Bear Fire about 1K now and getting established in the Middle Fork as per AA prior to outbound…
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The Fire Train is very effective I’ve actually worked on the fire train before off the Feather River on Highway 70. It was during the the Butte Lighting Complex. We supported a burn operation. They are there to protect railroad infrastructure and the train has hand lines and a water monitor with 65,000 gallons. Very effective unit.
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IR Maps for the Claremont and Sheep, from around midnight. Looks like they both burned actively through the night.
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What a great tool. Would like to see those utilized more
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Reduced mandatory evacs for East Quincy to Advisory only…
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Here is imagery made from last night’s infrared flights. 8/27/2020 around 8pm. Yellow areas are scattered heat, and red areas are intense heat.
Data source: NIROPS.
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One of the strategical possibilities mentioned by Operations of the North Complex was to let the Claremont and Bear burn together in the Middle Fork. Looking at the map I would tend to guess that strategy is being implemented…
If that is the case, this incident will be ongoing until the rains come…
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With all the backing and flanking, we should get some great fire effects.
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Was looking OK down there from the last fire about 20 ears ago around Clegghorn Bar. Should clean it up quite well now…
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Claremont Fire pushed out to the West yesterday spotting 1/4 mi.+ over the lines. Trying to tie it in with the Dozer lines connecting to the Bear Fire. Area of concern marked with red X…
Here are some initial fire severity images for the North Complex Fires, plus the Hog Fire, in Lassen County, created from Sentinel satellite data captured 9/1/2020. These maps have not been ground-truthed. Green areas are generally unburned or low-moderate severity. Red areas generally have no living foliage remaining. Orange shows active burning.
Imagery credit Deer Creek GIS, Chico, CA.
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Thanks for the simple explanation. For those of us that didn’t have satellite technology in our time, a quick explanation to get us up to speed is great. Thanks again for what you do.
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Thank you. Having such quick turnaround on imagery is a treat. We used to have to wait a week or three for LANDSAT scenes to be available, and then spend half a day making the image. Having fresh imagery available every few days is amazing. The Sentinel bird goes over often enough sometimes you luck out and get a snapshot of something extraordinary like the Camp Fire’s initial run.
The LNU Complex is one of the first fires we have been able to use this imagery operationally. It was useful in planning firing ops and understanding where the big islands of unburned were.
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The Bear/Claremont Fires are blowing up, big time.
Some modeling we have been looking at suggests the Bear Fire could reach Merrimac, near Brush Creek under severe conditions, which is what we’ve got. People in Berry Creek should also be keeping their eyes open. Sounds like La Porte is being evacuated, as are other towns on La Porte Road.
http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-LexingtonHill
http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-JarboGap
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Zeke, Wish I could be there with you and go after those rascal fires.