Structure fire at the mill in Weed, into the vegetation, already crossed 97 in the Lincoln Heights area.
This thing really took off
Should be SKU
200 ac dangerous rate of spread. Multiple homes already involved.
Req 15 Charlie’s strike team
8 gulf 6 to the incident
20 dozer
25 wt
-scanner
No divert
This is an example of “critical” rate of spread. I don’t mean that to sound over-simplified. This truly is a rate of spread that is critical to life safety.
“The neighborhood is on fire”-SO
Can anyone add a feed for CMD 10?
Command 10 is on this feed:
Here’s another good cam:
https://beta.alertwildfire.org/region/shastamodoc/?camera=Axis-Weed
The fire has reached the 2600 block of Hoy Rd (near Jackson Ranch Rd) which is approx 2.5 miles north of the origin. 5 addl ambulances requested w/ reported burn victims, medical triage being set up at Mercantile Mall. Structure loss ongoing.
They are issuing evacuation for the entire town of Lake Shastina
SLU punching out a Type 3 strike team now. Sounds like the CZU cover team is being the one utilized.
Staging area is Cal Fire in Weed for incoming units
Mod Note: We have two Q&D threads for this incident. Going to merge into 1, which is going to scramble the time sequence a bit, apologies for that, but it is what we have to work with at this time.