Did they order some local Tulare Co resources to the fire (for structure protection?) - hearing some local sounding units on the county/TUU channel going en-route to the incident.
Currently Tulare County has two task forces on the KNP and one on the Windy pretty much on draw down in county and not sure if anything else is being committed without leaving stations uncovered
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Headed up on the Windy with little info. Anyone have an Avenza link for an ops map?
I looked around and couldnāt find anything, but clearly something happening north of Lake Isabella.
Sorry if I missed something already posted.
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South East part of the Windy fire.
Everything is through the ftp site
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Interesting I saw a US Navy 737 with tail number CNV4837 that flew over these fires from Fort Worth, on radar. Mission is not IDed beyond takeoff location. But, why would they. NAVAIR naval craft.
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This is what I could find for smaller sizes as quick reference. One is 25th other is dated 23rd. The current detailed
maps are over 15mb too big to post.
I converted these to .png so, print quality maybe poor.
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Thatās what I thought at first; but itās not on the heat map yet and quite a ways from the KNP/Windy fire? The blue circle is where the air tankers were flying.
Iām not seeing else either and it doesnāt look like a normal heat marking used on caltopo.
Those marks, the red dot and blue circle, are made by me for a place of reference.
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Could that be part of the FTA and where the NoCom was?
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Is everyone relaxed with the whole southern mountain range burning up , good lord weāve lost all at this point!!!
That explains those retardant drops out that way, the com site is on Baker point which is where the drops were. Used to be a camera there for the Sierra wildland fire reporting system.
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I did a playback on Flightradar24 and couldnāt find it. I did see a KC-135 fly over the area headed to OKC. Side noteā¦ I regularly have seen navy 737 flying into Travis from points eastā¦ maybe this was one of those flights and they traversed from the MOA over the sierras and the fire?
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Navy more likely into NAS Lemoore
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More than likely an āIPā or reporting location for tankers and or other aircraft to loiter before coming into the fire and congesting the air space.
On a side note , it will be interesting how the weather shapes up in the next 24-72 hours with strong westerly winds predicted.
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CNV4837 Departed Lemoore NAS this afternoon head east, when I looked it was over New Mexico. Normal run for a Navy C40A
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Tankers 163 & 164 just went there and did a drop returned to Fresno. The fire isnāt real far from baker point and there is no good access for a crew to get in and prep the site.
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