The Post Fire - at Gorman California - in the NW corner of Los Angeles County
( this is my first draft - it might be 90% accurate )
Initial Dispatch at 1350 hours local
Los Angeles County sent E77 / E477 + Patrol 77 + E149 + E76 + E78 +
E124 + Batt 4 + Bat 11 + Copter 21 + Copter 12 - Copter 12 had to fuel
up before responding as they had just cleared an earlier call
Kern County sent E356 E357 Batt5 Dozer1 Dozer2 and Helo 408
Angeles Natl Forest sent - at 1353 hours - LPFE374 (yup anf dispatches
1 lpf engine - it runs from an anf fire sta) -+ E314 + E316 + E310 +
E10 + Patrol 35 + Div 1 + Div 2
Comm plan was - Command on LA County V1 - Primary Tac was VFire 22 -
2ndary Tac was VFire 23 - air to ground was V9 direct - Air Tac was
Air Tac 74 - victor was 118.95
comms on the V1 repeater system was pretty darn good - seemed that all
the portable radios were working great - simplex comms were also used
on V1 - dispatcher was duplex - dispatcher audio was equal to mobile
audio during doubles
E77 mobile computer was not working very good - they didnt get the
comm plan initially
la county paged out some units on "Dispatch"
never heard any hand crews mentioned
initial comms from E77 to dispatcher were on "Dispatch 1" - E77 then
moved to V1 with everyone else
actually - E77 responded in Eng 477 - meaning - they left the TY1
structure engine at the station and took the TU3 engine
first radio messages
150 PM - E477 tells E124 to set up at helispot 77 Echo - this is sop
for la county fd
dispatcher says receiving multi calls for a brush fire - 153 pm
E149 reports heavy traffic on I5 northbound - units might be delayed - 155 pm
CHP reports horse trailer involved - fire jump roadway - 157 pm - per dispatcher
157 pm Patrol 77 reports onscene with 1/4 acre of grass and a spot
fire to the north along the off ramp - winds from north at 15
Eng 77 arrives at 158 pm ish - have Kern E356 go to fire to north -
request 2nd alarm
200 pm - LPFE74 says something
204 pm - E356 at northern fire
216 pm ish - airtankers 76 and 100 on the way - LA City Fire 5 helo on
the way - Air Attack 12 assinged
207 pm - kern county helo 408 has 20 minute eta
209 pm - request 3rd alarm - cars exploding - fire spotting 1/4 mille
- request evacs
211 pm - kern county batt 5 calling IC - no reply
212 pm - E149 ETA is 5 - told to go to Frazier and loop back down
Ralph Road and become Zulu sector
214 pm - squad 149 eta 2 - will be medical sector at ICP
214 pm - co[ter 21 at scene
214 pm - tankers expected to arrive at 1430 hours
215 pm - copter 12 now enroute - eta 18 minutes
216 pm - E76 eta 3
218 pm - Eng 78 and Patrol 78 at scene - took them 28 minutes to
arrive - iirc E76 and E78 are down in Los angeles city at sylmar and
or chatsworth - maybe not that far south - but obviously is a very
long run for a first alarm unit - but it is what it is - there are no
closer units to Gorman - except for maybe 1 Kern engine at ?mentone ?
but to review - sta 77 and kern 56 and kern 57 all left their type 1
engines in their stations unstaffed - they got rid of the volunteers
back around 1976 iirc - so there aint no one to staff the extra units
some of the anf units had to drive thru los angeles city to get to the
fire - such as E10 and E310 from Tujunga Canyon - again - there is no
one closer
not sure if ANF or LPNF sent their helos - there was no mention of
them - lpnf helo at chuchupaite should have been only 5 minutes flight
time from the scene - at the anf helo from fox field could have beat
the la county helos probably
the kern county helo must have come from the east side of the county
not sure if the chuchupaite helo is staffed yet in mid June
and sierra nf and blm might have had helos available at bakersfield
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