@Jimw360
Some S-2’s and copters were diverted to the SKU-Bailey fire on Bailey Hill Road north of Hornbrook a while ago. They’ve been released and returned.
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Based on the width of the column and the satellite heat signature, I wouldn’t be surprised if it runs 15 miles in this burning period. With the exception of Castle Crags, the West side of the Canyon has scattered clearcuts and young stands that are highly receptive to spots, all the way to Mount Shasta City. Heads up, Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta!
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There is a dry line and associated upper level disturbance sitting on top the area. Fires like vertical lift and an unstable atmosphere just like thunderstorms
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The cumulus build up reached an altitude of 40,000 ft today, weather over the last 3 days has reached over 100 degrees in the valley bottom and single digit RH’s. The PIG for today was 90-100 in unshaded fuels with a FDFM of only 3%…it didn’t take much for this thing to come to life
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The only I’m seeing is ROSS as of now is 5 pending immediate need T2 strike teams…which I find odd…could be a typo…
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I am a little south of you, I thought we would get a call to our mutual aid coordinator. I am sure it will come in at 02:00 like always.
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At least 0200 if not later 
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OES engines are technically Type 2, other than their obvious Type 3 engines. Not sure how they’re typed in ROSS.
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Yea I get that part…its just an odd to see request for T2, use to seeing T1, T3 or T6. Cant speak for the other regions, but here in ol Reg IV our T3 OES engines are only typed in ROSS as T3 and not T2…
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Well, all sorts of contingency line was put in for both, might be a “good stroke”to start looking at using it…
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That is exactly what I and my trainee was doing tonight. We will start pushing a lot of iron tomorrow to tie it into the intestate in the area of Sims
Here is a map that uses the final fireline data from Carr and Hirz to show completed dozer lines and burned area. There may be other dozer lines on private lands that are missing from this dataset.
Dozer line shown in WHITE, Carr and Hirz burned areas shown in dark blue.
The MODIS data from last night was way off - it showed the fire way out to the West, almost 5 miles past where IR flight caught it.
Weather forecast last night expected an inversion to develop today around 2,000’ elevation, trapping smoke in the lower elevation areas for most of the day, and making it hard to get recon and retardant drops. Conditions are supposed to be unstable in the afternoon, and when the inversion breaks, it should be back off to the races again.
My concern for the fire it that it is going to hop, skip, and jump right thru all of those clearcuts on the West side of I-5. The clearcuts are just basically spotfire magnets, and they are so dry and exposed to the surface winds the spots are 20 acres and torching into the next uncut stand before you can say ‘Type 1 Helicopter’.
I’ll be updating maps here and on the Deer Creek Resources Facebook page. Deer Creek is not officially assigned to this fire, but fire mapping is what we do, and big fires like this in our backyard are worth talking about.
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Pyro…
You are the best!
I know that you are addicted to this intel stuff, but thanks for all of the hard work.
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Looking at the IR someposted in the ia thread did this already burn into one of the neighboring fires
I believe you are seeing type 2 requests due to the fact that is the majority of the equipment available in that geographic area, between Siskiyou and Lassen
And not to mention, easier to staff. 4/0 puts a strain on smaller departments
I went to bed wondering how the Sugarloaf radio site would fair. The last reading on the Sugarloaf RAWS was ESE 5G12. At least it would be flanking fire.
Now, if we are to believe MODIS/VIIRS hits, this thing took that ESE wind and ran. There’s a lot going on in the IR/MODIS/VIIRS combo below. What blew outside the IR on the Hirz fire? (it’s a firing op) The heat over in the east fork of the Trinity River? As pyrogeography mentioned, three of those hits are really low confidence, and one is 85% confidence level so take that as is.
It’s a firing operation trying to cut the head off on the east side
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Thanks! Good to know there’s already good fire on the ground. Forgot there’s already established crews and resources on the Hirz that can just turn around and take care of business so fast in an IA period.