Day: June 21, 2020

Stage Fire

7:30 pm — IC reports fire is holding @ 52 acres & is now 30% contained, should have dozer line around it in the next hour. All aircraft have been released/diverted to other incidents.

7 pm – fire has slowed considerably, so release some aircraft, the hand crews of BEU are completely depleted from the Hunter, Stage, and Vista, east of San Juan Bautista. I have more photos from the Stage Fire, but technical difficulties are preventing me from uploading them.

4:45 pm — New fire at Old Stage and Williams road. Local government only at the moment. Seems to be a delay in getting BEU started. They have told their dispatch multiple times that this is a big fire and in the SRA.

Was 5 plus acres when the first unit got on scene. Structures are threatened.

BEU is just now dispatching

44 PM11[34] DUPE RP SEES FIRE IN HILLS OFF OLD STAGE
4:36 PM10[24] NO FIRE TRUCKS 97
4:36 PM9[22] SMOKE AND FLAMES SEEN
4:36 PM8[21] PER ANOTHER HILLSIDE FIRE
4:35 PM7[16] [Notification] [CHP]-MTY SO DPTYS 1097 – REQ CHP CLOSE DOWN RDWY NEAR 1029 OLD STAGE RD [Shared]
4:35 PM6[15] B27-050 1097 JSO WILLIAMS
4:34 PM5[14] FIRE IS SPREADING RAPIDLY
4:33 PM4[13] SMOKE VISIBLE FM 101/HARTNELL
4:26 PM3[7] NO VEHS OR STRUCTURES IN AREA
4:26 PM2[6] LRG FIRE
4:25 PM1[3] BRUSH FIRE ON SIDE OF RDWY AND UP THE HILL
http://www.alertwildfire.org/centralcoast/index.html?camera=Axis-FremontPeak&v=81e002f

Hunter Fire, FHL/BEU, 6/21/20

As of 10 am 6/22, Hunter Fire still at 140 acres with 15% containment. (Just for frame of reference, when the Ridge fire was at 30%, it was no longer of any concern to me)

Photo by Rolin Coth, USFS

7:30 PM — spotting on left flank. Two additional tankers being ordered. Now 140 acres burned. Talk of moving resources into the Copperhead area out front of this.

7:00 PM — 140 acres, spotting, starting to take the next “bowl” and still need two tankers that were diverted to Stage, and to Vista, a 3d fire in San Juan Bautista. 0% containment on the Hunter incident.

UPDATE 5:20 PM — HunterFire [update] in Lockwood (Monterey Co) 100 acres, 0% contained. 20 structures threatened. Evacuations in progress Copperhead Canyon Rd & Bryson-Hesperia Rd.

UPDATE 4:30 pm —

It is now 70 acres with short range spotting. Current weather in Jolon; 94, 25%, 10 mph out of the North. Evacuation of Copperhead Rd/Dr going on now.

State ID: CA
3 letter designator: BEU/FHL
Fire name: Hunter
Location: Sam Jones Road; Lockwood, CA
Reported acres: 40
Rate of spread: moderate
Report on Conditions: started in the grass, transitioned to the brush. Short range spotting now occurring with potential for 500 acres
Structure threat: yes: evacuation advisories for Copperhead Road/Bryson-Hesperia community.
Resources: AA230, T74, T75, T79, T80, T102, T137
Hazards:
Weather:
Radio channels:
Scanner link: https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/14671 28
Webcam link: http://www.alertwildfire.org/centralcoast/index.html?camera=Axis-CuestaPeak&v=81e002f 37
http://www.alertwildfire.org/centralcoast/index.html?camera=Axis-JoaquinRidge&v=81e002f 36
Agency Website:

Fire on Sam Jones Road. FHL unit is making his way into the incident, stating that its on private property and in the SRA. BEU is going to start aircraft as soon as they have coordinates. BEU & FHL resources responding to a working fire, with a structure involved, on Sam Jones Road approximately 1 mile passed the green bridge.

This should be in the area of Bald Mountain, which is the border of FHL and BEU, near the Bryson-Hesperia community.

Full response from both agencies, with a large column visible. Additional ground resources responding from SLU.

Here is the broadcastify link: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14671

AA- 230, T-74, T-75, H-527 assigned. FHL  8802 on scene. 2 acres mixed grass and brush.