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Fire at McWay Falls

8:30 am — looks like our local fire brigade has it well in hand. Thanks Matt and Joel. Great job! (Videos by Brendon Shave)

On chp, it indicated the phone of the RP ”pinged” near Partington, but from the video, one can clearly see it it as McWay Falls

Incident:

 00056 Type:

 Report of Fire Location:

 Sr1 / Partington Ridge Rd Loc Desc:

 JSO Lat/Lon:

 36.184240 -121.701360 

Detail Information
7:05 AM8[38] FIRE STILL ON THE WEST SIDE OF HWY , WILL ASTNCE FROM CALTRANS WILL TRY TO KEEP ONE LN OPEN , PER 27-12
6:30 AM7[28] [Notification] [CHP]-PER MTYCOM FIRE HAS SB LN BLOCKED // 1 ACRE SLOW SPREAD DOWN HILL // [Shared]
6:11 AM6[27] 1039 OIC W/ INFO
6:02 AM5[21] [Appended, 06:03:18] [2] SHOULDER ON FIRE BRUSH FIRE
5:58 AM4[16] [Appended, 05:58:38] [10] CB/// XRAY REPORTING FIRE KEEPS LOSING CONNECTION
5:56 AM3[4] RP SEES FLAMES AND SMOKE
5:56 AM2[3] VEGETATION FIRE
5:56 AM1[2] RP PINGING JSO PARTINGTON RIDGE RD
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