Its 230,000 acres now only 10% contained
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thats #7 on the list of largest Ca wildfires. did I mention it is only 10% contained
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Now its #5 largest in Ca history at 275,000 acres. No end in sight. Be safe out there brothers and sisters. Another 36 hours of potential thunderstorms and lightening are less than 24 hours away.
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Carp! Looks like it took out most of the Grant Ranch north of Mt. Hamilton Rd. My uncle and a few other doctors leased the hunting rights to that ranch. Old hunting club that ran from before WWII to 1974. I spent much of my summers all over there when I was a kid. First learned to drive on those roads in an old WWII Willeys jeep. 
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Interesting that ALCO put out this color coded map w/o a legend. Is RED the warning area? Or is YELLOW the warning area?
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Most maps have been red mandatory, yellow warning
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AA requesting 2 VLAT’s to the Intercept Point at Lick Observatory.
Some air show is underway.
Earlier AA was inquiring about the 8 tankers assigned to the incident.
The 8 tankers are MAFS that went for two round robins along with the 2 VLATS
Building some retardant line. I don’t know what part of the fire. Listening to 169.2875.
Load and hold at 15:10
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A map w/o a legend is…
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I was at the Grant Park and ranch last night. Fire was on the north side of 130, the park and home are all intact mostly burnt the grass and not much else.
following along with Flightradar24 website make it a lot easier to keep track of what’s dropping where.
Yesterday I found the two CL215s (radar tags of SCPR261 & SCPR262) working in Marin. They were there again today.
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Air Operation has discontinued due to low and heavy smoke out conditions. All Tankers released.
They were on Div. T
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August 24 press brief. link to video. Español al final.
also available through twitter.
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Large air show for retardant lines being built along south flank.
Yesterday and today:
3 VLAT’s , 2 LAT’s, 3 S2’s and Lead C2 and C1 and Several MAFS
Most drops are line building with an occasional cool down/check forward spread drop.
Freq remains the same 169.2875
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Large firing operation starting today in the SW portion of the fire.
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Yes, its showing on Holiday lake today,
http://www.alertwildfire.org/sierra/index.html?camera=Axis-HolidayLake2&v=81e004f
396,624 acres and 98% contained. Under patrol and suppression repairs.
Comes in second in size this year from the Mendocino Fires Complex.
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