Major fire up City Creek Canyon

[tyler1653]

Salt Lake Fire 2. Crews unable to make ground access. Helicopter and Air Tanker en route.
Anybody know what USFS freqs will be used?

 

[tyler1653]

USFS on 168.125

 

[Utah_Viper]

USFS on 168.125

Thank you Tyler !! Listening on SLC FD 2 and seems this is a very hard to reach area. The fire likely could get going very good. This could be the big one for the valley this year.

 

[tyler1653]

Air to Air on 127.475

 

[Utah_Viper]

looks like city is turning this one over to USFS. There Here is the best USFS List I could get, it is from the following link on the last pages of the document: http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/nuifc/mngmnt/docs/NUIFC_Incident_Organizer.pdf

USFS 168.12500 FM D
USFS Tac 1 166.24000 FM D
USFS Tac 2 166.96500 FM D
USFS Tac 3 166.11500 FM D
USFS Tac 4 156.06750 FM D
USFS Tac 5 168.17500 FM D
USFS Air 1 172.32500 FM D
USFS Air 2 171.57500 FM D

Bolded are the active USFS for the City Creek Fire

 

[gldavis]

Heard some comms on 164.1250 ref mopping up and overnight watching.

 

[gldavis]

So much for mopping up. Just dropped some Jumpers and it sounds like the fire is still active.

 

[Utah_Viper]

Storm front moving in the next few hours.... could really liven this thing up. So far have heard a few jumpers dropped, a couple choppers, also at least 2 heavy planes coming in soon. Thing is quiet now, but not given up the fight.

 

[Utah_Viper]

They have added a Flight Restriction for the area:
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_8_9861.html

 

[qlajlu]

KUTV video of Smoke Jumpers going in to fight the fire.

 

[qlajlu]

Fire Declared Contained

Salt Lake Tribune Story 7-31-2008

The City Creek Canyon fire is 75 percent contained this morning, and 120 firefighters have been demobilized as remaining crews work to douse remaining hot spots.

One helicopter is on standby, but a fire spokesman said the chopper likely will not be very active today. There are 85 remaining firefighters working in the canyon.

"Things are pretty well under control," said Jason Curry. "There are a few spots where we need to reinforce the lines and get things improved before we turn it over to the city folks."

Curry, who is investigating the cause of the fire, said he is looking at a couple different human causes.

"We've got to interview some people still," he said.

The blaze started early Tuesday and has burned about 130 acres. It is expected to be fully contained within the next few days.