Update on the American fire

As of 8-22-13 - American fire moves into treatment area.Fire Status from Incident Report: Crews continued to mop up on the west and north sides ofthe fire to prevent any fire from potential hotspots from crossing established containment lines. This area will be patrolled by airresources today. Last night fire crews continued to hold and improvecontainment lines on the north-east and east sides of the fire. Aggressive fire suppression efforts have stopped fire movement southto south-west along the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the AmericanRiver. Efforts to contain the fire along the more difficult steep andhazardous terrain on the south and south-east perimeters has been verysuccessful and that area will now be patrolled for hotspots. Strongwinds produced hotspots outside the line on the north-east corneryesterday. Infra-red equipment detected these and were quicklyextinguished by crews. Crews will begin repairing areas damaged by firefighting activity. The fire is established in Antoine, Manilla and Scewrauger Canyons andbelow the Barny Cavanah Ridge. Consumption of heavy fuels willcontinue to contribute to smoke in surrounding areas.

Some resources:

• Incident Report: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/
• SimTable Report: http://apps.simtable.com/fireProgression/outputTemp/CA-TNF-HU11_%20american.html
• ESRI Online report: http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/?open=11487c248b3a407cb6fd446ce8ef73d8

We will keep you posted.

For more on the SNAMP project see: http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu/

This was originally posted on http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/.