A New Fire This Evening

On 8/14/2016 8:15 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-08-14 22:34:56 +0000, Davoud said:

Savageduck:
...https://db.tt/toKTw9em...

Eric Stevens:
Arson? Lightning? What?

What? If SD wants to make it easy for people to see his photos he needs
a Flickr account, that's what.

Why would I need a Flickr account when I have perfectly good Dropbox and
Adobe CC accounts.
http://adobe.ly/2aMzRmB


So people can make such helpful comments as: "beautiful;" and you can
get more spam. Why else?l"

--
PeterN

On 8/14/2016 12:40 AM, Savageduck wrote:
This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The
various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost
light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through
the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

I hope it misses you (and everyone else involved)

On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation,
and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes)
within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2
x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x
Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for
tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place� because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire
retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them
having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk�
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles
to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be
withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for
36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service.
Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with
them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more
"FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several
additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of
the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

--
Regards,

Savageduck

Savageduck:
Why would I need a Flickr account when I have perfectly good Dropbox and
Adobe CC accounts.
http://adobe.ly/2aMzRmB

Why would you send potential viewers to Dropbox, a clumsy way to share
photos, when you have the Adobe account?

PeterN:
So people can make such helpful comments as: "beautiful;" and you can
get more spam. Why else?l"

So that family and friends who are interested can easily find and view
your photographs. So that Encyclopedia of Life and the Maryland
Biodiversity Project can harvest certain of your photos if they so
desire. They don't harvest from Dropbox or Adobe accounts.

Can't comment on the spam. I haven't received a single piece of spam
via Yahoo mail in the many years I have had a Yahoo mail account. Of
course, I've never sent a piece of e-mail from my Yahoo account or used
it to register for another web account.

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation,
and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes)
within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2
x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x
Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for
tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire
retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them
having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk”
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles
to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be
withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for
36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service.
Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with
them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more
"FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several
additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of
the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do?
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation,
and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes)
within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2
x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x
Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for
tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire
retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them
having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk”
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles
to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be
withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for
36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service.
Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with
them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more
"FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several
additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of
the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do?

You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov

On 8/15/16 PDT 9:25 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck
said:

On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck
said:

On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens
said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens
said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still
underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area
and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from
evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures
(homes) within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10,
2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes",
1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A
for tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place� because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed
Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of
them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk�
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso
Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to
be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down
for 36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically
each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crw to go with them. They
have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT"
bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water
tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

Sorry to learn it's so close. We are having our share of fire in NW Yolo
County. Now a big one up at Clear Lake.

Good photos of a bad thing, btw.

On 2016-08-15 22:38:09 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation,
and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes)
within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2
x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x
Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for
tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire
retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them
having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk”
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles
to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be
withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for
36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service.
Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with
them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more
"FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several
additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of
the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do?

The wind over the area is mostly SW with smoke drifting to the NE
during the day. The wind picks up in the afternoon/evening with gusts
up to 20 MPH before it calms over night.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams
wrote:

On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us.
The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they
lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all
through the night.
https://db.tt/toKTw9em
https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8
https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw
https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn
https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv
https://db.tt/e4DExwGO

Arson? Lightning? What?

They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway.
All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it
to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and
most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are
about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those
residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run
through the fire line.

Not nice.

I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got
worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as
they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation,
and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes)
within minutes.

They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now
they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2
x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x
Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for
tactical control.

As I said things got worse.

The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in
place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line
were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be
evacuated by boat.

So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost.
250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red
Cross at a local school in Paso Robles.

The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire
retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them
having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the
circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are
supposed to replenish the premix overnight.

They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk”
helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water
from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles
to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be
withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for
36 hours.

The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams
arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service.
Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with
them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more
"FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several
additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of
the fire today.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg

What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do?

You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov

You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's
geography to even know where to click on the map.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:16:51 -0400, Davoud wrote:

Savageduck:
Why would I need a Flickr account when I have perfectly good Dropbox and
Adobe CC accounts.
http://adobe.ly/2aMzRmB

Why would you send potential viewers to Dropbox, a clumsy way to share
photos, when you have the Adobe account?

I don't know why you think its clumsy. See the following photograph of
a snow leopard, a crop taken from an iPad image shot through a
spotting scope. It's a long way away.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/IMG_0224.JPG

What's clumsy about that?

PeterN:
So people can make such helpful comments as: "beautiful;" and you can
get more spam. Why else?l"

So that family and friends who are interested can easily find and view
your photographs. So that Encyclopedia of Life and the Maryland
Biodiversity Project can harvest certain of your photos if they so
desire. They don't harvest from Dropbox or Adobe accounts.

Can't comment on the spam. I haven't received a single piece of spam
via Yahoo mail in the many years I have had a Yahoo mail account. Of
course, I've never sent a piece of e-mail from my Yahoo account or used
it to register for another web account.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens