CA-SHF-Lava

AA is advising fire is going to make a hard push North.
Division A is pushing folks back down the line.

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I can say with a fair amount of certainty this will be a rather long extended-attack incident. This area has not seen significant fire activity since at least the 1920’s, we have short range spotting and crowning runs-- and now a Red Flag Warning for tomorrow? Yeah, this may very likely be the first major fire of the season.

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T912 has made its way up from the cool southern California beaches and is approaching the FTA.

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Fire has switched directions and is now burning well.

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Weed cam:

http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-Weed&v=fd40729

Soda Ridge 2:

http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-SodaRidge2&v=fd40729

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Read it is 710 acres and 25% contained

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ventusky shows 12 mph gust in area

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Impressive wind shift over the last 15 minutes on the Shastina cam. You can see the column shift as the mountain becomes shaded.

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looks like the wind may be shifting into a different direction again. From the Shastina Web Cam it looks like it is getting a westerly push on it now.

Looks like some spots burning on the north side, but it does look like the wind shifted… again…

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Last night’s IR has it at 1446 acres. From the cameras, it looks like it continued to burn actively and chew through ground all night.

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Red Flag Warning over the fire area from 8 am to 9 pm today, Haines of 6. Forecast winds from the south 10-20 with gusts to 35.

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ080&warncounty=CAC093&firewxzone=CAZ280&local_place1=Etna%20CA&product1=Red+Flag+Warning&lat=41.4569&lon=-122.8936

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WX stations for the area and 0845 conditions

  • UPRR MP349 - right on fire perimeter, or inside the perimeter now. 77F SSW3G9
  • APRS D6273 - personal WX station on northern end of Lake Shastina, 80F SSW1G3
  • RAWS Bolam - just northeast of incident, near Military Pass Rd at the tracks, good indicator of winds wrapping around from the east/downslope. 85F ENE7G16
  • PacificCorp North Weed - on Hoy Road, today’s left flank if this thing moves. 78F 43RH Calm
  • RAWS Weed Airport - more exposed station west of incident. 86F 32RH E3G6
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Bolam raws @ 1000 hours. 16%rh 92 degrees and 22mph gusts. Not good. Have a feeling it’s going to get pretty western out there today.

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Evacuation orders going into place.
North side of Hoy Road, North along Highway 97 to County Road A-12, Communities of Lake Shastina and Juniper Valley off Big Springs Road From Highway 97 to McDonald lane on both east and west sides of Big Springs Road.

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One of the Strike teams is pulling units back to a TRA to reassess. Looks like it making a hard run right now.

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Talking about a 50 acre spot, not sure where at.
They are attempting to hold the fire at highway 97.

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Pyro got huge in the last ~30 minutes. Almost looks like the volcano is blowing from this vantage.

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Significant spotting issues of the fire on the northern side, pulling some crews off the line to safer areas temporarily. Hwy 97 now closed by CHP from Hwy 265.

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