Near long valley campground with heat showing on satellite with sqf engine 46 committed
35.830000, -118.175333
Little dot southeast of the trout.
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AA requesting 4 tankers immediate need:
Two type1 Fixed wing, LATs
Two type 3 Fixed wing multi enegine, S2’s
Let me check one of the cams… I see the Trout fire activity increasing over the last hour…bet that’s what is happening on the Long.
Shirley peak: view at 40 dregree’s, white capping… lots of drift smoke…
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2378
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AA estimates Long fire at 100 acres with a SROS. He’s enroute back to Porterville.
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it’s going pretty good this morning. way more than 100 Acreas now and very active to the upcanyon winds this morning near Bald Mtn, Sequoia: ALERTCalifornia - Bald Mtn Sequoia 2
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That’s the trout fire. Its 2200 acres.
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I have seen this type of ordering before. The AA at the time wanted the smaller tankers so they could get down further into down a spur ridge into a draw then he felt the type 1’s could effectively work but wanted type 1’s also so that they could work the ridge top. To me that’s an AA that knows what tools are in his toolbox and how to effectively execute the IC’s objective. Also “closest resource” is designed for IA but after that its by request. Page 89 and 90 of the MOB guide
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I am sure this will get deleted or dumped into it’s own thread. I thought the typing system allows the IC to order exactly what they want for a given mission, and that specific resource is the best qualified for that mission. If the ECC or Expanded, or GACC says we can get you these closer resources as the closest T1 air tanker is two states away, that is up to the IC alone to accept or decline.
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Completely agree. Sometimes it’s politics too. Countless times I know crews are sent to a fire and told not to engage and then sent off all while the fire goes on fed land. Or one station that’s further from the fire is called instead of the one closer to the fire.
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Ok folks, back on track for the incident.
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Goes 18 not showing the Long (heat) now, only Trout (if I read it right):
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No offense, but I think that is the Trout.
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I may be mistaken. But not 100% sure. Sounds like it got active again.
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Oh it did, decent column showing from woffard heights
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Shirley peak 1 is looking at the trout with a large column and Shirley peak 2 is looking at long with a good amount of smoke behind the hill
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Yup. My bad. Doh. From Shirley 1. Surely you must be kidding. 
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AA N108SA, tankers 3, 76, 78,and 911 have been working the fire.
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Anybody have a comm plan for this and the trout?
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SQF-Long
Air Tactics FM: 172.6125
Air/Ground: 165.3875
Rotor Vic: 133.425
Trout might have a 205 out on the FTP site by now, but if not, their air freqs are in the Trout Q/A? thread.
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Looking at Flight Radar they are focusing on the Long fire with aircraft but the Trout looks to be very active on the Bald Mt cam.
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