fema daily headsUp for Weds Aug 26 2026

 National Current Ops / Monitoring – August 25-26, 2026

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
•  No new significant incidents / operations

Hazard Monitoring:
•  Severe Storms – Central Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley, and Great Lakes
•  Heavy Rain / Flash Flooding – Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys, Southeastern U.S.
•  Fire Weather – Central Great Basin and Northern Intermountain
•  Tropical Activity
    ○ Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Med (60%)
    ○ Eastern and Central Pacific:
      • Tropical Storm Lala
      • Tropical Storm Iselle
      • Disturbance 1: High (90%)
      • Disturbance 2: High (70%)
      • Disturbance 3: Med (60%)
      • Disturbance 4: Low (20%)

Disaster Declaration Activity:
•  Approval: Major Disaster Declaration – IN
•  Approval: Emergency Declaration – HI

Event Monitoring:
•  No new significant events

(Hawk Fire near Reno NV now shows as 47 homes destroyed and 8 homes
damaged - and zero other blds damaged or destroyed - which is a little
weird - but maybe that will get revised)

Charlie Kirk's assassination tests Trump's ability to help a nation heal

 Charlie Kirk's assassination tests Trump's ability to help a nation heal

With the killer still at large and a manhunt underway, Trump, in his video response, laid blame on familiar foils. In a message from the Oval Office on Wednesday, he singled out the “radical left” and made no mention of cases in which Democratic elected officials in Minnesota and Pennsylvania were targets of violent attacks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/charlie-kirk-assassination-tests-trumps-ability-help-nation-heal-rcna230563

dolly parton dead at 80

if you have cancer - check your vitamin d level immediately - per dr john campbell on yt - as we have posted many times before

NIFC is at Preparedness Level 5

 NIFC is at Preparedness Level 5

what does this mean actually?

seems to me that at Prep Level 5 - they activate coordinating teams at
the GACCs (regional dispatch centers) - they set the prioritys for
assigning resources to fires

the Prep Level 5 guidelines also might set certain special 'draw down'
levels on a regional basis - instead of requiring a minimum of 1 helo
at each Natl Forest in Calif - they might require 6 helos to cover ALL
of the Natl Forests in Calif - same goes for airtankers and lead
planes and hand crews and engines etc

what does this mean in the real world? lets look at California fire
helos - there might be 30 exclusive use fire helos for the feds in
Calif this year - that means that 30 helos are funded to be staffed
each day during the peak of fire season - maybe the draw down level is
6 helos when at Prep Level 5 - if all 30 EU helos are in use, then the
GACC has to come up with 6 more helos from somewhere - so they call
Boise and request 6 helos - Boise can then activate some 'call when
needed helos" - if no CWN are available - they can try calling the
military or national guard or Canada

We can see that Prep Level 5 basically means that there is a certain
level of "skeleton" crews available at all times in case additional
fires break out - but obviously response times will not be as fast as
at Level 1 thru Level ?4?

Prep Levels 1 thru 5 all have their own requirements / goals - you can
dig up the info by reading thru the mobilization plans

We dont know where they come up with the drawdown levels - but they
are probably based on 100 years of field experience and some real
world knowledge - I could write a draw down level requirement of 50
helos for California - but if there is 0% chance of getting 50 helos -
then it probably is useless to write it down

 National Current Operations / Monitoring – August 24-25, 2026

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Operations:
• No new significant incidents / operations

Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms – Central to Southern Plains
• Tropical Activity:
   ○ Atlantic:
      • Disturbance 1 (AL95): Medium (40%)
      • Disturbance 2: Medium (70%)
   ○ Eastern and Central Pacific:
      • Tropical Storm Lala
      • Tropical Storm Iselle
      • Tropical Storm Julio
      • Remnants of Moke
      • Disturbance 1: High (90%)
      • Disturbance 2: Medium (60%)
      • Disturbance 3: Medium (40%)

Disaster Declaration Activity:
• Major Disaster Declaration Requested – UT
• FMAG Approved: Ross Fire – TX

Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events

(fema has not listed the individual fires for 2 days now - the map
shows destroyed totals as - grasshopper - 9 homes destroyed and 26
Other blds destroyed - Rowe Creek Complex - 9 H + 24 O - mukluk - 44 H
- Hawk Fire near Reno - 38 homes destroyed)

china robots hold their own olympics

https://www.wcvb.com/article/humanoid-robot-beats-usain-bolt-world-record-video/73511301 didnt show the robot beating the "EMTs" to a pulp with the litter didnt show the kick boxer beheading 20 people

fema daily headsUp for Monday Aug 24 2026

 National Current Operations / Monitoring – August 23-24, 2026

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Operations:
• No new significant incidents / operations

Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms – Northern-Central Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley
• Tropical Activity:
   ○ Atlantic:
      • Disturbance 1 (AL95): Medium (50%)
      • Disturbance 2: Medium (50%)
   ○ Eastern and Central Pacific:
      • Tropical Storm Lala
      • Tropical Depression Moke
      • Tropical Storm Iselle
      • Disturbance 1 (EP91): Medium (40%)
      • Disturbance 2: High (80%)
      • Disturbance 3: Low (30%)
      • Disturbance 4: Low (20%)

Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity

Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events

(no listing of wildfires but the wildfire map shows Hawk Fire near Reno with 13 homes destroyed and Pine Tree Road Fire in Arkansas with 1 building destroyed - all other fires seem to be mostly unchanged)