CA-SCU- Explosive IC- Vegetation fire - 2163 acres 100% - Site 300

Explosive IC - Grass fire first spotted at a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory test site 300 in the Altamont hills.

Final Update: 2038 hrs - Fire is contained. Currently 40 persons on the fire, 5 SCU engines on patrol tonight, 1 on patrol tomorrow. Buttoning up Site 300
Update: 1945 hrs - Per AA and H-106 fire is now 2163 acres including burn inside Site 300, Explosive Air Attack and C-404 now released with 7 minutes left on station.
Update: 1934 hrs - IC releasing some resources, Copter 106 finishing up mapping fire, Copter 404 released back to Columbia
Update: 1907 hrs - 500 - 600 acres 80%, Two fixed wing load and hold at Hollister
Update: 1706 hrs - AA states 800 acres - Threat to SRA, Staging now at entrance to Site 300 on Corral Hollow, Fire will hit Interstate 5 in minutes. Seven Dozers assigned to fire with plenty of work "Hit the black and keep cutting"
Smoke: Huge header over fire with smoke impacting cities of Tracy and Banta, with smoke heading towards French Camp, Manteca.
Update: 1637 hrs - AA states 300 to 400 ACs 75% contained, significant wind conditions still exist, Potential of couple thousand acres, no night shift.
Update: 1630 hrs - Winds 35+ mph, 200 to 300 acres.
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Initial sizeup: Vegetation Fire Site 300 east of Livermore. 20 to 30 acres, Wind driven grass fire, potential for 100 to 200 acres. Hand crews canceled gonna let it burn to existing control lines.
Explosive testing area, Alameda County foothills near Tracy, Ca on Federal land and LRA, moving to SRA
IC:Combined command, CAL FIRE ALCO.
Local Government Incident Command team en-route
Comms: command- 151.4450
Tac -151.1600
air-151.2950