And doubling the helicopter order for tomorrow
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Current acreage is 9,800
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Santa Barbara County has issued an evacuation warning for: East of the Rock Front Area, west of Cottonwood Canyon Rd, and south of Highway 166.
This fire has been averaging 1633 acres an hour.
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Some gusty winds up to 25 mph.
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rough 20 mile run from 166 to KCL campground on the Mounument where it looks like its coming out South of Soda Lake
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CACIMT8 on order in IROC (Fed Team)
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big updates on slo county evac orders:
SLC-226, SLC-264, SLC-265, SLC-299, SLC-312, SLC-337, SLC-338
big chunk of carrizo, all across to nearly the foothills of the temblors
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VNC Dozer 13 and 15 assigned.
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SLO has announced a Temporary Evacuation Point has been set up at the CA Valley CSD - 13080 Soda Lake Rd, Santa Margarita, CA 93453
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Scratchy but talking about a firing plan for soda lake road
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working on opening roads on the south side towards 156 and a firing plan for washburn back to goodwin ranch and a firing plan for 166? as well
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The fire has now been mapped at 35,530.4 acres by FIRIS Intel 24. (as of midnight).
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LPF-Madre extended frequencies assigned today
Air Tactics 166.600
Air/Ground 169.100
Air/Ground 167.8125
Victor 128.625 (also assigned TFR)
Victor 135.025
Two A/G’s so one is command and one is tac
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Weather concerns for today include… Mixing heights will be high enough to allow for plume dominated fire behavior, especially in the afternoon to early evening hours. Light winds in the morning will increase from the west, becoming gusty in the afternoon to evening with peak gusts between 20 to 25 mph.
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Winds in Santa Maria are picking up significantly. That’s where winds for the 166 corridor are generated, unless it’s a push from the Kern side. Heads on a swivel out there!
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The fire is now at 70,800.5 acres by CAL FIRE Intel aircraft.
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The airshow is focused on the northeast side along branch mountain road.
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I was told that the north east area of the fire made a hard run today. No info on how much acreage was involved.
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It’s up into the Pilitas Mountains on the north side. Bit of heat along 166 above the Chaulk Mountains. South pushed down the range into Caliente Mountains. According to the heat scans (VIIRS and MODIS).
The Caltopo has 3 hour old heat scans and map:
Just the south spread on 7/4 is 31 sections @ 640 acres each, estimate = 20k acres.
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