Flat Fire in Trinity County: 300 Acres, 0% Containment (Map)
The fire is burning in a rough and steep area which is critically dry and has had no recent fires. It is in a remote area that is difficult to access.
Temperatures are expected to be in the nineties today but to grow to over a 100 on Saturday and Sunday. Humidity is expected to be mostly under 20 percent. Gusty north winds are expected in the area.
MAP:Earlier Chapter: A Quickly Growing Wildfire Burning Southeast of Douglas City in Trinity County Is Threatening Structures
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Ummm air support? There is a lake and a airport right next to this fire. come on!
Takes a LOT of aircraft to knock a wind and terrain driven fire. Buckets of water only slow it down for ground personnel. Let’s go hotshots
Inversion has set in already. I doubt youll see air support, unfortunately.
Fortunately, inversions also help keep the fire more tame.
The plume this morning was pretty minor, if they got a big hand crew I’m sure they’ll keep all the structures safe. And I’m sure more forest will burn.
Tankers were in the air yesterday.
Those red marks on the ground are from fire retardant drops.
Retardant was dropped Thursday into the night up until about 8:45 pm.
Today, Friday, an inversion had set in the morning but is now starting to lift. If it does lift, you’ll see some air support today.
Fri , 7:30 am
Where about to the fire is this? Thanks!
Roughly 10 miles due west.
What do you think the smoke is like around Coffee Creek?
Perfectly Clear so far.
Coffee Creek is 100 mikes from there. This fire is south of hwy. 299 near that part of hwy 3 and hwy 36. Shouldnt affect Coffee Creek at all…
Awesome! Supposed to head over that way this afternoon.
Thanks – nice name!
Just saw a Sikorsky helicopter leave Medford airport. Fingers crossed it’s heading to Trinity.
Many fires in Nor Cal right now. Fires near Weed and Redding, Clear Lake, and this one near Douglas City.
9:45am. I’ll get a more current shot @ 1:00pm
Round 1pm
Another pic from 1pm
TANKERS ARE HERE!!!! 12:15PM
Heard that it looked like it was getting better, but now it’s back and the wind is picking up.. please any updates are helpful.. there’s a good amount of people in these little communities who are relaying on any information!
Is this the guy with the grey duramax?
Waiting for any containment info or anything really.. a lot of us up here are left in the dark..
Thanks Kym 🙏🏽
Looks like your to the north a ridge over. I’m watching from many more miles away than you but I thought it was looking pretty OK.
To me it looks like they’ve surrounded the downslopes with retardant. Though a finger of that fire is slowly crawling down the drainage nearest you. It seems the choppers and planes are on full attack.
Hope the best 4 ya all out there.
Do you know of any live scanners to listen to info on this fire?
Scancal.org
http://www.scancal.org/live.html
I don’t think any scanners online cover trinity Co.
Kym, or someone else (maybe Ullr Rover) may know for sure.
When I was out there at 1pm(pics above) I felt like we were going to hear of good containment by the end of the night. It really doesn’t seem like it grew a ton.
However, I am just an observer, and not a fire professional.
Ya it’s been difficult no one has really said anything and we’ve just been on our toes all Day ..any info helps.. thanks!
Looking good! Pic from 4:45 pm
This was at 4:45 or so.
I think you’re in the clear.
Great job firefighters and all.
Gosh C, I hope you and yr community stay safe! !!
Thanks for the updates and to cal fire 👍🏽
Kym, you do a great job but I will need to be traveling back and forth from the valley next week and the following. Do you know if there is a site dedicated to traffic and roads that can be checked on hourly or daily?
This the best. But it isn’t always uptodate. http://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/