5 acres running up the South side of Otay Mtn. Additional units are responding from Chula Vista and Sand Diego.
Some smoke showing here.
https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/sdge/?camera=Axis-Otay1
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Cal Fire B-3 is Border IC. Fire is now 10 acres MROS. Access is along the Border Road up Otay Mtn.
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Fire is beginning to spot and is terrain driven up hill. Containment objective is to keep the fire south and west of Otay TT.
Intel 24 is en-route for a mapping mission.
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I don’t see the normal marine layer coming in tonight so this might cause some issues throughout the evening. Only good thing so far is it didn’t start 7-8 hours ago…
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Fire is 15 acres, IC did order some crews and water tenders for day shift tomorrow.
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Nasty country, not really safe to insert crews at night, if it’s coming out of tin can canyon it should bump the road to White Cross, very light fuels. If can also bump the BLM road, If it’s north of the border road in or around Copper Canyon best wait till sunrise to engage.
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Agreed, it looks like on the map the Incident is North of the Border Rd, and South and West of the intersection of Otay TKTL and Monument 20 TKTL.
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The south side is no joke at night, steep, rocky with lots of loose rock. Best to get aircraft up early, and hope the marine layer moves in later.
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Nasty, ugly times
Yea, remember laying 4,000’ hose at midnight in the fog into a small 1/2 acre fire in Cooper Canyon. Lots of steep rocky terrain and had many spots downhill. Then about 3am wind switched to east and we lost it before sunrise with down canyon winds.
Believe that was back in 1975, 5 engines retreated to the east as the fire overran the Otay TT. AA couldn’t see fire at 0800 under 3,000’ marine layer. I think final Otay Fire acreage was near 2,500 after three days.
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Day shift: 9 engines, 4 crews, 2 water tenders, and 2 DIVS.
CMD: XSM CMD 3
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nasty country back in Tin Canyon a, the way up to the Roosevelt Fence.
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Caltopo has last nights heat plotted on the lower left of this map. Zoom in for more details.
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I see two starts on a bit wider map view. One east of the cam site and one west of the cam site. Both along the border.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=32.59333,-116.82398&z=13&b=t&o=f16a%2Cr&n=1,0.25&a=mba%2Cfire%2Cmodis_mp
Oaty2 Cam has the East fire:
https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/sdge/?camera=Axis-Otay2
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Looks like down in the flats just East of Cottonwood creek, big ole steep nob on the east side. Stay out of the Tijuana River!!!
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