Some of residents who were allowed to go home in Burrough valley got to see what a helitorch can do in a short amount of time, caused a little worry until people saw the press release. Last time that section of Burrough mountain burned was when a friend was running a prescribed burn on the east side of the fuel break.
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280,425 @ 30% containment via the inciweb evening update. Surpassed the Cedar Fire in acreage. Seventh largest wildfire in CA history. Five of the seven are 2020 fires.
Bunch of helicopters working this afternoon in support of the Div C burn operation.
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283,724 @ 30% Containment. The Creek fire now moves to the sixth largest fire in modern recorded CA history.
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Creek AA ordered 1 Lead and 2 LATs to Div.S
Bullfrog requesting that once Div.S is completed to have those tankers re enforce
Div. A the north line of this fire.
2 Additional LATS requested for retardant line building on Bullfrog.
MAFS 1 and 6 enroute at 14:40. T160 and 40 have been running round robin out
of Fresno FAT for 2 hours.
Working north and NE lines.
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All air tankers released off bobcat and no targets are visible due to dense ground smoke on Creek.
Retardant line completed to help hold north flank of bobcat.
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Creek AA new request 18:00:
1 Lead, 2 VLATS, 4 LATS to the Creek Fire.
Been catching traffic from Helco about spot in Div.T and many spots or slop overs in Div.W
If I hear the actual location of this show, I’ll update.
Pretreat for Div.C off the fires edge for tomorrow firing operation.
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160 and 40 are heading to the central camp portion of in division C.
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Div C getting some tanker help this evening. Best visibility here for a week.
This would be T160, T40, Lead Bravo9, and helco (I think).
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Spot in div c?
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Don’t think so… they did a burn in there today. And I know that reinforcing those lines has been a priority for a while…
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Also had tanker 163 which rtb paso robles, tanker 914 is inbound.
Deadwood mountain has a good view.
http://www.alertwildfire.org/sierra/index.html?camera=Axis-Deadwood&v=81e004f
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I sure hope so. We have a house on Shoreline Drive. Fires has been close on numerous occasions last decade or two, but never burnt over. Lot’s of 2-3 story homes all grouped together with many old growth pines mixed in between.
They stated in the briefing tonight that they were reenforcing lines in that section in support of the firing ops.
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After talking with The local resources coming off the line today they conducted firing operations around central camp. The original idea was “ hold it at the lake” and so a firing operation occurred along central camp road instead. Sounds like they are continuing the firing operation tonight after painting the green.
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289,695 ac. 32% contained as of the 1930 Inciweb update. The views from Deadwood cam and the back porch looks like they’re continuing the Div C burn ops.
Helicopters worked that area for a while this afternoon. No fixed wing action, though.
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291,426 ac. @ 36% containment as of the 0700 Inciweb update. Just grinding it out…
Looks like most of the growth was in the N/NE (Div J/M) and E (Div N/P) down towards Portal Forebay.
On Friday, the Mariposa Heli-base will terminate firefighting operations, and all helicopters based there will relocate to Bishop Airport to the southeast of Mammoth Lakes. This relocation is in response to the expected northeast winds with the high-pressure system moving into the area this weekend, and not a result of any increased threat of fire progression. - InciWeb
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292,172 acres (up 746) @ 39% (up 3%)
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302,870 ac. (+10,040) @39% (+0%) as of the OSCC News and Notes morning update.
Also looks like there might be some IMT changes, unconfirmed - just reading the resource assignments from the GACC.
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CA IIMT 5 took over the south zone officially yesterday. A few CF IMT 1 folks staying back a few more days to help out.
Rumor is that either Team 5 will take the entire fire over when the Fed team on the north zone times out or a type 2 team will come in and take over the North.
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