AA reports acreage between 1500-1600. Covered alot of ground this afternoon.
The fire is making a huge run towards Running Springs Road
6 water tenders, 2 type 3 strike teams, and 2 type 1 strike teams being requested. If current winds hold, structures will be impacted in an hour. AA also wants a second VLAT if he can get it.
And…She gone.
Ops advising IC the fire made a slope reversal and is pushing hard towards structures, asking for a no divert on 4 Tankers for expected structure and life threat.
Second VLAT approved and en-route from Medford…T911.
First impact to structures now in 10-15 at Rock Canyon and Johnson. Inserting type 1’s now.
Also requested specifically 10 RRU type 1’s for Terwiliger structure group. Fire is pushing hard per Ops.
Tac VFire23 154.295 mhz for structure group.
Per AA, believed to have reached 2000-2100 acres.
1938 acres per FIRIS, they have a 40 acre slop on one of the shoulders, hitting it hard with 5 helicopters.
AA has released the no divert.
Has placed some tankers on a hold
Order for tomorrow at 08:00: 1 AA, 1 LEAD, 1 HELCO, 2 S2 AT’s, 2 LAT’s, 1 VLAT, 6 T1 Helo’s, 2 T2 Helo’s, 2 T3 Helo’s
T-911 inbound from Helena, over Victorville now…
Fire activity picked back up, and tankers were relaunched. Tanker 03 is timed out for the day and is returning to Fresno.
Additional resources from CalFire are being pushed South from cover assignments due to this incident.
XLC1203A (E12 BRK, E13 BRK, E25 GLN E26 GLN, E36 PAS, STEN BC1 BRK, STEN-T BC3 PAS) punched out at 0500…
XSN2376-F STL: PTL-9301 ENG: SON-3357, MRO-5458, SCY-7556, PTL-9357 and CLO-6555.
9170C assigned to the fire.
OES Type 6 5802F out of Merced, Kings, Fresno & Kern Counties. Lunched 2100 last night, on Division Lima preparing for firing operations today.
Mapped at 2206 acres
I havent been good about posting data packages for TAK users this season outside my own agency. Bonny data is up at maps.takserver.us
080223 data package is up at maps.takserver.us
Today includes overlayy for IR flight and the perimter as two sep files.