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Photo Credit | USFS
STAGECOACH FIRE | Kern County FD
About 9 miles South of Lake Isabella, near Havilah Community
UPDATE 2 | MONDAY (8/10/2020)
INCIDENT SUMMARY
- Reported – 8/3/2020, 1529 PT
- Cause – Unknown, under investigation
- Response – Wildfire
- Fuels – Tall brush, tall grass
- Area – Havilah and Piute communities in Kern County. 9 miles south of Lake Isabella.
- Command – Kern County FD (Lead), BLM Fire and Sequoia Forest
- IMT – IMT 2 – CA Team 15
- Incident Cooperators – Kern Co SO, CAL FIRE, Kern HS District, CHP, Liberty Ambulance, CAL OES, Red Cross, CA DOC, San Joaquin and East Kern APCD, Joseph Elft (@MappingSupport)
Photo Credit | Kern FD
CURRENT STATUS
- Size/Containment – 7,760 acres
- Containment Status – 77%
- Personnel – 974 total personnel including 30 crews, 33 engines, 9 helicopters.
- Fire Behavior – Min with flanking, creeping and smoldering
- Operations – Firefighters making good press, increased containment achieved daily, construction and reinforcement of fire line in continually progress on eastern and northern edges.
- Mop-up operations in progress to address hot spots.
- Fire Weather – expected high winds on Tuesday afternoon, may increase fire behavior
- Evacuations in progress
Photo Credit | Kern County FD
EVACUATIONS
- Thompson Canyon Area – Includes Caliente Bodfish Rd east to Piute Mtn Rd, from area South of School Street to South of Heritage Way
- Valley Area – Saddles Springs Road/Piute Mtn Road as it goes near Burton Mill, Clear Creek, Cold Spring, Liebel Peak, Piute Peak, Piute Spring, Rocky Point and Saddle Spring
Photo Credit | City of Tehachapi | Photo taken of a helo on August 5th that was seen staged/flying out of the Tehachapi Municipal Airport
CLOSURES
- Roads – Thompson Canyon Road east of the cattle guard, approximately .25 mile East of Gossip Rock
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
- $9 Million Cost-to-date (Fire Suppression/Containment efforts)
- Damages – 5 structures
- Destroyed – 15 structures (habitable), 25 (outbuildings)
- Injuries – 1
Photo Credit | Alert Wildfire | Photo taken on August 4, 2020 as seen from Breckenridge. This is showing a wind shift from NV fire cameras. Amazing….
RESOURCES
- Engines – 25
- Helos – 9
- Dozers – 1
- Water Tenders – 14
- Air Tankers – 0
- Crews – 21
- Overhead Personnel – 139
- Total Personnel – 754
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PHOTO(S) CREDIT
- Central CA District – BLM
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