Lat/Lon 41 20.130, -121 4.542 (puts it SW of Canby and NW of Adin at around 5237 ft)
Latest Spot: https://www.weather.gov/spot/php/forecast.php?snumunum=2009794.0&lat=41.29932756157186&lon=-120.85377580992697&z=10
Initial resources: DIV4 E65 E8561
Fairly active when I passed it along the 299 last night around 2100. From what I could see, maybe 20 acres?
As reported, just a few miles outside of Adin (east) on the north side of the 299. From what I could see, a mix bag of local, state, and fed resources staged off the highway.
Looks like 10 jumpers on it this morning.
Allen fire on the modoc? Can’t find much about it supposedly 950 acres and 3 separate fires?
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CAIIMT 12 assigned to this fire. In Brief tomorrow at 1300hrs in Alturas.
Stay warm!
How many acres now ?
NOPS has it as 800 acres and O% contained.
This fire is being complexed along with the Caldwell and Canyon incidents…MDF-July Complex
Looks like Caldwell is being thrown in as well. 12,000 acres (per sit report).
Any pending orders for any of it?
There maybe a 0 too much. North Ops at 0720 had it at 1500 acres.
From MDF, the number of downstrikes over the Forest.
The afternoon has been the typical aircraft organized chaos of a lightning complex. Scoopers working out of Clear Lake Reservoir (Natl Wildlife Refuge) and bouncing between (map links) Caldwell, Allen and Dalton.
LATs out of KFalls and Redding, VLATs out of Medford (T944 out of KMCC), S2’s reloading out of Chester, SEATS out of KFalls and Lakeview. MAFFS04 working out of Redding. MAFFS06 still at KMCC. The Natl Flight Following headset at North Ops is smokin’
something to be said for great AA’s to handle it.
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/41.3568/-121.1035/14 (Allen)
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/41.6988/-121.48/15 (Caldwell)
Caldwell is very active, according to NWS Medford. From a tweet 17 minutes ago:
“We’re monitoring a scary situation for the #firefighters of the Caldwell #Fire. The smoke has developed into a “pyrocumulus” and has been generating lightning strikes for the last couple of hours. It will likely continue to do so until sunset.”
Gold and Caldwell really showing hot on GOES17 IR.