FireDonkey, I think you hit the nail on the head. We have entered another, new dimension in wildland fire. These are not the fires of our youth. Stay heads up folks!
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I too grew up in Tuolumne County, our family has a cabin back in Long Valley off 5N01/Eagle Meadow Rd and have spent lots of summer days up there, just recently in June. I also have a co-worker who has a cabin up towards Kennedy Meadows on 108. They fear that she has lost her cabin, any word on structure loss for this incident?
Dardanelles Resort on FB is saying that are awaiting confirmation the the resort has burned down…
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@badbrad Thank you for the info. I hope it’s not the case, it would be a shame to lose those historical sites.
Agreed… fingers crossed for Kennedy Meadows.
1930 IR flight
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Updated IR maps at http://www.firemaps.us/files/IR.html - the map features the Mendocino Complex, bu tif you zoom out, Donnell is on there, too.
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Looks like it encompasses Dardanelle and Brightman. Worked FS there in the early 70’s, d
Does Anyone Have A Current 205 and or 220 for the Donnell They Would Share? Thanks
Can anyone confirm the status of Camp Liahona girls camp in Clark’s fork?
Does Anyone Have A Current 205 or 220 for the Donnell Fire That They Would Share? Thanks
The USFS doesn’t post IAPs, so it’ll take someone assigned to the incident posting a photo of them
I Know, That Is What I Was Hinting For.
Can you explain further what you mean about demonstrating that progress has been made and unified terminated.
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Since the fire is USFS land the mutual aid compact between the feds and the state is no longer needed meaning the Feds think they got this thing under control and can contain it without CalFire, this freeing up the CalFire resources to head elsewhere.
As for the fire, the north flank near Spicer Meadow is burning in granite sprinkled with trees. To the east the forest is thicker but thinning the further east due to altitude.
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That explanation is not really correct. Birdchirp is combining Unified Command and Mutual Aid.
Here is a better description.
A CAL FIRE MICT may work under the direction of the local jurisdiction having statutory responsibility for the incident. If it is a wildland fire on State Responsibility Area (SRA) then CAL FIRE is the lead for all activities in the suppression effort. If a wildland fire were to occur on both SRA and Federal lands, then a unified command may occur. If, however, it is an earthquake or hazardous materials spill within an urban area, CAL FIRE may be called in to assist in the management of the incident, but the overall lead would be the local agency of jurisdiction. The same goes for Federal Teams. Those teams go throughout the US and its territories to provide some sort of semblance to disasters.
So really when they go out of UC, that means there is no longer a threat to or is burning on large part of SRA, so they will turn over the management of the fire to the Local Government Agency or Fed ICT or IC, and only keep a CF agency rep on scene to handle any CALFIRE issues with land or resources on the fire. It is the same when the incident no longer is a severe threat to federal lands. When under UC, both agencies put there heads together to come up with a plan that is satisfactory to all the agencies involved.
And after they come up with a plan that they can all agree on, they sing kumbaya around the fire.
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And that is how it works…
Pretty good explination
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Copy that…any reason why the fire went/remained with a team instead of going back to the forest? Change in conditions, perhaps?
I don’t know the definite answer to that. I was kind of surprised they were transitioning to the local unit to begin with.
It seemed to me that the complexity was still type 2, but I’m not there and haven’t really been following closely.