ICO is at Avocado Lake. They are setting up a Spike camp at Dinkey Cr campground
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Thatâs the kettle fire, discovered last night or this morning. Its inside the park.
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The fixed wing airshow is just AA, itâs burning hot right now.
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Is the Teakettle Experimental Forest boiling over, today?
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Significant activity
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AA released the fixed wing once the north and south ends of the retardant line along side the dozer line were tied in around 1400. Believe that was mostly Div. T but probably some of Div. Q. Time enough to get out before it starts running away.
GOES-18 is hot.
Thereâs about 3 sky cranes out there.
Update 17:30, AA requests both scoopers, however one has no staffing. Itâs that like using a buck rather then LATâs. Heâs just getting the one.
It will be at Fence Meadow Cam site in a day or two. Lot of lookers parked up there, get to work.
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Its been full âthrottleupâ all day on this rascal - incoming/ongoing Wx not going to help any time soon! #staysafe #wildlanders
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Hope all goes well for you up there and you donât have to many bystanders.
Earlier AA reported a 5 acre spot near the Patterson mountain repeater that was running through the crown.
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AA requested early up for 6 LATâs and Lead Plane at 8am tomorrow. I suspect to knock down the spots and slop overâs.
Since Helco traffic is on AM I donât have any proper receivers to hear that traffic from a long distance. But, Helco went off station late tonight from Div.Q area. There is a helibase/spot at Chandler Airport (West side of Fresno, quite the historical place).
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The teakettle has boiled over, itâs reached the Saw fire at sawmill flat(suppressed a few days ago)and spotted a mile up Crabtree trail.
From goat mountain near bass lake.
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About 1,000 acres of the 3,000 acre Teakettle Experimental Forest (green outline) burned yesterday, largely under a big column. Lower white line is 24 hours of spread. Fire was mapped around 22:30 last night. Upper white line is cloud cover/no mapping.
And now the fire is trying to cap out, before 7am. Gonna be a long couple weeks on the Sierra NF.
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Forgive my ignorance here, but what is the teakettle experimental forest?
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Update 14:40 Firewatch 51 mapped 26,943 acres. Thatâs a over night increase of 5k acres in 16 hours !
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The new perimeter is a bit cheaty because they are including the island of unburned grass in the Basin Fire scar above the Kings River that was not included in prior perimeters.
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Not surprised. Many years ago when FOBS walked the fire lines with a GPS to bring a perimeter to the GIS trailer, I was assigned to YNP and brought them a smaller fire then the copters had mapped it as. They were upset at me.
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Back in the day, often weâd have over-mapped the fire with a loose helo flight or WAG on a topo, so when we got a new NIROPS (tight mapping) flight that showed a smaller fire, theyâd just hold off reporting new growth for a couple days until the fire got to the number we already had put out there⌠Youâd have a whiteboard in the GIS trailer with current â209/PIO acresâ vs âGIS acresâ. Hard to get away with that now, what with FIRIS and WatchDuty getting a near realtime acreage 3 times a day.
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And right on cue, new NIFC perimeter circa 23:44 last night is 24,851.1 acres (-2,131 acres from the last Intel perimeter) and properly shows the large unburnt areas east of Balch Camp. Would attach an image but the forum software is still hung up on that.
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