Valley Incident (Lawson Valley) - September, 2020

[inigo88]

I made this post on RR but I’ll put it here as well for those that don’t read both.

Valley incident is at 1000 acres, threatening structures, mandatory evacuations in Lawson Valley. Post your updates here if you’re monitoring.

CAL FIRE/SAN DIEGO COUNTY FIRE (@CALFIRESANDIEGO) on Twitter

Radio channels in use:

CNF Forest Net - Command
RCS CFA Tac 10K - SDCFA/Cal Fire Command post

Divisions Tacticals:
USFS Region 5 Tac 4
USFS Region 5 Tac 5
USFS Region 5 Tac 6
NIFC Tac 2

Fixed Wing:
USFS Air Tactics 61
USFS Air to Ground 59

Rotary Wing:
122.925 - “NIFC Air to Air 1”

Other:
RCS CFA 11A TRAVEL
RCS CFA 10A Dispatch
VHF Cal Fire MVU Local

Note MVU Local and CFA 10A aren’t patched, MVU ECC just multi-selects them for tone outs.

[Mikey]

Great shots from the Lyons Peak camera at HPWREN

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/I/lp-n-mobo-c.html

[Brian]

CA-CNF-Valley
https://forums.wildfireintel.org/t/ca-cnf-valley/14088
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/5/valley-fire/
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7150/
https://sdgenews.com/article/valley-fire-update


CDF Ramona Firefighter Air Attack Base
Post-interval generated animations
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/RamonaAAB.html


Valley Fire Map
https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/weba ... 9%2C102100

https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer ... d_fire.txt

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValleyFire?f=live
https://twitter.com/hashtag/LawsonValley?f=live

https://twitter.com/clevelandnf
https://twitter.com/CALFIRESANDIEGO

Photos and Videos
https://twitter.com/SoCalFirePhoto
https://twitter.com/chris_paetow

https://twitter.com/SocalAirOps

Cameras
http://www.alertwildfire.org/sdge/index ... &v=81e002f

Wind speed and Temperatures
https://weather.sdgeweather.com

Fire and Smoke Map Service
https://fire.airnow.gov

wildfire smoke detector
https://twitter.com/SmokeWildfire

https://firemap.sdsc.edu

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Hearing SDGE ground crew on 464.5500 DCS506
Mount Empire yard
Talking about needing 100 gallons.
SDGE or their private fire crew
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[Brian]

The 747 Tanker GST944/N744ST (B744) departed Mc Clellan Airfield (MCC) at 10:31 PDT enroute to San Diego/El Cajon, CA (San Diego/El Cajon, CA) for an estimated arrival at 11:20 PDT
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GST ... 1731Z/KMCC
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N744ST

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N744ST / AA0308 / GST944
N603AX / A7D27A / T914
N477NA / A5DC48 / T15
N295EA / A30872 / T105
N297EA / A30FE0 / T107
N366AC / A42299 / Tanker 163
N923AU / ACC962 / T23
N137CG / A0956B / T137
N130FF / A07BB4 / T131
N427DF / A515F1 / T70
N432DF / A52ADD / T71
N435DF / A53602 / T72
N437DF / A53D70 / T73
N439DF / A544DE / T74
N444DF / A559CA / T75
N431DF / A52726 / T78
N470DF / A5C16B / A505
N429DF / A51D5F / A310
N409DF / A4CE61 / A330
N418DF / A4F229 / A340
N415DF / A4E704 / A460

N741JR / A9F719 / LEAD55
N40Y / A4AC6E /

N449RC / A56D86 / ASTREA Copter 10
N549RL / A6FADD / ASTREA Copter 11
N958TR / AD5418 / ASTREA

N217AC / A1D386 / HT729 - SDGE SkyMaverick - https://twitter.com/SkyMaverickSDGE
N160EQ / A0F221 /
N160AQ / A0F1BD / C129 - SDGE
N205TK / A1A649
N386HQ / A47252
N229HT / A20331 / C139
N34HX / A3BBBA
N714GE / A98B84 / SDGE

N281SD / A2D346 / SD City Fire Copter 1
N283SD / A2DAB4 / SD City Fire Copter 3

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=AA ... 418,A42299

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Cal Fire Tanker Ground Crew personal plane.
Fly in and out when working at Ramona.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N135T
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https://twitter.com/SocalAirOps

All aircraft have been released for the night. San Diego Fire Department has offered 1 night dropping helicopter upon request. Here is a look the aircraft order for tomorrow:
Tankers: 6
Copters: 7
Helitankers: 3
Lead: 3 Scheduled
AA: 2 Scheduled

Updated Aircraft assigned:
S-2 Tankers: T71 T72 T73 T75 T78
LAT’s: T15 T105
VLAT’s: 2 ON ORDER
Copters: C129 C10 C11 C12 C531 C528
Helitankers: HT729

Aircraft assigned:
S-2’s: T71 T72 T75 T78
LAT’s: T15 T105
VLAT’s: ON ORDER
Copters: C129 C10 C11 C12
Helitankers: HT729 (2 ON ORDER)

S-2 Tankers: T70 T71 T72
LAT’s: T23 T15 T137 T105
VLAT’s: T944
Copters: C129 C10 C11 C532 C528
Helitankers: HT729 C139

[inigo88]

Awesome posts, thanks Brian!

I just caught RCS TG 2442 which could either be another rural CFA dept admin channel or perhaps another travel channel. Traffic was between two type III engines on a division on the Valley Fire.

MVU ECC just put in a helicopter order for SDFD Copter 1 on FIRE C-C and spelled out some of the incident frequencies. In addition to Rotor Victor 125.075 they also mentioned a “Ramona Victor” of 163.100 FM (which is a common shared federal simplex freq), so keep an eye out for that one as well.

[mike]

129.850 Helicopters heard

[electronicnoz]

129.850 Helicopters heard

That's the SDG&E helcopters Air^Air comms.

-Greg Monitoring ZLA & SoCAL from KSAN!

[electronicnoz]

Another frequency in use down at this fire that is being used for the Airborne Fire Coordinators (the guys in the V10 Broncos) is 132.775. They're using this for the transitions/debriefs of the command (who's doing what, who's assigned where, and status of where the particular planes/helicopters are). The best way to handle this is to either tape it or have a notepad ready to write it down. Maybe I'm slow at texting, but trying to use my Notes app, I end up falling behind!

And last, you'll know when this frequency is most likely being used when you see both V10s on ADSBExchange in formation. Yesterday, they did a hand off at 10:00am, and four hours later, the first guy returned at 2:00pm to relieve is coworker.

-Greg Monitoring ZLA & SoCAL from KSAN!

[mike]

I have been monitoring 132.775 to try and get more frequencies for the incident.