Lowell Fire,Nevada county ca

[Daveroo]

this took off during the afternoon saturday,so far its burned 1500 acres,,when it started it became a "monster" right away,the first in unit,just simply said,,this is gonna be big...then asked for more help and every air tanker you can get me!!

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this is a cool pic,,people relaxing and enjoying their day at the Rollins lake,with a big header right behind them,and what i believe to be the DC 7 T-60,it was working the fire on Saturday,but wasnt there on Sunday.

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Tanker Tens T911 was working it both days so far,and she came down from Washington state i think,he called in when he was still over Oregon..not on the radio to the air attack,but came through "flight following" and the dispatcher told the IC.

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just a cool pic.

i forgot to add,4 fire fighters were "life flighted" to the UC Davis medical center,they are a trama center,all four had burns after then were "burned over" saturday evening around 5pm.

[trucker17]

Yep that looks like a bad one.

[Dev One]

Not seen any pictures, but there is a very large forest fire near Bordeaux in S.W France, lots of residents evacuated apparently. Not sure about aerial activity.
Keith

[Daveroo]

this lowell fire has "taken off" once again..they are getting winds..im thinking the winds are also fire driven.i dont know any additional arcerage as yet..but theyve called for atleast 4 more tankers in the last 30 minutes.as i listen now,they seem to be trying to find a dozer that may have been over run...they had an engine over run last night ..4 injuries..