How close is this to SRA?
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Maybe would have been a good idea yesterday am, when it was still just two acres and not doing much…
Or declared “Contained” the night before on Wildcad?
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Straight up and down Rotating column with a pyro on top.
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They need to put that out , that is beautiful country that doesn’t need to burn
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Fantastic view and photo-- what’s it look like currently?
This was a couple of hours ago - he hasn’t posted any since.
Sorry - thought you were talking about my post…
Not good. Just made a hard run north, rotation in the column, constant group tree torching for about the last 20 minutes. Compare the location of the fire in this photo to the previous one. Taken from exactly the same spot.
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Wow that’s got an impressive run north yeah. Read they’re pulling crews off the line because of hard push north. You can visibly see the fire spotting ahead of itself as it goes up the Volcano on the local fire cams. Definitely going to be 1,000+acres before long.
Great photograph btw! Thanks for share-- hope you can share more. These are some of the best photos I’ve seen from near the fire.
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AA made a great call in giving a heads up to Div A for the fire activity… great call…Div A moving crews to safety areas
all be safe out there
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LCES
Great article on LCES:
Remember it’s only late June and burning conditions will increase the risk to suppression crews. Resources are already stretched thin and tactical priorities may change.
WWA Summary by Location for 41.43N 122.37W with CAZ081/CAC093/CAZ281 emphasis Red Flag Warning
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Any idea what their trigger point is for unified command with CF? It’s pretty close to the SRA lines and with the expected growth today…
Thoughts from the sidelines RE: todays forecast, observations and local knowledge
Local knowledge of 3 significant fires have occurred within 2 miles of the current LAVA Inc, all while under a southern flow airmass. All three damaging infrastructure and or structures. One with significant losses. Point being; spread on the Lava for the last 48 hours has truly only been because of slope/fuel and diurnal flows. Todays forecast of low RH and South winds creates a potential for interesting spread and assets at risk. The Lava will be transitioning ( based on southern flow) downslope to the North, from scattered lava flows, boulder fields with scattered Pondo and manzanita… into continuous Manzanita and Juniper. Natural boundaries are limited to the Unions Pacific RR tracks, Highway 97(2 lane), of which the Hotlum Inc compromised by direct flame impingement in February of 2006, Ultimately the brush fields and Juniper are a continuous fuel bed leading directly into the 2 Shasta valley “sub-divisions” of Lake Shastina (population 3000+/-) and Shasta Vista. 2 other points which have both been touched on…
1.Fuel moistures, live and dead are all at or exceeding maximum/minimum recorded and provide for maximum ERC’s.
- The reason Abner Weed and Louisiana-Pacific Lumber built the mill in Weed, is because of the natural drying characteristics of the significant "notch " winds that blow through there regularly. Southern flow winds that are forced up the Sacramento Valley, squeezed into the Sacramento River drainage, ultimately being channeled between the western slope of Mt. Shasta and Eastern Slope of Mt. Eddy prior to spilling into the Shasta Valley via Weed, Ca.
1.Hotlum Incident
Prescribed fire escape, Feb 25 2006, 3000 acres with structure loss
2.Boles Incident
Arson, Sept 2014, 479 acres, 150 Structures lost
- Hoy fire Mid 2000’s,
Electrical failure, Several hundred acres, Minimal strucure loss, Lake Shastina
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That’s an excellent summary of the situation! Just one addition to your comments - Shasta Vista may now have a greater population than Lake Shastina. I’ve heard estimates ranging from 4000-5000 people, almost all living in unpermitted shanty’s with no water infrastructure on poorly maintained dirt roads. There are also very limited ingress/egress routes to that community.
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That area is pretty spread out, population wise. Lava rock, juniper and light grasses. One of those “why would anyone want to live out here?” areas. Lots of Marijuana grows.
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