http://www.alertwildfire.org/sierra/index.html?camera=Axis-FayRanch1&v=fd40736
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AA51 is over the fire.
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Kern county fire department Facebook just called it 2,100 plus.
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Hearing the deputy IC on Kern Command 3 confirming the IC is coming down to the office to discuss the options for a type 1 team request.
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Checking Johnsondale RH recover is pretty good from 20’s at ignition to the 50’s at 23:00.
Fuel stick won’t show this until day break. Currently 5%.
https://raws.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?caCJOH
Wofford RAWS is windy at gusts in the 20’s out of the NW. As discussed earlier by others.
No fuel stick here but, RH is in the 40’s.
https://raws.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?caCWOF
Kern river RAWS differs with no winds. RH 30’s fuel stick of 4%. Also discussed by others the disparity in readings from each station. Micro climates.
https://raws.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?caCKV1
I like these DRI.EDU RAWS with the fuel sticks.
Active fire fights one area creeping fire others.
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Should be CA-CND
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MVU just dispatched a T6 ST immediate need. ST9336F
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Air Attack is off the fire unable to work due to poor visibility this morning.
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2,600 acres and 0% contained.
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CAIIMT 12 assigned to this incident. In-Brief tonight at 1800 at Kernville District Office
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Looks like the inversion is starting to break
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New evac warning for everything south of 155 from rancheria to wofford heights Blvd.
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The push out to the north should not be a surprise. There are usually two wind forces at play. The one I described yesterday was the desert heating up faster than the SJ Valley and pulling air up and over the Hwy 155 area and then down slope to the lake and flowing out over Walker Pass to try and reduce the lower pressure from the thermal low. The second one that locals know about is affectionately called a “toilet bowl effect.” Air is also drawn up the Kern River Canyon and flows clockwise around the lake until it gets to the same Hwy 155 area. That’s where a majority of it is then entrained into the flow coming down the Hwy 155 area. So there is always seems to be an odd lateral movement of fire. That is what makes this area so complex, as we saw, fire rapidly runs downslope during the day, then upslope at night. Then you have this side slope that can turn the northern flank into a head fire fairly easily. Occasionally the fires burn into the Wofford Heights area if there is enough of a side slope wind vector remaining. It isn’t super common, but there have been several that have. This is the year you may see all sorts of “abnormal” events. We have had a burnovere in Kernville to the north many years ago. If any odd fire behavior events can happen anywhere, it is possible to happen here. It is a complex piece of ground, and very - very dozer unfriendly.
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I was just able to freeze frame a shot from the Shirley Peak cams. An S2 just dropped to protect the tower. On the 15 min loop.
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Not sure why since it is not immediately threatened. But at 16:17:51 you get one frame of the Lead and then 16:19:16 PhosChek with the dirty bird in the background.
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