Small lightning-caused wildfire near Cheesman Dam
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Mountain Area Sheriff and Fire Departments
03:23
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00:00
We just made it to the fire. There's 11 of us.
00:03
Correction, eight of us.
00:04
And I'll be Chiefman IC.
00:06
I'll call you a size up in here in a bit.
00:16
Copy, total eight on the fire.
00:20
Copy, probably 20 seconds.
00:29
24 says on.
00:36
Make sure with a verbal.
00:38
Copy 24.
00:42
The fire name will be the (number withheld).
00:44
Incident commander will be C.
00:48
(name withheld).
00:50
Call sign 1201.
00:52
Geographical area will be Cheesman Reservoir.
00:55
Lat is 39 degrees
00:58
11 decimal 868 minutes.
01:03
Longitude is 105 degrees
01:06
17 decimal 5.
01:08
Eighteen minutes.
01:09
Break.
01:15
Here's the fire smoldering, creeping.
01:18
Fuels are dead and down, grass and shrub.
01:25
No values are threatened other than the water shed.
01:31
No additional resource needs for this evening.
01:34
Break.
01:39
Wind speed light.
01:43
Position on flow, lower 3rd .
01:46
Flow percent,
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zero to twenty-five percent.
01:50
Fuel loading is light.
01:53
Adjacent fuels and topography are light.
01:56
Cause is lightning.
02:00
Additional hazards that we have in the area are just snags and nightfall working in those conditions.
02:08
Spread potential is low.
02:12
And our planned actions for the night, we're going direct.
02:16
We'll try and get a check in for the night, and we'll probably have some phone piles burning through the evening here.
02:29
1211, Cheesman Reservoir.
02:33
639 degrees, 11 decimal 8, 8 by 105
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degrees, 17 decimal 5, 823.
02:44
Size of a cup of an acre, smoldering, creeping in dead and downed grass.
02:49
Instruct no values threatened other than the water shed.
02:54
No additional resources needed.
02:55
Break.
02:58
Put the flame link with variable light wind.
03:01
Lower 3rd close.
03:03
Here is 25 % fuel load is light.
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Adjacent fuel is light.
03:07
Cause of light.
03:09
Other concerns will be stacked and nightfall.
03:12
Copy. We'll probably work here for 30 minutes, 10 hours, just see if we can get it checked in for the evening.
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