CREEK FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE Date: 10/13/2020 Time: 9:00 AM Fire Information: 844-668-3473 South Zone Media Line: 559-790-6374 @SierraNF @CAL_FIRE North Zone Media Line: 844-668-3473 Incident Email: [email protected] @MaderaSheriff @FresnoSheriff Incident Website: www.fire.ca.gov @CALFIREMMU @CALFIREFresnoCoFire https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7147/
INCIDENT FACTS Incident Start Date: 09/04 /2020 Incident Start Time: 6:33 p.m. Incident Type: Wildland Fire Cause: Under Investigation Incident Location: Along the San Joaquin River near Mammoth Pool, Shaver Lake, Big Creek & Huntington Lake. Forest/CAL FIRE Units: Sierra National Forest, CAL FIRE Units Fresno-Kings and Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unified Command Agencies: Northern Rockies Team 4, CAL FIRE, California Team 14, Fresno County Sheriff Size: 337,655 Containment: 55% Firefighter Injuries: 22 (minor) Expected Full Containment: 10/31/2020 Structures Threatened: 119 Structures Destroyed: 856 Structures Damaged: 71 CURRENT SITUATION Current Weather Information: Situation: High pressure aloft with bring hot and dry conditions along with generally light winds through this week. Smoke will increase across the area resulting in decreased visibility and air quality. Critical fire weather conditions are possible by Wednesday, due to minimal Humidity recovery and development of warmer than normal temperatures. Winds will be up slope canyon by day, down slope down canyon by night, predominately terrain driven on Wednesday.
Fresno County-SOUTH ZONE: As a reminder of safe driving, utility crews continue to work throughout the areas that have been repopulated. Southern California Edison has reported 480 of their customers remain without power. Helicopters were repositioned out of Mammoth Lakes area yesterday and worked until smoke conditions did not allow. 10% of Suppression lines have been repaired. This total reflects 248 miles of Dozer line, of which 35 miles has been repaired and 44 miles of Hand Line Construction, 1 mile has been repaired. Suppression repair work is occurring on approximately 350 miles of line and assessments of impacts are nearly complete.
Fire suppression repair is a series of immediate post-fire actions taken to repair damages and minimize potential soil erosion and impacts resulting from fire suppression activities. This work usually begins before the fire is contained and before the demobilization of an Incident Management Team. This work repairs the hand and dozer fire lines, roads, trails, staging areas, safety zones and drop points used during fire suppression efforts.
Madera County-NORTH ZONE: On the west side of the fire crews had another good day of patrolling and ensuring that the containment lines remained secure from the San Joaquin River north to the Little Shuteye Peak area. Chipping wood debris and hazard tree cutting continues in these areas as well. There was limited fire activity along the fire line area near Little Shuteye Peak.
In the areas near Upper Chiquito mop up work continued as well as backhaul of equipment and hose. Some locations with contingency dozer lines began suppression repair work. The Roads/Structure Group continues to clear roads, cut hazard trees and monitor the conditions along roads and near structures. The Roads Group will return to hazard tree cutting along the 81 road corridor which could take several days to complete. Evacuation The evacuation map of Creek Fire evacuations for Map: Fresno and Madera counties is available online: https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/in dex.html?id=28ce52cb86bf49dea0adef5a78b3c1b5 Incident The Sierra National Forest will host an Incident Briefing on Tuesday Oct. 14 at 7pm via Briefing: Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/SierraNF/ Damage Fresno County and Madera County: Inspection: An interactive damage assessment map for Fresno County and Madera County is available: Fresno County Damage Assessment Map or https://bit.ly/3kxDyvI Temporary Temporary Flight Restriction: Perimeter runs from South Merced River Fork on the south Flight end of Yosemite National Park, south to Millerton Lake roughly following Route 41, east Restriction: to Kings Canyon National Park, and north to Inyo National Forest. See: tfr.faa.gov Evacuation Warnings: Madera County: Complete list of evacuation warnings at Sheriff’s website. Road Closures: Fresno County: Highway 168 at Kaiser Pass Road. Madera County: Cascadel Road at 8S09, Beasore Road at Road 274, Road 274 at Central Camp Road, Road 632 at Buckskin Lane, and Road 4S81 at the fire’s edge. Closure updates are listed at: https://www.facebook.com/MaderaSheriff/. Temporary Evacuation Fresno County- Clovis North High School - 2770 East International Ave. Clovis, CA Points: Missing Persons: Fresno County Sheriff 559-600-3111 Madera County Sheriff 559-658-2555 National Forest Effective October 3, 2020, the Sierra National Forest will be fully closed under Forest Closure Closures: Order No. 05-15-00-20-15 through November 1, 2020. Conditions will be re-evaluated daily. For information, please go to the Sierra National Forest website at: fs.usda.gov/alerts/sierra/alerts-notices
ASSIGNED RESOURCES Engines: 117 Water Tenders: 40 Helicopters: 13 Hand Crews: 33 Dozers: 13 Masticators / Skidders: 7 / 17 Total Personnel: 1,643 Air Tankers: Available as needed and conditions allow. Cooperating Agencies - North Zone: Madera County Departments, OES, National Park Service, PG&E, Sothern California Edison, American Red Cross, and Caltrans. South Zone: Fresno County, Fresno County Public Health, Fresno County OES, OES, Shaver Lake Fire Department, Bald Mountain Fire Protection District, Auberry Fire Department, Huntington Lake Volunteer Fire Department, Big Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, CHP, National Park Service, CDCR, PG&E, Southern California Edison, American Red Cross, California National Guard, California Air National Guard, Caltrans, and AT&T. To learn more about wildfire preparedness visit: www.readyforwildfire.org