https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/southeastbay/?camera=Axis-HighlandPeak
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Started IA thread
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Approx 70 acres. Fire running to Grantline.
IC added 2 more engines. 1 more dozer. 2 more tankers. And the EU Copter out of LNU
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95% grass fuel model and there’s a reason there is a wind farm on the ridges. Makes for rapid spread.
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Every day there. Nothing out of the norm.
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I have seen fires in that area and they can run. The wind is always going. Any local info on recovery for tonight?
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Should be in the 50-60’s RH tonight. Decent recovery. Most of the fires in the Altamont Area don’t make it ok this page as they are almost a daily occurrence, defiantly weekly.
East to kick off 500 acres and be in bed by midnight there. Good firing show and tanker land.
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Like 925 said, Daily if not weekly occurrence. As soon as the fire hits a road or freeway she’s done. But until then, she runs fast and hot.
We had one not to long ago by Tracy Hills, started as a car fire into the grass. Ran for 70+ acres and we were back well before dinner.
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Per FIRIS mapped at 174 acres.
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In the late 60’s and early 70"s we used to chase them into the canal.
In those days the Deputy Ranger (BC today) was Fred Terwilliger (Mike’s Dad).
He wouldn’t use airtanker in the Altamont. He thought it wasn’t worth the cost.
He was probably correct. That was before the Wind Farm infrastructure was built.
If you did mobile attack from Flynn Road to the canal you sometimes didn’t have to run PT’s the next morning. There was a pretty good chance you would run almost the same distance for a fire in the Midway that next afternoon. 
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Yep, that was true. But when BC Martin took the area, he sent aircraft on IA. His reasoning was there was alot of money lost for ranchers. Could make it a profitable year or not.
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Mikey was right on that.
First time I saw fire “sheeting” across the grass was Altamont.
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2020 PDT All resources released from incident per ICP
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