The wide view currently. The Foresthill cam shows it moving up the slope quite quickly (to an untrained eye).
Found a scanner covering this incident exclusively.
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Mapped by FIRIS at 8,265 acres
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Station 63 covers the burg of Volcanoville…pretty much one road in and out, right on the top of the rim of the American.
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Fire impacting Volcanoville Rd. with spots on the south side of the road
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Looks like that’s right where T911 just made a drop
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Along with Tanker 01. Been watching the orbit on AA500 and he is centered south of Volcanoville Rd. between Kentucky Flat and Tin Ranch
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Shared responsibility fires have a formal signed “Cost Share Agreement.” To answer you question it is paid for by the agencies involved in the Agreement.
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Yep same here… now T88 and T103 dropping along the same line. Definitely working that area hard right now. Been watching flight radar all morning and there’s been quite a shift in air resources to the south side of the American River in last hour or so.
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Volcanoville rd is not a great place to fight fire.and after. It’s gonna be a struggle for sure
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It means that my suspicions are probably right. But as @IMT_Geek stated, words matter, so I’ll keep those suspicions to myself, until the FS finishes their investigation. I’m confident it’ll be quick and conclusive
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Back in the day, we use to treat Volcanoville Road, 50-100 feet off the edge of the road. I hope they have continued that practice.
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I didn’t see it mentioned here, but earlier in the day Branch 5 was discussing plans for the Branch. He has six Limas and 10 private blades plus a number of alphas. The plan was to scrape from the Branch 5/10 break on the Ops map down towards Todd Valley. Alphas were getting structure prep with the ForestHill Group, and a few more alphas mixed with some 2IA crews embedding with the Todd Group to scout around.
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Roadside treatments have continued in Volcanoville. It is also a Firewise Community which will help in the WUI firefight. Regardless not a good area for a fire to get established.
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Abandoning staging at station 63 to much fire activity and don’t anyone coming up there
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Northern California Major Incident Feed is now live with Command, Air to Ground, Air Tactics and MCC Base Victor
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