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Let's hope this thread is short on Bay Area Fire Season

When I turn on fire history in the caltopo display, there has been a lot of fire activity in that area over the last decade or so.
 
crozier is close to us (across the american river middle fork canyon) but moving toward the recent mosquito fire burn scar, so there is little fuel left to burn. smoke is all we are currently getting. fingers crossed it stays that way.
 
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crozier is close to us (across the american river middle fork canyon) but moving toward the recent mosquito fire burn scar, so there is little fuel left to burn. smoke is all we are currently getting. fingers crossed it stays that way.
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my fingers are crossed, too.
 
This next week is supposed to be cooler than it's been in a while, should help them get a leg up on the fires.
 
Had a little fire ( lower fire) just south of us by maybe two to three miles away yesterday afternoon.
Quickly grew to 110 acres in a couple of hours. They shut down 299 at the west side of Redding at that time.
We kept an eye on from the front yard and I backed up the truck to in front of the RV readying for a quick hook up if needed.
They hit it hard from the air ( one 4 engine jet, three twin-props and two helo's !). Looked like they had it knocked down pretty good by dusk.
70% contained by this eve so hopefully they will wrap it up tomorrow.
Just a bit closer than I am comfortable with as a shift in the wind would of been all it took to bring it to us.
 

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so glad to hear that it’s going well so far (similar for us with the crozier fire). that said, i can’t hear ‘fire’ and ‘redding’ without thinking about the smokejumper team based there. we are on the peak of the divide between the north and middle forks of the american river, and the north fork is designated ‘wild and scenic’, so no retardant drops, and very limited other options (no dozer lines, etc.). so they only fight fires there at the ridge lines, dropping firefighters in from the air. and it’s the redding team that gets called in. we have a hotshot crew permanently based in our tiny town, but the north fork canyon terrain is so rugged they can’t get to most of it. pure smokejumper work. brutal task. total heroes.
 
Park Fire yesterday
 
New grass fire near Fairfield creates EVACUATIONS.
If you have friends or family there check in with them!
 
Excellent news.

www.pressdemocrat.com

California adds huge new aircraft to fight wildfires 2 decades after famous crash

Capable of flying 800 miles at speeds up to 368 mph, the C-130 has the greatest speed and range in the state’s airborne fleet.
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State officials announced Monday that after years of waiting, they finally have a C-130 Hercules cargo plane ready to fly in the firefighting fleet of Cal Fire, the state’s primary firefighting agency.

This C-130, a 1985 surplus model acquired from the U.S. Coast Guard, is a type of plane used by the military since the 1950s as a workhorse to move soldiers, cargo, even tanks and Jeeps. Cal Fire crews retrofitted the huge plane — whose 133-foot wingspan is the size of an 11-story building laid on its side — to carry 4,000 gallons of fire retardant, more than triple the capacity of the other tankers that Cal Fire has been using for years.
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The federal government has plans to transfer six other C-130s to California in the coming years. The one unveiled Monday will be based at McClellan Airtanker Base near Sacramento. Another is coming to Cal Fire’s base in Fresno by the end of this year, with another scheduled for Cal Fire’s Ramona air base in San Diego County in early 2025, Pascua said.
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That will help out, we're just getting into what is traditionally the dangerous time.
 
my fire, the Park Fire, is 85% contained. Our cabin survived. Last summer our area was made defensible with the Tehama "Tinder Smart" program. It's pretty awesome.
 
Another community under threat.

Fire raging in California's Tahoe National Forest threatens community
A wind-whipped wildfire in the Tahoe National Forest, 20 miles north of Truckee, has forced more than 500 people to leave their homes in a small Sierra Nevada community, officials said.

The Bear Fire was first reported at 2 p.m. Monday off Bear Valley Road on the east side of the Tahoe National Forest south of Sierra Brooks in Sierra County. By Tuesday morning, it had grown to 1,391 acres and was 0% contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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Line Fire sparker has been nabbed. LA's firebugs need more than incarceration as a deterrent.
Creating so many more homeless, so fast, effortless, Elsinore gone too ?
So-Cal trio of fires has turned my blue sky, yellow
 
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