8:00 pm – fire is still 70,615 acres, but now 60% contained.
From my friend near Juan Higuera:
“This is from the hand line they built today on the N/Side of S/Fork of Juan Higuera. They started from a black knoll working their way down to a line to take across S/Fork tomorrow I suspect. Put in 6000 ft of hose to pump water to backup their operation. Have another 2500ft set up across from where they suspect the fire will go.
A good day for Fire Guys who were Billy’s goats today on a near vertical hillside. One I have not hike in 20 plus years!
My smile may return yet!”
Look closely. You can see a ff on the hand line below the fires. Way to go guys and gals!!
Perimeter of fire this afternoon, provided by John Chesnut:
Noon, a slide show of the burn out operation yesterday by Scott Moffatt, who so generously let me grab whatever I wanted to share. (When he says: “left off Friday” I am sure he meant Thursday.
From Soaring:
“Huge amount of crews drove up in the last hour to restart the burn out on North Coast Ridge Rd, when conditions are right. Expect more smoke. This time it is a Sacramento strike team at our property. The Lassen strike team is following the burn operation south down the road. Across from us, to the east, the burn is still smoldering, has worked its way in the under story of the trees in the wilderness, every now and then we see a flare of a tree going up, but lots are still standing in the burn. Had a multitude of red fires out the window in the dark of the night, now it’s not so smoky. May all the conditions be favorable.” “Sorry, to clarify, those red fires I wrote about were small logs in the burn, putting up light and color, but there wasn’t much wind, the smoke went straight up. So far so good.”
10:30 am – Since this fire first hit the national forest, the plan has been to hold it north of Nacimiento RD. Even today, on the situation report, that is the plan. In 2008, after the Basin Fire was finished, a new fire appeared on the South side of Nacimiento RD. In looking for info about that fire, I was referred back to my own blog … Hmmm…and was shown this photo:
9:00 am – Here is a slide show of some photos taken yesterday at Terrace Creek by Cordelia Cluett who lost the home she grew up in up Marble Peak in the 2008 Basin Fire. It provides a different perspective of the back burns yesterday. Thanks, Cordelia
From the Post Ranch looking East toward Ventana Inn of the back burn operation yesterday. Photo by Jeffrey Carmichael
7:00 am – Big Sur Valley is a bit on edge today, as communities usually are in front of a firing operation. The smoke is drifting down this direction more than it did yesterday, but still not as bad as it looked in town. Busy waiting for report ins from others, and checking on things, but hopefully, those in Big Sur Valley will start sharing their views, thoughts, and experiences after morning coffee. Until then, sent last night by Michael Minasian of Big Sur Center, taken at 5:50 pm at 27,000′
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ee -- re: your post of last night. I just called The Tickle Pink Inn here in Carmel Highlands. They have accommodations for tonight, but one King Bed room only. You might try them at 831.624.1244. Best of luck and Safe Journey!!!
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Just sent a Photo from West side of highway 1 looking to the East side of Highway 1
Kate here is a shot from Post Ranch on the West side of Highway 1 to a Firing Oop on the East side of Coast Ridge road 6pm Yesterday
Jeffrey, I just sent you an email explaining that Wordpress does not provide for the posting of photos by readers, only by me, so email it to me, please.
may the day go well in this huge fight!
Sobranes fire phone folks just now (9am) have no info about where hwy 1 closures might be but think they may start at Palo Colorado again... I would expect that there would be firm info about where they intend to do back firing as that takes preparation but they're sure holding their cards close to their chest about this. Makes planning kind of a challenge and I appreciate all the superb work they're doing and understand there are a lot of unknowns. But surely they know where they're planning to do burns?
While communications have generally been pretty good on this fire between all the moving parts and between them and the community, it is bound to break down somewhere along the line after over 3 weeks. It does make it hard to plan, however.
bigsurkate
Wonderful information gathering & distribution you're doing. We ranchers south of you on the ridge top much prefer your very accurate & timely updates as opposed to those government services.
Please try to snuff that fire out ... so we south of you don't have to deal with it here in a couple of months or so. Keep up the good work, Kate!
J.
The plan is to stop it at Nacimiento, but if that fails, I'm sure they will want to use me as a fire break - have done it before... So no worries, I'll stop it for ya, Jim
Huge amount of crews drove up in the last hour to restart the burn out on North Coast Ridge Rd, when conditions are right. Expect more smoke. This time it is a Sacramento strike team at our property. The Lassen strike team is following the burn operation south down the road. Across from us, to the east, the burn is still smoldering, has worked its way in the under story of the trees in the wilderness, every now and then we see a flare of a tree going up, but lots are still standing in the burn. Had a multitude of red fires out the window in the dark of the night, now it's not so smoky. May all the conditions be favorable.
Sorry, to clarify, those red fires I wrote about were small logs in the burn, putting up light and color, but there wasn't much wind, the smoke went straight up. So far so good.