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After a brief uptick in hope-inducing indications...
GASQUET COMPLEX FIRES [Evening 7/20 update]... they're already going back down. I'm really cutting the padding words and sentences and PR blather out of the InciWeb reports to help it start sinking in what is actually being DONE about the fires.
ACRES: 11,484 [up 1000 acres in a day] | PERCENT CONTAINED: 17% [down 3%]
FIRES: Bear – 2,663 acres | Coon – 4,246 acres | Peak – 3,861 acres | Feeder – 714 acres
Personnel: 658 | Crews: 9 | Dozers: 8 | Engines: 37 | Tankers: 2 | Helicopters: 4 | Tenders: 18
The Coon Fire has not crossed Deer Creek. Hand Crews and dozers have completed a secondary containment line on the ridge top south of Deer Creek.
Bear Fire firefighters using existing roads, dozers and firing operations to minimize spread.
Both fires will be staffed with a night shift.
Hoping the humidity will recover to 50-75%.
Happily for me, the smoke is blowing east today and so the pain is low.
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Noon update 7/21:
ACRES: 12,180 | PERCENT CONTAINED: 17% | Helicopters 5We got one helicopter back and the fire got another thousand acres.
FIRES: Bear – 3,317 acres | Coon – 4,350 acres | Peak – 3,792 acres | Feeder – 721 acres
COON: Continuing prep for possible burn operations to sercure containment lines.
BEAR: Continuing to construct line ahead of possible burning operstions to secure the north and west perimeters of the fire. The fire has grown to the east and crossed into the Klamath National Forest. We are currently working with the Klamath National Forest on suppression tactics.
Today we are continuing with hot and dry conditions. The inversion will keep fire activity moderate. High temperatures are predicted to be 75 to 85 degrees with relative humidity near 20 to 25%. Winds Northeast 6 to 11 with gusts to 20 mph, downslope/down valley 3 to 8 mph.
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