SQF fire in the Kern River Drainage, at the Ant Canyon dispersed camping.
AA410 with 2 tanker, Helicopter 523. A resource order for a lead plane was placed, and I believe 2 more tankers, is in the canyon and hard to hear.
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Sounds like it may be just inside Tulare County line. H-522 looks to be committed as well as H 408
7 acres on arrival, fire running with heavy winds. Starting evacuations of campers in area. Fire on both sides of river.
Tanker 160, Tanker 74 committed, AA is asking for 2 additional tankers, not clarified but I believe for a total of 6. Plus a total of 4 copters.
SQF send all of the Kernville ranger district engines.
SQF has added additional ground resources.
Any camera views?
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H408 Down Mechanical, AA advising does not need a replacement. The canyon can get fairly congested.
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What are the fuels looking like? Anyone got a nomagram on this yet?
Kern/Tulare Co. line is right at the north edge of Riverkern. Ant Canyon is about 7 miles north of the county line.
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Baker point camera is right next to it but isn’t showing current footage.
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Hi. Any updates on the Ant fire? Thx
Looks like tankers have been released to their respective bases.
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AA410 just left the fire, the tankers may have run out of safe area to work earlier.
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Any update on size and containment
Not hearing anything on the scanner, it that’s a dead zone for any radio traffic getting picked up.
Copy that. Thank you
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[Leesa Cizmar]. It was out when we left. Just a few hot spots they were putting out with a helicopter…this was posted in a Kernville FB page.
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