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Sunday, June 7, 2009

CA-BDF/BDU- Baseline incident - 40 acres - 70%

Baseline Incident - Wildland Fire/Grass fire San Bernardino National Forest, in East Highland east of San Bernardino.

View CA-BDF/BDU-Baseline - Wildland Fire San Bernardino forest, Cal fire east end of Base line Highland city area. in a larger map

Update: 1900hrs - 40 acres - 70%
Update: 1749hrs -40% containment, No further threat to SBN Forest, no structures damaged or destroyed.
Update: 1705hrs - http://inciweb.org/incident/1681/
Update: 1645hrs - Firefighters making good progress

Update: 1630hrs - 20 acres with retardant lines on both flanks

Update: 1600hrs - 8 to 10 acres, AT en route from Hemet
IA: 1519hrs - 5 acres medium rate of spread, Making a run uphill. Aircraft on order. Very large potential. 2nd alarm for Forest service
Location: San Bernardino National Forest, East of Highland / San Bernardino.
Fuels/Terrain: Light grass and chaparral
IC: Walkowski - USFS BDF unified command with BDU CALFIRE
Resources: Full wildland response, IC Ordering second Air Tanker out of Hemet.
Equipment assigned at the peak of the incident: 25 engines, 6 Hand Crews, 1 Fire Dozer, 2 Water Tenders, 1 Air Attack, 1 Air Tanker, 4 Helicopters - Water dropping (2, type 2 and 2 type 1)
Cause: Under investigation
Live webcam: http://webcam.csusb.edu/video/default.html
More info: FICC WildCad

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CA-BDF/BDU- Baseline incident - 40 acres - 70%

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