Fire Reported at the North End of Trinity Lake

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At 6:30 p.m.,  a wildland fire was reported at Trinity Lake.The Porter Fire as it is called is northeast of Trinity Center. Calfire’s helicopter 901 flew out of Kneeland base to the fire. A Calfire air attack plane is over the fire currently.

A tanker was also being sent out from Redding.

We will update as we get more information.

Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.

Screengrabs from FlightRadar of Calfire Air Attack aircraft over the fire.

Screengrab from FlightRadar of Calfire Air Attack aircraft over the fire.

 

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Hick
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Hick
4 years ago

Kneeland crew is probably already back home. Tanker time is 20 min. Before sundown. It’s the time they send aircraft home. They like to have them on the ground by sunset. Again, that’s how it was back in the day.

SidewaysTalker
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SidewaysTalker
4 years ago
Reply to  Hick

But I know what I am talking about or maybe I did in the past. Ok buddy.

Buck
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Buck
4 years ago
Reply to  SidewaysTalker

He’s right. All on the ground by sundown, guy who knows nothing right now.

Muddy Black Dodge
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Muddy Black Dodge
4 years ago
Reply to  Hick

Any new news on the fire, not this dude’s hypothetical rendition of what may or may not happen with the fire planes. Douchebag troll

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
4 years ago

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6370/

Probably from the wonderful, Thor induced thunderstorms from the other night. There was a good amount of rain with this system and the forest was already pretty moist. Nothing is going to run very far, yet.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago
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Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
4 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Nice. From my place.
This system was a little odd in that it came from the Northeast.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Did you get hit by that wall of water too?

Bout 2 inches in 20 minutes.

I’m so glad it wasn’t the hail!

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
4 years ago

We got a good soaking, but not a deluge.

Erik
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Erik
4 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

We got slammed right around sunset, 6 strikes within 1000 yards. No time between the lightning and thunder, it’s sounds more like a 1000 tons of dynamite at that range, very short and sharp, i thought windows were going to break. We got .8 inches of rain in about half an hour. Before the deluge there was an epic double rainbow, some of the bolts of lightning were occurring with in the rainbow arc which looked very, um, well, I’ve never seen anything like that. Auspicious, sent chills up and down my spine. The wind was crazy, blowing walls of water around, sometimes sideways. I used the nifc lightning viewer to determine where the closest bolts hit and did a couple of night walks to see if anything was glowing or if i could smell smoke, nada. The closest strike hit some tall standing snags, but they were soaked completely and there was standing water everywhere so no worries. Btw, this was Saturday not sunday. There was lightning all around the lake Saturday, and it was hot and windy this afternoon, so a snag might have built up a head of steam and lit off an uphill run, especially if they didn’t get much precip locally and the vegetation isn’t healthy around it. On another note, the forest smelled amazing right after the storm, there is a native rose bush that’s in bloom and i picked up it’s scent from many yards away on the trail. The Ceanothus is in bloom too and was quite strong smelling as well, which I’ve not noticed before. This is the lightning viewer site i use, it’s the best and most accurate I’ve found:
https://lightningapi.nifc.gov/viewer/

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
4 years ago
Reply to  Erik

Yes, it was an amazing show here Saturday night, too. A lightning enhanced rainbow must have been awesome. The negative ions after a storm like this really enhance everything… breathe deep.

I use this map and also have found it very accurate. I’ll use both on the next system and see how they compare:

https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;r=0;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;n=0;y=39.5088;x=-120.6273;z=7;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;ts=0;

Erik
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Erik
4 years ago

Nice images! (Too bad wordpress is bitcrushing them to death, lol). I did breath deep, and i felt naturally wired and elated, but i also slept really well. Nifc is what they use in incident command, not sure if cal fire uses it but the feds definitely do. I sometimes use both, i like lightning map’s interface a little better, but i think nifc ground truths better and the displayed data is cleaner with fewer outliers.