FRONT Fire – SLO Co, LPNF

8:30 pm – 800 acres and 0% containment. Highway 166 to be closed for 24 hours…

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6 pm – #FrontFire is starting off a lot like the 1997 #LoganFire and 2009 #LaBreaFire both of which burned in the same area and burned > 50,000 acres in similar weather conditions. It is currently over 600 acres. It is close to the SB/SLO Co line.

As of 5:30 pm – Just had SLO get a ST (strike team) together for the Front incident…..ST9241C…..3465, 3462, 3467, 3470, an 34720966CB07-BDEC-4378-9867-29CA317110E5Per CHP:

2:02 PM 12 [31] 1039 SLOSO W/1124 JEEP/POSS PTY ON FOOT INFO
1:59 PM 11 [29] 1039 USFS W/LINE 22
1:56 PM 10 [28] 14-S2 REQ CALTRANS RESPOND TO SR166 AT US101 / SR166 AT TEP / SR166 AT NEW CUYAMA FOR POTENTIAL CLOSURE
1:54 PM 9 [26] B14-021 INQ W/14-S2 FOR POSS CLOSURE SR166 AT TEP // 14-S2 COPIES ROLL CALTRANS
1:53 PM 8 [24] 1039 USFS – WILL HAVE FIRE SUPRESSION AIRCRAFT IN THE AREA WHICH MAY BE IN CONFLICT – THEY WILL BE SURVEYING THE FIRE AND MAY BE ABLE TO LOOK FOR PTYS IN PERIL // H70 COPIES WILL BE PATROLLING SOUTH AND AVAIL IF NEEDED
1:51 PM 7 [22] A14-063 FIRE MOVING IN SE DIRECTION – APPEARS TO BE 20 ACRES IN SIZE
1:49 PM 6 [21] PER CALFIRE, FIRE BEING MANAGED BY USFS LOS PADRES
1:47 PM 5 [16] A14-063 FIRE IS MOVING TOWARD HIGHWAY
1:43 PM 4 [13] A14-063 FIRE IS NORTHE OF THE HWY APPROX 1/2 MI – RIGHT AT ROCK FRONT RANCH
1:37 PM 3 [8] A14-063 VIS OF SMOKE PLUME GO AHEAD AND START FIRE
1:34 PM 2 [2] TOT CAL FIRE
1:34 PM 1 [1] BRUSH FIRE ON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per WildCAD LPF: (sorry about the formatting)

08/19/2018 13:37 LPF-2334 Front Wildfire ROCKFRONT RANCH SL . CRW1LPF CRW8LPF DIV3LPF DIV7LPF E337LPF E346LPF E41LPF E74LPF HEL528LPF PAT34LPF Q . Grass /Brush 40 35 6.846, -120 5.526

Brush Fire, 46W & Old Creek Rd

1 pm – #creekfire. [Update] Crew are arriving at scene making great progress. Currently 3acres

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12:30 pm – no details, yet, and even though it is right next to road, hasn’t closed it yet. Per a friend near the Paso airport, they have a tanker and the sky crane helicopter on it. This is what is on CHP:

Incident:  00067   Type:    Report of Fire   Location:   Old Creek Rd / Santa Rosa Creek Rd  Loc Desc:       Lat/Lon:  35.534071 -120.859279   
Detail Information
12:16 PM 6 [9] [Appended, 12:17:05] [3] RIGHT ALONG SIDE OF RDWY
12:16 PM 5 [6] TOT CAL FIRE
12:16 PM 4 [5] NOT AFFECTING RDWY
12:16 PM 3 [3] [Appended, 12:16:37] [1] BRUSH FIRE
12:13 PM 2 [2] TOT CAL FIRE
12:13 PM 1 [1] SMOKE ON PP

 

 

 

Photo Sunday, 8/19/18 – Wild Fire of 1996

I apologize for the quality, but these are photos of original prints, as I was not digitalizing back then, and the negatives are buried somewhere…

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All of these were taken at my place in the first days of this fire.

And the news article – note, page 12, not very big, but 3 homes had been lost by then, but, you know, its the South Coast.

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