Smoke showing on a new fire East of Otay Mountain along the Border. For now I don’t have any more info. Smoke visible in the area.
https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/sdge/?camera=Axis-Lyons2
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Probably the Barrett Fire near Hwy 94
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MVU is sending a full response
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Being called Border Fire, It’s a new fire.
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New Fire 1 ridge over from Barrett Junction fire in Marron Valley
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Copy that thanks for the clarification
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For the locals this is on XSD CMD 3 and Tac 5. Marron Valley and Barrett Truck Trail.
AA has 4 Tankers and 4 Copters on order.
Also just ordered 10 additional engines, and 2 additional Crews
Starting to throw up a dark building column.
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That’s not Marron Valley, that would be the west side of Tecate Peak possibly near Tank 3-7. Should be able to access it on the Barrett TT just after the Barrett Bridge
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Tankers 70, 71, 72, 100, 162 and 169 all assigned. An OCFA Intel ship is also enroute to the fire.
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INTEL-24 12 min eta
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Tanker 160 is enroute to the fire now from San Bernardino.
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Calling it Boarder 13, 30 acres with a moderate rate of spread.
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250 acres. 0%containment. Apparently multiple victim rescues have happened. Stay safe!
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Intel just mapped at 516 acres .Intel just sent an update that the fire is 577 acres.
Intel also advised the head is very active and is 1.5 miles from impacting HWY 94.
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Saw the aircraft flight tracking map in the IA thread.
Is it unusual for firefighting aircraft to orbit into Mexico air space? Just a general knowledge question for me.
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FC3363 would be the person to ask I believe.
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That is the safest route of travel through the fire traffic area. The ATC US and Mexico are in contact as well as the CAL FIRE ECC, Mexican Conuslate, Customs, Etc. There is a Border Operations Plan that is exercised frequently with great cross border training and relationships (just met last week). With the terrain there are no other options. Typically, there is no retardant dropped on the Mexico side, but if need be and warranted, the agreement and check boxes would go into play.
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Aircraft will orbit just south of the border if need be, seen it done so many times, we have done drops just on the other side of the border fence to slow a fire heading into the US, but mostly it gets laid on the north side.
Both of my engines carried everything needed to start the process to enter Mexico.
Good prime example of Cal Fire orbiting into Mexico would be the south side of Otay Mountain as the border is a quarter way up the mountain.
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