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This year there will be a lot less ADs available to fill requests. A number of Forests have dropped any AD who is not assigned to a team. This will hit hard in the Logistics and Finance Sections.

Any radio that you modify will no longer be Type Accepted by the FCC and hence no longer be legal to use in the commercial and government frequency bands. Yes, the bandwidth can be changed by...

HTF 7105 is now the IC.

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Location: Western Reno south of Truckee River
Acres: 30
ROS: Rapid
ROC: High, gusty winds. Fire is in flashy fuels
Structures: are not currently threatened
Special Hazards:
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I just looked, and there is no "Ponderosa Fire" on Inciweb. Isn't that a basic way of disseminating fire information? The fire perimeter .kml files are very useful and Google Earth allows you to zoom...

:sorrow: This one should totally finish burning the entire Bilk Creek Range... At least it is getting some resources.

The Great Basin Situation report shows 33 major fires, some of which are complexes, and there are only 23 type 1 crews between them. They are parking engines and stripping the personnel off them to...

Helicopters and Type 1 crews are the real need. We have critical habitat that needs to be saved.

Bob is indeed going to the Washington Office as the Fire Ecologist. He may show up for a couple of days to help 'transition' the team to Tom Suwyn who will be the IC for the rest of the season. ...

It has now gone to 300 acres and Eastern Great Basin is reporting that they are ordering a Type 2 team.

Any word on a large fire on the Payette?

UT-NWS-Quail Fire Type 2 team ordered, Great Basin #7, Sommer. In-brief 1600 tomorrow.

That hotspot is on the upper end of the town of Alpine. There are evacuations and it is a big one... no name yet

EGBCC shows Rapp's Type 2 team from NWCC on this fire.

Location: 2 miles northeast of Ely
Acres: 5000
ROS: Rapid
ROC: The fire is burning in steep, rugged terrain and consuming pinion, sagebrush and grasses.
Structures: are threatened
Special...

Range Fire, ELD, 5000 acres started about 1215 today.

Just ordered 2 type 1 crews and 2 heavy helicopters.

They just called Brown's Type 3 team for the fire.

IC just told Minden that they should have this contained by this evening.