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On July 24th, 2024, the Park Fire started near Bidwell Municipal Park in Chico, California. The fire quickly spread with rapid rates of spread and extreme fire behavior. The fire quickly burned through the 41,000-acre Ishi wilderness and has moved deeper on to the Lassen National Forest as well as private, state and other federal lands.
The Park Fire is a CAL FIRE incident but the US Forest Service and Lassen National Forest are fully engaged with our partners and working toward full suppression of this fire in order to protect our communities and natural resources.
For more information on the ParkFire please visit:
CALFIRE Park Fire: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/7/24/park-fire
Butte County Sheriff: https://www.facebook.com/bcsonews
CAL FIRE Tehama-Glenn Unit/ Tehama County Fire Department: https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRETGU
CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit/Shasta County Fire Department: https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRESHU
Butte County, CA: https://www.facebook.com/ButteCounty
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| Current as of | Mon, 08/12/2024 - 09:41 |
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| Incident Time Zone | America/Los_Angeles |
| Incident Type | Wildfire |
| Cause | Arson |
| Date of Origin | |
| Location | Upper Bidwell Park, Butte County, Tehama County, Shasta County |
| Incident Commander | Billy See - CAL FIRE IMT 3 Kristen Allison - USFS Dusty Martin - CAL FIRE IMT 4 |
| Incident Description | Wildfire |
| Coordinates |
39° 49' 7'' Latitude
-121° 48' 9
'' Longitude
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| Total Personnel: | 5,805 |
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| Size | 429,188 Acres |
| Percent of Perimeter Contained | 38% |
| Estimated Containment Date | 08/31/2024 |
| Fuels Involved | Fire is burning primarily in mature timber stands, with the dead and down fuels being the primary driver. On the Mill Creek Plateau, there is a more significant brush component, but timber/understory remains the dominant fuel. Overall, the primary fuel types burning are timber (understory and litter), grass, and brush (two-feet tall). |
| Significant Events | Fire continued to consume interior islands, pockets of unburned fuels and heavy dead and down materials in the timber understory. Short range spotting continued to challenge containment lines. |
| Planned Actions |
Branch V/XXV: Mop-up, make safe for repopulations, and continuing suppression repair. Branch XII: Mop-up, make safe for repopulations, and continuing suppression repair. Branch XV: Improving direct and indirect line as well as mop-up. Mitigating spot fires and protecting Hwy 36 and Turner Mountain communications infrastructure. Branch XVIII: Improving and constructing direct and indirect line, mop-up, mitigating spot fires. Branch XX: Mop-up, make safe for repopulations, and continuing suppression repair. |
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| Projected Incident Activity |
12 hours: Better overnight relative humidity recovery is expected, which will assist with control efforts. Heavy dead and down fuels will continue to burn out within the fire perimeter. 24 hours: Weather forecast is trending toward slightly cooler temperatures and higher relative humidity. However, winds are forecast to be fairly strong and gusty. Overall, conditions will be favorable for continued control of the fire, but spotting potential will continue. 48 hours: Weather trends continue to be favorable for control of the fire. Suppression will be difficult in heavy fuels and steep, rugged terrain. Spotting will continue to be the predominant threat to containment. 72 hours: As suppression continues and weather conditions improve, the threat of further fire growth will slowly diminish. Anticipated after 72 hours: As suppression continues and weather conditions improve, the threat of further fire growth will slowly diminish. |
| Remarks |
Zone Areas: The fire has been zoned into a Butte Zone and a Tehama Zone. Zone lines follow the Butte-Tehama county boundary, then north following Mill Creek. |
| Weather Concerns | This afternoon skies remained mostly sunny with areas of haze over the active areas of the fire allowing the inversion to break around 1200-1400 hrs which is earlier than the average this past week due to the lack of smoke. High temperatures topped out in the mid 80s above 5000 ft to the mid 90s lower elevations with minimum humidity values varying from the mid teens to low twenties. General winds started light then increased out of the south-southwest at 5-12 mph with a few gusts around 20-25 mph Branch XII along Highway 36 to the zone break/Doe Mountain after 1400. The forecast for tonight calls for better humidity recovery with values 30-40% lower elevations with 40-55% near the head of the fire in Branch XV - locally higher humidity lower Battle Creek and Mill Creek drainage. On Monday a weak dry cold frontal passage starts a slow cooling trend into the middle of the week, however, it will facilitate one last day of breezy afternoon winds with SW gusts of 23-27 mph - this will be adverse to the line in Branch XV along Highway 36. Going forward through the rest of week seasonably warm/dry afternoons will be followed by nights with moderate humidity recovery for much of next week. |
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