https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/sdge/?camera=Axis-SanMiguelSouth
AA501, T70, T71 responding
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Super Bizarre start pattern if you replay the video.
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Believe this is the Border 27. Just south of Otay Reservoir.
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1 hour shows at least 6 different starts at almost the same time.
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I just ran the same 1 hr. looks like multiple starts almost simultaneously. You’re right bizarre
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in that bench again west of Tecate peak
yeah, someone is setting those.
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IC has ordered 10 additional T3 engines, 2 crews and 2 WT’s and AA ordered 1 LAT and 2 copters
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Aircraft assigned: AA501, T70, T71, T72, T73, T139, C10, C12, HT-729, HT-73U
12:35- AA112 (trainee AA) coming on station to relieve AA501
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The near the bottom of Otay Truck Trail looking NE. That’s George Baily Detention Center on the ridge.
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IC says 40 acres with MROS
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Fire is burning on the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge; 40 acres, MROS, medium fuels, more than likely will go extended.
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Extremely strange. Reminds me of PSD starts.
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In my BLM days we responded to a desert fire that was started by a military plane dropping flares.
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Not strange at all. Its standard practice of coyotes/international travelers to start fires as a distraction to get CBP to one area so they can operate unopposed for a short time in another location.
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I went back and watched the lapse again. Looks like 7 different starts and almost all exactly at 1130. Seems very coordinated as some of them looks to be at least 800-1200’ apart
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The first sign of smoke is at 11:15:18 on the SDG&E Alert time lapse - right in the very bottom right corner. And, yes, by 11:30:48 the camera pulls back and we can see what looks like 6+ starts.
Edited to add - 11:31:49 there’s one more in the lower right:
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This has been the norm this year along the border. There has been a lot of international travelers coming across the border. There has been a lot of nights/early mornings when border patrol has found dozens and dozens of “camp fires / warming fires”. This will continue to be an issue throughout the summer and fall when fuel moistures are at their lowest.
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Reminds me 96/97 when Border Patrol started Operation Gate Keeper, tons of fires along the border. Had a permanent Helibase set up at Dulzura Station.
Cal Fire contracted a CessnaO2 with FLIR to fly the border at about 4 am. Each heat detection was GPS’ed and off we went checking them. Maybe it’s time to do that again!!!
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Yeah but this one couldn’t be “camp fires” from illegals. There were several, small, simultaneous starts. Even if that was a coyote distraction operation, I’m impressed that they did several at one time some distance apart. That’s not normal.
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Any history of drones dropping devices there?
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