Cal Fire News evening report - Large Fires, Red Flags flying

Red Flags flying, Critical fire weather - more than 700 scattered fires covering 112,500 acres (45,500 hectares) have been scorched or still raging, Over 5,500 residences at risk.

Cal Fire News evening report

Important Safety note: This Link at Firefighterblog is a critical reminder that at this time... yep right now...

"Everyone needs to step back, take a deep breath, drink some water, orientate yourself, where's the Fire?, where's your team?, eat something, possibly get some rest, now whats the plan? and how are you going to safely accomplish it?,
Go Do it. - Repeat often"
Bob O

These Samples from Various fire managers from ICS-209 older Incident Reports; At this blog Link at Firefighterblog describe the problems firefighters and fire mangers in California are facing tonight...

LACK OF CRITICAL RESOURCES - "Fatigue and lack of resources are compromising control objectives, Unstaffed fires continue to grow, Multiple fires MINIMAL STAFFING with evacuations in place or imminent, lack of adequate resources, Containment as opposed to control, Fires have been prematurely placed in patrol status in order to contain other unmanaged incidents", Poor access and limited equipment available., Heavy resource draw down is leaving 2/3 of the fires unstaffed".

Summary

"A number of fires are located in remote areas with steep terrain and limited, or no access. We continue to concentrate on fires that have been initial attacked versus those fires which have not been attacked, and choosing winnable initial attack, or extended attack actions."

The Lime Complex is comprised of approximately 68 fires ranging in size from one acre to over 400 acres. A number of fires are located in remote areas with steep terrain and limited, or no access. We continue to concentrate on fires that have been initial attacked versus those fires which have not been attacked, and choosing winnable initial attack, or extended attack actions. We are determining resources assigned to each staffed fire. Projections in the 24 to 72 hour time frames show the community of Hyampom may be surrounded by fire in the 24 hour time range with all ingress and egress severed. A similar forecast holds for the Town of Hayfork in the 72 hour time frame. A critical priority is maintaining the integrity of Highways 3 and 36

Fatigue and lack of resources are compromising control objectives. The Gov and Westville fires may burn together and make a significant up-canyon run. The communities of Foresthill, Baker Ranch and Michigan Bluff are potentially threatened. Air quality health issues are currently affecting the community of Foresthill.

Breaking Fires:

CA-BDF- Delamar IC. - Fawnskin - BDF-6950 - Vegetation Fire
Update: 1700hrs - 3/4 acre, moderate ROS. Upslope from heel making a run through heavy fuels. Air attack onscene. One heavy tanker, one light enroute.
Location: Yellow site post 33, 2 miles NNW of Fawnskin. 52
degrees at 5 miles from Butlear Peak lookout.
Access: via 3N12.
Terrain: Extreme fire danger area.
Resources: Full Wildland fire response, BE49 and WT 49, Aircraft in bound.
IC: Battalion 12 on scene.
Comms: Forest Net 171.475
Sizeup: Moderate ROS up slope with winds on it.
"If I don't get something in here soon, this will get big..."
Immediate structure threat. Start BE
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