about the weed california fire

https://goo.gl/maps/hLtQgEDLViXH2XAHA - 2007 street view - are those
mill fire trucks?

https://goo.gl/maps/gUtCmeTDQrqjPCEY8 - 2007 view of weed city fire
station - across the street from the mill - they have received at
least 1 newer red structural pumper since then

Weed FD is staffed by a FT chief and a FT asst chief + interns + vols
- per city fd webpage

Weed Cal Fire Station has 2 full time engines in the summer - per 2022
unit strategic plan - Weed Sta is in Batt 3 and has BC2613 + E2677 +
E2663 - both are Model 34 - total staffing is 1 BC + 2 Captains + 4
Engineers + 10 to 14 seasonal firefighters - this equates roughly to 2
engines on duty daily with 3 or 4 people on each engine - 9/7/2022 -
this station is only half a mile from the mill

somehow the fire tore thru the Jackson Heights neighborhood (which is
all level ground) before the cal fire engine could even reach the
scene - approx 3 minutes into the fire

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from the radio tape - roughly -

1217 - cal fire weed station spots the fire and requests full alarm

1218 - 3 beeps - "weed structure fire at the mill"

1219 - tones for Cal Fire Weed Sta + Weed Fire + Mount Shasta
Ambulance + Hammond Ranch Fire + Lake Shastina Fire + Mount Shasta
Fire

1220 - Cal Fire Engine 2663 at scene - shed 17 is fully involved -
need 3 alarms - fire has jumped Hwy 97 at Hoy Rd (which means it
already went thru the jackson Heights neighborhood)

1222 - Weed City Fire has some radio traffic - request full wildland
dispatch (which brings the aircraft I presume)

various messages

1227 - send every engine you have

various messages

1237 - Batt 2613 requests 23 strikke teams of engines (5 engines per
strike team) + 20 dozers and 25 water tenders

1240 - some says "will take the lats / LATs" - I assume that is the
Large Air Tankers but might be longs and lats - need top check further
- this is 23 minutes into the fire

Distances to fire stations on the first alarm - in road miles and
travel times per Google Maps - 9 miles and 18 minutes to Lake Shastina
VFD - 9 miles and 13 minutes to Hammond Ranch VFD - 11 miles and 14
minutes to Mt Shasta City Sta 1 - 5 miles and 9 minutes to Mt Shasta
FPD Sta 2 (which might not exist) - only the Mt Shasta City Sta 1
probably had any staff in the station at the time of the initial call

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Bottom Lines - the fire spread very very fast somehow - there was
maybe 9 firefighters in stations within a half mile of the mill -
maybe the mill has their own fire brigade and fire trucks - but there
is no mention of them on the radio tapes

Also - for some strange reason all the radio traffic was on the
dispatch channel - they should also have 154,34 and 154,25R + Cal Fire
Command 1 + Cal Fire Command 2 + Cal Fire Command 10 available as
Command channels - plus maybe 154.04 - ????

The only fire aircraft I know of in Siskiyou County are USFS aircraft
- 2 type 2 or 3 helos + 1 type 1 big helitanker + 1 air attack / lead
plane - I assume they sent at least a lead plane and a type 1
helitanker and helo 502 on the full wildland dispatch - maybe we can
find that on a radio tape

still checking !