New fire in the timber on Fenders Ferry Road, between McCloud River and Pitt River, north of Lake Shasta.
Building steadily, in an area with very little fire history, poor access.
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Is there any major resource requests yet
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Watch Duty says 20 engines, 4 crews, 2 dozers, 3 water tenders. It’s a long way back into that area, and there are very few roads for engines to work off of. They be ordering more crews and dozers before long, I’m thinking. And likely a team, looking at the growth. Looking at the rest of the west, there aren’t a lot of crews to go around…
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Ok thank you
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Terrible access long drive times on logging roads have road quads back in there little fire history I think the closest fire was the Bagley Fire
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Yes, Bagley Fire was to the north, 2012 (blue).
Hirz Fire burned to the west in 2018 (blue).
The red fires on this map are from the 1920s and 30s.
The ownership across much of this area is checkerboarded because of the history of the railroad getting built thru the Sacramento River Canyon / I-5 corridor back in the day. This ownership pattern ends up standing out pretty starkly when you look at the aerials of what the Bagley Fire area looks like on pvt vs public lands (private lands were clearcut slavaged and herbicided before replanting).
Hopefully the 10 year-old plantations on pvt ground in Bagley aren’t full of pre-commercial thinning slash if the fire gets there.
Watch Duty’s Cal Fire IR map shows the fire is across the drainage and spotting to the north.
There is a lot of black oak in this area, and the conifer forest is not very continuous. Rates of spread aren’t going to be as severe as you’d expect if it was continuous mixed conifer, but the bad access means it’s gonna chew steadily til the sun goes down.
The forecast is for much better humidity recovery and lower nighttime temps, though, and in this fuel type, we could get a lot of good fire effects under these conditions.
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Intel12 mapped at 199 acres.
Also, this is a SHF incident.
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The fire has now been mapped at 200 acres by FIRIS Intel 12. Incident Command has requested Evacuations for the area of Madrone Campground and structures North of the Campground
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I’ve put the Northern Sacramento Valley Fire feed on broadcastify into SHF incident mode. This puts the UHF link of the Forest Net on top priority (which hears the entire forest,) with AG43 and AT64 as second and third priority for now. The rest of the daily scan lineup is off priority but still in the background.
Someone remind me tomorrow I’ll update air freqs when I get them, and/or any command net changes.
Also, 3 night helo ordered up for tonight. 3 LAT’s inbound from SoCal.
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Ugh, trick or treating on the Shasta T.
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Can someone please elaborate on why it showed CAL FIRE tankers enroute and then abruptly turn around S of the incident?
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They’ve been there the whole time.
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I looked at all the aircraft tracks, and I don’t see any aircraft turning around. There are aircraft starting to circle the incident, but no abrupt turns in the tracking. If there was though, it would likely be because they had not yet made positive comms with air attack to enter the fire traffic area.
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Shoe IC resource request for 0700 tomorrow per radio traffic:
4-T2IA or better crews
3-Water tenders-tactical preferred
5-Type 3 engines
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Good luck finding crews. California Type 2IA crews are scattered from North Dakota and Wyoming to Idaho and SoCal.
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1740 update: fire is currently about 300 acres. IC and Air Attack have drawn a box to contain this at roughly 2500-3000 acres. If they can’t keep the box, it’ll become a large incident.
Coulson and PJ CH47’s moving up the valley for night ops.
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As I’ve said in the past “early in the season and late in the season they’re glad to see the Red ECVs pull up”
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We have quite a few “hiding” here in So Cal. The LPF, ANF, BDF and CNF are strategically using them on our various little fires for this exact reason.
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There were 2 IHC’s on the ENF from other forests today, that headed to the Shoe
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CIMT ordered. Team 13
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