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jon zingale

Rio En Medio & Caja del Rio Fires

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Since, you know, there are Simtablers here, what should I know about the
possibility of evacuations in Santa Fe if anything?

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Steve Smith

Re: Rio En Medio & Caja del Rio Fires

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

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

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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Angel Edward

Re: Rio En Medio & Caja del Rio Fires

https://nmfireinfo.com/2020/08/24/burnout-operations-to-increase-smoke-on-medio-fire/

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On Aug 24, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> 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
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
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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Stephen Guerin-5

Re: Rio En Medio & Caja del Rio Fires

In reply to this post by Steve Smith

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 which Steve mentioned for notifications beyond relying on reverse 911.

The #MedioFire is being managed by the Southwest Type II Incident Management Team 4 with Incident Commander Schwope and Buck Wickham as the Operations Chief. Full roster

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:

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.

For example, this appears to be the "Air Attack" plane 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 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 <[hidden email]> 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

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

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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