New start, 30-40 acres, MROS. structures threatened.
between Newtown rd. And south Yuba river
https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/tahoe/?camera=Axis-BarrRanch
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Seems to be some confusion over the incident name - Per Grass Valley, Combining all to stay with “Pleasant”
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They apparently had bad intel and thought it was on the other side of the river but it is definitely Jones Bar / Owl Creek / McKitrick Ranch Rd area and no additional fires and quite some time has elapsed to discover any other fires by now.
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Evacuation Orders
McKitrick Ranch Road
Lost Ranch way and red tail hawk road
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Scanner link
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NCO -EO75 prepare to evacuate.
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Holding at 60-70 acres. 7 water tenders on site, 2 additional ordered.
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Aug 20th at 3:34 PM
Per AA - 70 Acres, High potential for spotting and outflanking. Retardant up the right flank (south side)
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Glad I got the weather read to me during this fire…
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According to this map it’s called the #owlfire MAP: https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6dc469279760492d802c7ba6db45ff0e&query=USA_Wildfires_v1_5644,UniqueFireIdentifier,2022-CANEU-022938
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Latest estimate puts the fire at 100 acres. Flareups continue.
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This area is one of the worst places for a fire next to Yuba County at the same elevations that I can think of. The Jones fire of 2 years ago should be a good buffer to the east but otherwise it is steep and brushy and bad roads in a lot of it. Looks like they are hanging onto it from the camera. The area where it has burned thus far is pretty populated with some roads and clearing but if it exits that area it could get interesting.
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Firis mapping puts it at 47 acres
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Wow, they got a lot of water tenders there early. That’s planning a head.
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The first BC was ordering a bunch of WTs, strike teams and single increments even before anybody had really figured out how to get onto the fire. It sounded pretty efficient, he was staying ahead of the curve so if it went big they would be on the road to meet the need I guess.
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Tankers were putting in work before any ground resources could get there. Awesome video @ALERTWildfire
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Love that turnaround time from GV and MCC. Makes a huge difference from what I’ve been seeing, especially with the type 1’s and LATS
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It certainly seems that way. They had a MD80 and a C130 on this right away. Years ago it would have been S2s only for quite a while. They also had 3 S2s working this at the same time.
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Between that and the fact that we have 36WL, 514, and 516 (with Vina in the vicinity), makes that air game strong. Good mix AND use of all available assets
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Does the state have more air resources than last year? It sure seems that they are able to catch all these fires in the first burning period. They are doing a great job keeping them small…
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