1am: night time air recon! 77HS flying over the entire incident and now reporting a 50+ acre rapid rate of spread NEW START between Brownsville and Collins Lake. Google Map. Already spotting ahead of itself.
Oregon House cam has this start, and Rattlesnake.
AA updated dangerous rate of spread 100+ acres, long range spotting, will impact Sugarloaf/Los Verjeles Rd and LaPorte road in the next couple hours.
Lexington Hill2 is quite an impressive sight! Lexington Hill2
Also shows new start far left.
Judging by AA’s orbit the new start looks to be right at the T intersection in Oregon House
Moving the new start to NEU West, Tac 2 and CalFire A/G 3.
OP’s is reporting 160,000 acres. No IR flight last night.
Interesting
Planning meetings have always been and should in my opinion be private limited access meetings. Things are discussed and negotiated that could be misinterpreted by outsiders.
New calculation by team is putting it closer to 230,000 acres.
They’re saying the 24 hour growth is 230k, on top of the existing 40k.
Was watching the fire menacingly coming for Kelly Ridge on the CalParks cam then it went dead. The roads were clogged red with traffic as thousands of people streamed out of the foothills. Even staged dozers to clear abandoned cars if it came to that. Lots of just plain heroics last night with public safety personnel risking their lives to go in and get people out who could not evacuate on their own. Reminded me a lot of the chaotic evacuation of Paradise in 2018.
There were a lot of Camp 2018 learned lessons being utilized on the fire and SAR side of things yesterday and late into the night. The dozers, the evacs, early LE mutual aid, comm setups, etc. Strong work out there.
Does anyone know the status of Camp Okizu?
There was an engine there when the fire front went through. They didn’t talk about any damage.
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Looking active already…Has the fire made it to the west side of the lake or is it still making its way around?
http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-SunsetHill1&v=81e004f
South end of Paradise being evacuated
Paradise has issued an evacuation warning, not a call to evacuate according to the BCSO facebook page.
There is an evacuation warning for zone 14 which is the east side if Pentz road. Unless you have some sort of intel that you can share there are no evacuations currently in Paradise.
Yellow warning for the south edge of Paradise.
