State ID: CA
3 letter designator: NEU
Fire name: Iowa
Location: Cape Horn Road near Old Loggers Road
Reported acres:
Rate of spread:
Report on Conditions:
Structure threat:
Resources: Tanker 88, 100, 102
Hazards:
Weather:
Radio channels:
Scanner link:
Webcam link: http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-JonesRidge&v=fd40731
http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-HowellMtn1&v=fd40731
Agency Website:
Also on Howell Mtn. 1. Tanker 88, 100, 102 all at scene within the last few min.
CA-NEU-Iowa
Cape Horn Road near Old Loggers Road, near yesterday’s Ravine incident
LAT over incident. Difficult access. Evacs on trail ridge lane
Resources responding from river incident. Per AA need 2 hand crews, Division Juliette
Per YubaNet at 1248: “The fire is approximately 0.7 air miles south from yesterday’s Ravine Fire. Still burning at a moderate rate of spread in heavy brush. Large Air Tankers on scene, Tanker 102 dropping now.”
Per AA
T102, load and hold at MCC
Sounded like a large resource order went in.
Multiple mandatory evacuations and warnings issued
Releasing AT 100, 102, 88, and 15, all on load and hold at their respective bases
Per PCSO
Mandatory evacuation orders; all of Robbers ravine to Cape Horn, Cape Horn out to Cape Horn East Dusty Road, Old Logger lane and Hide Out way. Entire neighborhood of Cape Horn South to I80.
Did the fire pick back up?
Reported as new start. 0.7 miles away
New start, Nevada City, Purdon Rd.
Any info started on it yet
Nothing yet. AA17. Assigned. Reported as a 20 x 20 spot, multiple reports
Edit: 1/4 acre, held up on the road. Any more and I will start a new thread
Per Purdon IC, one drop across Purdon rd. holding all resources staging dozer at Newtown. Requested one WT Nevada Co, cancel North San Juan unit
Sounded like Batalion 1 released IC back to Captain (original IC) and released 2 engines to staff Station 20.
Pee IC, 4 engines will become available, once WT arrives
All evacuations were lifted just after 16:00. Great stop and nice to see them hit it hard from the air, and then have enough local resources to get it contained. Final stats per Yubanet