[Update: Copter 604 Released, Fire Contained] Escaped Control Burn Reported Near Carlotta
A report of white smoke near Barber Shop Lane in Carlotta brought a response from Carlotta Volunteer Fire Department and Cal Fire on Friday.
Cal Fire Forester Jay Fazio confirmed engines 7231 and 1216 are on scene.
Access has been made to the fire, located near Barber Shop Lane. The incident commander reports the fire is burning in grass and slash at a quarter to half acre with a slow rate of spread.
Additional resources have been requested and are en route, including engines, a hand crew, a dozer and a water tender.
All information is preliminary and conditions may change.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Update: Cal Fire helicopter 604 is currently assisting ground crews on the Shop Fire in Carlotta. Cal Fire Fortuna is on scene with engines and personnel, High Rock crews 1 & 2, and units from Bridgeville and Carlotta are assisting. No new updates on conditions are currently available.
Update 7 p.m.: According to scanner traffic, Cal Fire helicopter 604 has been released from the Shop incident.
Forester Fazio stated that the fire is completely contained with size still estimated at roughly 1/4 to 1/2 acre in size. Crews will remain on scene as they work to fully extinguish the fire.
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With all this wind no wonder.
Helicopters are dropping water
Out of control, controlled burn. You would think the Carlotta Volunteer Fire Department would have been on hand just in case it decided to spread.
Oops
Who’s claiming this was a controlled burn? Nothing in this write up says it except the title and image. There’s really no such thing either.
If it were a professional burn, it would be a prescribed burn. There would be trained staff with equipment on site to keep an eye on it.
More likely an a-hem person improperly burning on their own property.
That is the way it was reported over the scanner. Controlled burn is usually the term they use for commercial burning, ie, a ranch or timber company burning piles they have accumulated. Debris fire, or burn pile is often used for residential burns. That isn’t fool-proof and certainly reporting parties and dispatchers can have different lingo. Based on what was heard on the scanner, this sounded like a slash pile burn that got away from them. There is a large logging company property next to the property that called it in.
Even prescribed burns get out of control. CalFire does not have the equipment or manpower to be at every single burn pile.
Judgy McJudgerson first off it was a control burn. But seeing your so on top should I just call you smokey the bear. Cause clearly your so damn professional now tell me this. You think when the timber industries do there burns that they have fire crews and state fire Marshalls and whoever else you think needs to be there? Never heard of a professional burn but then again I’m not you. Just so you know it wasnt out in some forest in the middle of no where. There are roads that lead right to the pile so all they had to do was open two gates and drive to it. But you can take that A-HEM person improperly burning cause the owners son owns his logging company. The pile wasnt very big. Now if you know anything about acres I’d say 1/4 acre is pushing it on how much burned. But then again you probably only do everything professional and by this imaginary book. People like you are what’s wrong with this world.
It’s actually Smokey Bear. Thanks!