UT-FIF-Cottonwood

Nothing shows up on Flightradar or ADS-B Exchange. There might not be flying many tankers or copters today due to thundercells in the area of the fire.

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Probably an area where there are no ground receivers to record the aircraft and send the information on to the flight programs. At one time I supported a ground station with power and internet to relay those signals.

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UT-FIF-Cottonwood frequencies assigned:
Command 172.250 (Fishlake Forest Net)
Air/Grounds 163.825, 169.150, 168.150
Air Victors 125.375, 128.275, 132.175, 124.575 (primary) 133.975 (tertiary)

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According to the “Hotshot Wakeup” The fire is 71,000 with over 100 structures damaged or destroyed. They had an operational shutdown due to lack of food and water.

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Defensible space, some good work by crews, and proper building materials for the win.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaBZKYsGuXD/?img_index=2&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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A look at today’s spread on this fire, and we talk about the fire ecology of Utah.

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Nice Brief!

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The IR map from last night 6/26 @ 2327 puts it at 92,255 with lots of intense on the NW an NE. Probably going to be another rough day

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New perimeters for Utah Fires.

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Wow, all that acreage and NO containment. A work stoppage due to the lack of food and water for responders. I hope people/agencies take time to reflect on this incident and figure out what went right and what went wrong.

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Can you expand on the Logistics failure?

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See the message from Logchief1 posted 3days ago. 24hr stand down.

I hope they order one of those “complex incident management teams” soon, I think the type 6 team they have running it will time out soon.

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Sorry i thought you might have more insight.
A fire that large and going for that long should never have experienced that. Hoping for more to the story. The firefighters and public there deserve better.

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The Hotshot Wake Up talks about it in a podcast from a few days ago.

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FYI
It was a complex team.

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“Was”………is it still?

Again, I hope there are some honest lessons learned here.

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It is the same team that first took the fire and they have a few days left before it’ll transition to another complex team. If you have Watch Duty, you can scroll back to the beginning and see who had it and see the progression.

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Flash flood damage in Beaver canyon.

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