All fixed wing are doing spot structure protection drops. MCC just dumped out two more LATs. No rotor up yet.
A few more weather stations to give the good picture.
PGE Bear Mtn is right at the head of the fire now at 0930.
PGE High Line Trail to the east of the fires in the foothills, showing the easterly downslope winds that is shearing the column off @Tornadokat mentioned. ENE 5G16
PGE Palo Duro is south of the head, in the middle of the WUI just south of Hwy299. N 8G21
TNKR131 (C-130) being loaded in Redding, TNKR15 (BAE 146) enroute from Sac, ETA 3 minutes.
Add: TNKR102 (MD-87) from Sac 2 minute ETA.
Add: TNKR162 (RJ-85) from Sac ETA 3-4 minutes as of 9:58 am.
Add T914 and T912, and two scoopers just pre-positioned to Chico. First rotor appears to be an S64 out of Chico, just about 10min out. C205 was on IA last night, still at Vina this morning.
Evac info is very fluid, anyone in the area needs to be paying attention. Here’s one I received. This area includes Shasta College.
1230pm: The spots from this morning at 430am in upper Stillwater drainage became well established and is currently blowing out the canyon to the south, racing below Shasta Bear Lookout and camera, coming into Bear Mtn Rd at Jennifer, and setting up for Intermountain Rd in alignment. VLATs dropping well ahead of this above Jennifer in hopes to slow it and give ground resources a chance to catch up. That entire drainage is in perfect alignment with the winds.
Is Your Radio Up For The Fawn?
ST 4220 C formed and headed out, guessing for this incident
These are back to back frames from the Bear Mtn cam. I believe the flames are in the shadow of the water falling.
Looks like Bear Mountain and Highline feeds are both dead as of 13:10
Shasta College began evacuation at approx 12:48 pm.
Fire started to push harder to west in past hour. Here is a SWAG map at 1pm, with 1200 perimeter in white.
That’s a lot of movement.
Latest evac warning issued at approx 1:46 pm:
@ShastaSheriff
#FawnFire The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office is issuing an Evacuation WARNING for all roads west of Interstate 5 to the railroad tracks, south of Bass Dr to Old Oregon Trail. Please gather important belongings, medications, and pets and be prepared to evacuate.
Cal Fire Team 4 being activated
Really looks like they might be losing structures. The Shasta Lake 2 cam has multiple stationary dark columns that appear might be structures.
ALERTWildfire | Shasta Modoc
