Another Year, Another wild fire

Airport Fire
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/?/?/37.3174/-118.3468/13

Heading south at 35mph, jumped two roads and fire breaks, three air tankers en-route

Wind in Big Pine 13 to 21 mph

Both sides of the river

White Mountain Research evac
Radio Observatory evac

1 mile north of Warms Springs

 

1350 acres 0% contained
2 Air Tankers from McClellan
3 from Cal Fire

 

Visibility poor fixed wings called off
Helo's dropping
Got the Code Red to prepare evacuation of Big Pine

 

Man, I’m sorry

 

Date and Time Stamp of Observation 2/16/2022 2:51 PM
Report FIRE ABOUT 300FT JNO COLLINS MOVING SB RAPIDLY, per CHP CAD.
Direction South

Date and Time Stamp of Observation 2/16/2022 1:56 PM
Report BURNING TWRDS EAST SIDE LN (CORR EAST SIDE RD) / CROSSING WARM SPRINGS AT RIVER per CHP CAD.
Direction Southeast

2050 acres

@Hobbs

 

Y’all stay safe

 

Yep, we have people on site. Neighbor got an Immediate Evacuation text. I didn’t receive one…
Headed home shortly.

LOTS of misinformation circulating…

 

Be safe guys

 

Evac order - East of Big Pine

 

Sat view of hot spots

 

Jumped the river

2100 acres
0% contained.

 

This sucks to hear. Stay safe. Any cause yet? Lightning?

 

Downtown BP @ 5:00 pm:



6:15 pm from Poverty Hills:

 

@anonemoose how are you guys doing??

 

Fuck...

Stay safe up there, we're rooting for you!

 

How close is it to your home? Are you getting evacuated?

 

Prolly 6-7 miles. The wind isn’t in my favor but it is tapering off.
I grabbed my dog and important stuff and got out of there. I’m in Independence tonight.
The east side of Big Pine is under mandatory evacuation.

 

Hang in there buddy

 

Yikes. Been close to that situation but never been evacuated...scary stuff.