XMY ST2175C responding from Monterey County
OES 2870C en route
XAL 2001C en route
0410 NWS Discussion for the Northern Sac Valley (clipped from the point forecast). Looks like conditions may be moving in a favorable direction. The 0700 briefing will tell.
DISCUSSION… A departing upper trough over the Pacific Northwest will allow high pressure to build temporarily over the north state today ending the isolated shower and thunderstorm threat that we have seen over the last couple of days. Daytime highs today should come in similar or just a bit lower than Thursday but still a few degrees above normal for late summer. Daytime temperatures will see a bigger drop over the weekend as a Pacific weather system passes through to the north. Daytime highs Saturday and Sunday are expected to come in a few to several degrees below normal. Parts of the weekend will see a fair amount of cloud cover as this system moves through especially Saturday but, at this time, precipitation is expected to remain north of the forecast area. A fairly strong delta breeze can be expected on Saturday as the trough pushes into the Pacific Northwest coast with coastal stratus likely into the delta region and possibly into the central valley Saturday morning. Another upper trough will move into the Pacific Northwest on Monday bringing even lower daytime temperatures to the CWA. Daytime highs Monday are forecast to run anywhere from a few to as much as 10 degrees below normal. As with the previous system, precipitation is expected to remain north of the forecast area.
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4100C out of nevada county in route. BR23 BR57 BR89 E52 E5464
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Per Cal Fire Twitter:
#RedBankFire off Hammer Loop Road and Petty John Road, West of Red Bluff in Tehama County is 6,500 acres and 5% contained. Evacuation warnings and road closures in place.
Air show is starting up. Crane off of Helibase enroute. AA240 overhead requested 1 ASM and 4 Type 1 tankers to the fire.
Fire is looking REAL good this morning. Winds did the shift to the north as forecast, but was also minimal to none. Lost a LOT of heat on GOES17, bringing PNF-Walker back as the hottest thing going at the moment. SHF-South (the fire on Tomhead) has more heat than this one at the moment.
scancal.org/live.html has the updated Air Ground and Air Tactics FM for the day. I’m steering it remotely, with FreeScan remote which is somewhat blind and delayed, so it’ll take a bit to make sure Air FM is working properly. It has a smattering of tacs as well but only what I have preprogrammed as TGU tacs.
Inversion is lifting and both Red Bank and SHF-South have columns starting to lift.
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When you say the fire is looking “Good” is that meaning it’s loosing steam or growing? Some of us on here can take “Good” either way Hahahah.
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At this point, it’s definitely good for the pocket. However in the intel context, my “good” is it’s got the wind knocked out of it currently, very little smoke coming up, and behaving well enough for Operations to kick some ass today. We’ll see what happens when the wind and temps pick up.
The SHF-South behind this is putting up quite the column now and it’s moved quite a bit up from my vantage.
MODIS/VIIRS hits, with key road labels. My rough and dirty polygon for the fire footprint is based on combo of sat hits and radio intel, however the red pin for the “head at sundown” I think is throwing my footprint off. That lat/lon was reported by AA last night at sundown, and his geographical description he gave actually matches closer to the heat signatures. I’m wondering if AA didn’t ping his GPS right over the head (flying under the plume) or he sort of winged it at the coords, etc. Either way, polygon is 10,300 acres and actual fire is roughly 6500 acres so definitely less fire than my polygon.
SHF-South is the other fire shown. Visually it appears it’s run up towards Elkhorn Peak since the sat hits, it would make since with the wind and terrain alignment overnight.
AA reporting fire activity picking up @ the head, outflanked retardant near a structure. Left flank making a run at Hammer Loop Rd, additional air support requested there but visibility poor for tankers, trying for more copters.
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AA requested 4 additional large air tankers twice now, has been told none are available both times.
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AA-240 ordering for tomorrow: 1 lead plane, 3 S-2 tankers, 4 large air tankers & 1 VLAT.
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CAL FIRE IMT-5 (Parkes) in command
CAL FIRE ECC Support Team #3 assigned
7500 acres
7% contained
Difficult access and steep terrain
Evacuations still in affect
Multiple resources on the road
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AA placed the remaining few tankers on a hold due to no available lead plane over the incident or en-route. May give AA time to recon the SouthFire just to the west.
Which is the South Fire again?
SHF-South is just “up creek” from Red Bank fire - up the south fork of cottonwood creek. 4 miles fire edge to edge east-west. With the team in place, lots of rumors of South getting picked up by the team as well for lots of logistical/tactical reasons etc. It’s FRA where the fire started, but now is pretty equal FRA/SRA. And if the two join then, well, someone crossed the streams.
edit: just saw @captmack state Team 16 is taking the South fire.
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Dispatched XSN2376C to this incident this morning, with 2 additional type 3 ST requests currently UTF. Fire Season has arrived on the North half of CA… BE SAFE, no acreage is worth a life!
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If anyone gets the IAP links can you please post them? I scanner isn’t working For whatever reason so I’d love a good update with out department out on the line.
I believe this is the map some folks are looking for. I didn’t see where it might have been previously posted. Stay safe!
20190907_RedBank_IR TopoMap.pdf (2.0 MB)
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