Incident Name:
STATION

IR Interpreter(s):
Scott Wilkinson

Local Dispatch Phone:
661-723-2592

Interpreted Size:      156,966 acres

Growth last period:   2,124 acres (vs FIMT 20090906_2202 FirePoly)

Flight Time:        Flight Date:  
 
22:56 MDT                         09/06/2009

Interpreter(s) location: 
home office
Ouachita NF, AR
Interpreter(s) Phone:
501-538-5827

Regional Coordinator:
Kyle Felker                           Regional Coordinator Phone:

National Coordinator:
Barry Stern                              National Coordinator Phone: 
208-859-4475 office
 cell

Ordered By:
CA-ANF

Order Number:
A-261

Aircraft/Scanner System:
N144Z (Phoenix)

Pilots/Techs:
P:Tim Brady/Don
T: Charles Kazimir ("Kaz")

IRIN Comments on imagery:
4 strips provided (ortho/color/tiff/raw heat/mosaic).  Imagery clear, no humidity.   Due to steep terrain in east end of box, geo-rectification causes overlap in strips 2 &3 to be reduced, almost had gap.

Weather at time of flight:
clear, dry

Flight Objective:
 map heat perimeter and spots

Date and Time Imagery Received by Interpreter:
09/06/2009 22:45-23:09 PDT (color posted last)

Type of media for final product: shapefiles of perimeter , intense heat, spots outside heat perimeter

Electronic file sent to:  ftp.nifc.gov/Incident Specific Data/CALIF_S/2009 fires/CA-ANF-3622%20Station/IR

Date and Time Imagery Delivered to Incident:
heat perimeter/intense heat/heat outside shapefiles @  03:34 PDT;    11 x 17 .pdf @ 04:29 PDT

Comments /notes on tonight’s mission and this interpretation: The FIMT FirePoly perimeter shapefile dated 20090906_2202 was used as the base perimeter for tonite's IR heat perimeter.   This has been my SOP since about 9/1.    The IR heat perimeter was expanded where indicated by the imagery.    IR interpreted acres were calculated in GIS using the attributes table of the heat perimeter shapefile.   Growth last period shown above was based on difference in acres of the heat perimeter shapefile and the FIMT 20090906 firepoly.      Tonite's IR interpreted acres is less than last nights because the large unburned area west of Chilao was included within the IR perimeter last night, but not tonite (FIMT removed it from the firepoly shapefile for 09/06).   

Some fire growth occurred in the unburned area SW of Chilao helispot and west of Alder Saddle.  Significant growth occurred again north of  Hwy 2 between Three Points and Waterman Mt.   The fire has now moved almost to the bottom of Squaw Canyon.  Some growth eastward towards the head of Devils Canyon occurred.  
Three sources of heat outside the IR perimeter indicate spotting of about 1/10 mile. 

The only other significant perimeter growth was north of Cogswell Reservior,  and in fact heat has extended directly into what can only be assumed is the dry lakebed.    See the .jpg posted in today's IR folder for Google Earth image of the low reservior level.   The level apparently has dropped further since the 2006 image.   Point being, the water is not on fire!!  :)

Some isolated heat still remains within the Mt. Wilson burnout perimeter, otherwise very cool.    

Very minor amounts of scattered heat exists elsewhere across the east 1/3 of the fire, with isolated heat spattered throughout the other  2/3, and looking very cool.