[FRIAM] Rio En Medio & Caja del Rio Fires

[Stephen Guerin]

Yes, Steve summed it up well. Both fires seem relatively low risk - though
that could change with wind gusts, spotting and/or lightning.

You should register with AlertSantaFe
<https://www.santafenm.gov/alertsantafe>which Steve mentioned for
notifications beyond relying on reverse 911.

The #MedioFire is being managed by the Southwest Type II Incident
Management Team 4
<https://gacc.nifc.gov/swcc/dispatch_logistics/overhead/overhead.htm>with
Incident Commander Schwope and Buck Wickham as the Operations Chief. Full
roster
<https://gacc.nifc.gov/swcc/dispatch_logistics/overhead/imt/Rosters/2020/Team_4_Initial_Roster_2020.pdf>

This morning's Ops briefing by Buck is here:
   https://www.facebook.com/santafeNF/posts/2549843461904720

There is a nightly community briefing at 6p here
<https://www.facebook.com/santafeNF>:

Interactive PIO Map on Medio Fire is here. Which shows prior fire history
and current perimeters:
https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=4925ec13d6bd41538157172dcb9462ed&fbclid=IwAR2-7jcZXi_eetrO0unz47LxZsvVZK2A21iqBmXImsUoSWCPAUoMe5xlyAw


@Bewickwren "CommonRaven" is an active Fire follower on Twitter. She was
mentioning the pilots that were doing double-duty on both fires which you
can track on FlightRadar24.com.

[image: image.png]

For example, this appears to be the "Air Attack" plane
<https://www.flightradar24.com/B58T/254f663d> which you can tell by their
flight path as clockwise at a constant altitude serving as air traffic
control while most other traffic is counter clockwise. Nice explanation of The
Stack <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fjF2KQ75TY> here:

Santa Fe County was managing the #CajaFire but it looks like another Type
II team is in bound.

-Stephen


On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:39 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> I don't know much myself..   there is a local (pilot?) who is tracking
> things (on the new Caja fire) closely (because the fire is close to the
> airport?) and is apparently flying over right now:
>
> https://twitter.com/Bewickwren/status/1297981293624463360
>
> Stephen has a "crew" of students photographing the Medio fire and there
> are a few reports coming through twitter on
>
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedioFire?src=hashtag_click
>
> and InciWeb has *this* information.
>
> https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7031/
>
> Google just started publishing KML for MODIS (and other satellite imaging)
>
>     https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/googleearth.php?sensor=modis&extent=conus
> <https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/googleearth.php?sensor=modis&extent=conus>
>
> I've been trying to photograph (to contribute above) plumes from *my* side
> of the valley... here IN the valley and up the Los Alamos Hill perspective
> but the smoke is so pervasive that I really haven't been able to identify a
> "plume" from Rio en Medio in days.   My ISP (CNSP) is a tight-beam from
> Tesuque Peak and I understand from them that they are running on generator
> power there, so I'm (vaguely) expecting to lose internet "soon"...
>
> I get the feeling that the Pacheco burn scar from years ago has provided a
> modest fire-break.
>
> Any evacuations from direct fire-threat would obviously be most likely in
> the Tesuque hills area, though *smoke* might lead folks to want to evacuate
> otherwise.  I drove into Pojoaque yesterday and the smoke was pretty harsh
> there (just downhill/down-watershed from the fire)... it sounds like SFe is
> getting it too... with the Caja (much smaller, less fuel) on the opposite
> side of town, it might mean that shifting winds just change which smoke you
> get?
>
> Los Alamos is "up above" most of the smoke from my perspective...
>
> Stephen can probably vouch better for how well SFe's emergency alert
> system works... but here is their link ifyou don't have it:
>
>     https://www.santafenm.gov/alertsantafe
> <https://www.santafenm.gov/alertsantafe>
>
> I hope this is somehow helpful...
>
> - Steve
> On 8/24/20 1:42 PM, jon zingale wrote:
>
> Since, you know, there are Simtablers here, what should I know about the
> possibility of evacuations in Santa Fe in anything?
>
>
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