Had some exciting times up on Case Mt. in 1987 (the Seige of '87). That’s some rough country! It’s hard to remember for sure but I believe we used the Salt Creek Fire Control Road to contain the West side of the fire, we painted that ridge from Case to Homer’s Nose with retardent and hand lines. I spent 17 days on that fire, never left my battalion. We got our backsides handed to us by that fire, although by today’s standards it doesn’t seem like much.
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I hear someone remembering the Case Mountain Fire in 1987
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Let’s say they bring fore from the top down with favorable conditions,then all the work pays off and if not then build a bigger box.
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Yes that is contingency line- they don’t feel they will have to use it.
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Awesome to hear. Otherwise, that’d be one heck of a firing operation!
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Fire activity has been minimal the past couple nights by looking at the blue ridge camera.
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I was reading and heard from someone that has first hand information that Balch park and mountain home where saved and that was in large part to burning that they have did in the last couple years up there and also the logging that was going on in the area. The forest service also was doing a lot of thinning along Balch park rd as well which did help out too. The areas outside of mountain home that did get intense fire activity where very thick and over grown and I know this for a fact as that it is a area I frequent and hunt. This fire burned with such intensity not only due to the bug kill but the understory was so thick in dry that it added to the fuel loading in the fire area.
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thanks for the intell 
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Fired off today from MM division. Used the 4 blade dozer scrap after the technical hike down from cut and treated line. Went well, not as much depth as we wanted, but some good black. Might be getting helicopter support to drop some “ping pong balls” tomorrow.
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Any update if the ban on all journalists is going to be lifted? At least for the experienced credentialed independent journalists and photographers vetted with real newspapers and magazines who know safety protocol and have their own PPE? (Might be nice for the local citizens to be better informed and less stressed out, especially ones impacted by the evacuations and warnings. Official channels of information are good but can only do so much.)
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I know it picked up today. Heard on the radio for all dozers to find a wide spot really quick
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Yeah looking at the blue ridge cam the past hour it looks like they did some firing and what traffic did you here.
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Looking like there’s a helitorch working, you can see a helicopter a few times as it progresses.
http://www.alertwildfire.org/sierra/index.html?camera=Axis-BlueRidge2&v=81e004f
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Blue Ridge cams still down as of yesterday 9/22 13:48
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Looking at the satellite they are doing more firing in that area.
https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17&z=5&im=60&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=170&motion=loop&map=1&lat=0&opacity[0]=1&hidden[0]=0&pause=20200923140032&slider=-1&hide_controls=1&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&sec=full_disk&p[0]=cira_natural_fire_color&x=13881&y=3662.6640625
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And Blue Ridge cams are back up
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This morning’s briefing sounded pretty confident about stopping the spread of the fire into Three Rivers
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We will see when the temps jump to 100 degrees in 2 days.
I wouldn’t worry regardless of the temps being in the 100,s they fire as laid down pretty good even thought it’s still pretty warm. They fired those pieces they did the strengthen the lines and I don’t see it growing much more on its own unless there putting fire on the ground
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