CA-SCU-Lightning

That’s the Stanley Incident. Contra Costa sending a full response. CONFIRE Battalion 2 reporting 2 acres. Slow ROS.

Knock down on the Stanley fire.

From the top of Mt Vaca looking south

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Lafayette .

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They are now calling the Marsh Creek fires the deer complex. 3 fires so far.

Something new on Mt Oso:
http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-Oso&v=81e004f

Fire on Mt Osos camera, which makes it Del Puerto Canyon is concerning, bad spot
Sound like Coyote Ridge and Henry Coe have several fires also

Del Puerto Canyon fire is becoming well established.

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That’s not good at all, hoping they would get some drops on it and some dozer line around it.

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106 flying it, potential for 1000 acres

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Looks like name will be “Oso Incident”
https://www.weather.gov/spot/php/forecast.php?snumunum=2010966.0&lat=37.51789751670543&lon=-121.41967672666544&z=12

Don’t forget what happened in 2003 with the lightning complex that came through here. #DevilFire 55 shelter deployments. Stay safe everyone. Late night hours produce RH drops and wind shifts deep in the range.

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Spot on remember that my command team was deployed there. San Jose state weather department did a study on this sudden drop of rh

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Here are some heat detection maps from VIIRS data captured about 1500, today, 8/16/2020.


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#MarshFire off Arroyo Hondo Rd and Oakridge Rd, northeast of Milpitas in Santa Clara county is 600 acres.
CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit

#DeerZoneFires off Deer Valley Rd and Marsh Creek Rd, southwest of Brentwood in Contra Costa county are 400 acres total.
CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit

#CanyonZoneFires (multiple fires) off Del Puerto Canyon, northwest of Patterson in Stanislaus county are 620 acres.
CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit

CAL FIRE IMT 6 and ECCST Assigned.

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Sounds like there may be a new fire in the area of 6500 Calaveras Rd. in the Sunol area. Sending in a TF to ascertain the situation.

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New Start. HWy580xNorth Flynn

580 N Flynn done deal. 1 acre. LG only.
Yes new start this morning in the Calaveras area. Handling with area resources. No additional resources needed.

Per calfire, the canyon zone fires are either 10,000 acres total per Facebook post or the largest of 6 fires is 10,000 acres per calfire website https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/16/canyon-zone-fire/

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