Not seeing anything on the Great Basin site so putting this here as it is probably in Sierra County now.
Verdi, Nv, buring to west and northeast, estimated 80-100 acres an hour ago. moving to the winds and fire behavior pushing it to the nirthwest and it has spotted two gulches over, per Air Attack. Four large air tankers (LATs) and two type-3 air tankers have been requested, and additional resources are en route.
Watch Duty now has it at 1,100 acres and also states that the head is running into the Hawk Fire scar.
Sorry I wasn’t able to make any reports earlier. I was working at Stead Airport and couldn’t break to have a look.
The Stead tanker base closed for the season yesterday.
As Zeke’s sketch on the other thread indicated it is flanking the westside of the Hawk Fire. The fire is just coming up onto the ridge between Dog Creek and the unnamed creek to the east of Dog. Another way to describe it is just crossing into California.
It is pretty much backing into the wind.
There are some roads up there. but given the fuel loads and the wind stiring around I would not expect the roads to hold without a whole lot of folks to conduct the holding action or a whole lot of retardant.
The picture above is from Chimney Peak.
The picture below is from Babitt.
As you can see when on the west sholder of Peavine, the wind and slope are aligned so that the fire is making flanking runs west of the Hawk.
Nothing is slowing this at the moment.
1810 update. The wind has shifted hard from the west,
pushing the Bull into the Hawk scar.
The black visible below the smoke near the head of the fire is the Hawk scar.
Lenticular clouds are forming/spreading from the west to above the fire.
This indicates that we can expect west to sw winds overnight over Peavine.
There is retardant up the west flank. The tanker in this picture is dropping on the(very short) north flank.
As of this morning, the fire remains 0% contained; however, crews made good progress overnight. Firefighters will continue working throughout the day to strengthen and improve fire lines and secure the fire perimeter. More than 500 personnel have been assigned to the incident, with significant ground and aviation resources supporting suppression efforts. Steep, rugged terrain and limited access continue to present challenges for firefighters. Per WD
