Grass Fire on Cuesta Grade

4 pm — Update: Highway 101 NB out of SLO is down to 1 lane for six hours or more. Recommended alternate route is 1 to 41 E.

Here are some CHP photos of the incident:

1:33 — a lot of tankers and two helicopters and at least 10 engines on this one. 30 acres, wind driven, but looks like they are getting a handle on this.

Detail Information
1:10 PM21[70] A28-404 10 PLUS FIRE ENG’S ON SCENE – AND MORE ARRIVING ON SCENE – HAVE DOT SHUT IT DOWN #3 LN JNO STAGECOACH
12:41 PM20[68] ADDITIONAL RP ADVSD THERE IS A PORTION OF THE FIRE THAT IS NOT BEING TENDED TO / TOT CAL FIRE
12:27 PM19[64] 1039 PSDS DENKER
12:27 PM18[63] S2 – 1039 TO 28-C AND 28-L
12:26 PM17[62] S2 – ISSUE A SIG ALERT
12:20 PM16[51] 28-S2 CALL DOT FOR LN CLOSURE
12:15 PM15[57] [Appended, 12:23:40] [4] S2 CPY DONT SEE ANY FIRE DOWN THERE – POSS ONE AND THE SAME
12:15 PM14[55] [Appended, 12:23:40] [2] TOT CAL FIRE
12:14 PM13[54] [Appended, 12:23:40] [1] POSS A 2ND FIRE ON RHS
12:13 PM12[48] [Appended, 12:13:33] [2] REPORITING THE FIRE
12:11 PM11[46] A28-404 GOING 97 / #3 LANE BLKD
12:10 PM10[40] A28-101 FIRE IS ON SCENE
12:10 PM9[44] [Appended, 12:11:02] [4] RP WAS REPORTED FIRE ON THE GRADE,ALREADY SPOKE W CALFIRE
12:07 PM8[29] A28-101 CORR 404 HAS BREAK STARTED
12:07 PM7[28] A28-101 UNIT TO BRING BREAK #3 LN – 505 HAS BREAK STARTED
12:07 PM6[31] [Appended, 12:08:11] [1] FIRE ON GRADE
12:06 PM5[26] A28-101 50 FT OF THE EMBANKMENT ON FIRE MOVING TOWARDS THE POWER LINES
11:59 AM4[4] VEH PULLED TO RHS AHEAD OF FIRE / UNKN IF RELATED
11:59 AM3[6] [Appended, 12:01:03] [1] 1/2 WAY UP THE GRADE – GRASS FIRE
11:58 AM2[2] TOT CAL FIRE
11:58 AM1[1] BRUSH FIRE ON RHS

Prescribed burn – FHL tomorrow, 6/2

The FHL Fire Department with other cooperating agencies are planning to conduct a 1K acre control burn on June 2 at Training Area 24; Long Valley (Sam Jones Road and FOB Ward), 0900 – 1800 hours. WEATHER PERMITTING ONLY.

Rat Creek Boring Action

Lots of photos. These were taken last Friday and Saturday by Cal Trans and Dave Nelson,

Photo by Dave Nelson
Photo by Dave Nelson
Caltrans photo
Caltrans Photo
Caltrans photo
Caltrans Photo
Caltrans photo

Tomorrow, I will post the aerial photos.