Brock Fire on the East End of Shasta Lake Now Seven Acres
Press release from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest:
Thunderstorms moving across the Shasta-Trinity National Forest over the past weekend ignited several small wildfires. Three of these were discovered and contained by firefighters before they grew larger than 0.1 acres. However, one discovered today, the Brock Fire, was reported at 1:40 p.m. in a rugged and remote area on the east end of Shasta Lake near Brock Mountain northeast of Jones Valley. The Brock Fire has grown to seven acres in size and several helicopters, air tankers and crews are working to contain it. No structures are threatened at this time.A chance for more thunderstorms is in the forecast for next weekend. Fire managers closely monitor these storms and aerial reconnaissance flights will often be used to determine if lightning fires have sparked and fire managers will discuss their potential growth activity to develop appropriate response activity.The Shasta-Trinity National Forest is working in close coordination with partner agencies to coordinate firefighting resources in support of aggressive initial attack. The Forest is prioritizing the use of local suppression resources with the predominant strategy being rapid containment of wildfires.Brock Fire by Shasta Lake [Press release from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest ]
As a reminder, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest has enacted fire restrictions to protect the health and safety of employees and communities until further notice. Outside of developed campgrounds and certain permitted facilities and areas, igniting, building, maintaining or using a fire on national forests in California will be prohibited. Forest Service officials are taking this necessary step to ensure that firefighters are available to safely respond and manage incidents. 95 percent of all wildfires in California are human caused. More information on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest fire restriction order #14-20-04 is available on our website: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/stnf/
forestorders. Please visit our InciWeb website for photographs and further information on the Brock Fire and other lightning-caused fires on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
incident/6733.
Helicopter 502 lands at Jones Valley boat launch to sling load supplies to the firefighters on the #BrockFire (footage courtesy Lindsay Sundal) pic.twitter.com/hWTj7zkUWF
— Shasta-Trinity NF (@ShastaTrinityNF) June 5, 2020
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It would be nice if they burned the brush in the fall.
There is a lot of baby critters in the spring and it’s too hot and dry in the summer so that means the fall and winter
It’s gonna burn sometime. It would be better if it was burned when it was raining
Absolutely. Late fall is a good time to burn. The state needs to chill out on the air quality restrictions, the best days to burn are often days with still air. Science shows us that most of California had a 20 year fire return interval, fire is a necessary component of forest health, it’s literally like a missing nutrient at this point. Fire supression and bad logging practices are really a massive failed unintentional geoengineering project. There is no way to mechanically treat the the landscape at practical scales effectively without introducing fire as a primary tool of choice. The native people before us understood this clearly.
It seems pretty obvious that aggressive controlled burning in the fall is the most effective way to deal with excess fuel load in our forests. Why have they not done this? Is it all air quality control or is it because fire fighting is big business?
Borate bombers in the summer and Napalm bombers in the fall
The fire was caused by lightning. I guess CDF needs a magic wand that will tell them where the next lightning strike will start a fire. Can’t control burn the whole forest.