McNay Fire - Larimer County (CO)

[crazy88]

150 Acre wildfire (and growing) Located on CR74E at Milepost 10 between Livermore and Red Feather Lakes that initially started as motor vehicle fire.

Radio Channels as of 15:37:
Larimer County Fire Dispatch
Colorado Mutual Aid NE Channel 7
CO6 Air/Air 1
Roosevelt NF - North District

Resources on scene:
Larimer County Sheriff Emergency Services - Comm van, Initial Attack Module, Engines
Division of Fire Prevention & Control - SEAT 862, 813
Poudre Fire Authority - Type 6 Engine and Type 3 Engine
Wellington Fire Protection District - Type 3 Engine
Loveland Fire Protection District - Type 3 Engine
Livermore Fire Protection District - several units
Red Feather Lakes Fire Protection District - several units
Glacier View Fire Protection District - several units
UCHealth LifeLine - LIFE 1 helicopter - initial reconnaissance of fire
Colorado State Patrol - traffic control
Poudre Valley REA - de-energizing lines around the fire
Probably many more agencies and units

Resources ordered up as noted by RMACC Predictive Services:
100-150 acres. 1 Air Attack, 1 Lead plane, 1 Large Airtanker, 3 Single Engine Air Tankers (2 on scene as of 15:47) , 1 T3 Helicopter.

 

[crazy88]

Air Resources committed so far:
T-862 SEAT based out of Loveland, CO
T-864 SEAT based out of Loveland, CO
T-813 SEAT based out of Grand Junction, CO
T-10 based out of Broomfield, CO
T-168 based out of Elko, NV
Wildland 28, multi mission aircraft (fire mapping) out of Centennial, CO

Fire is now at 400 acres and 7% containment as per Larimer County Sheriff

 

[poltergeisty]

I got a text message and email on this about a power outage there until the afternoon or latter tonight.

 

[poltergeisty]

Here is three hours of audio from this event. I record Loveland PD, Loveland Fire and Larimer County Fire so you'll hear all three, but mostly Larimer Fire since they were the most active.

Audio was originally recorded as three separate wav files at 8 KHz, 8 bit mono, spliced together as three hours worth of audio in MP3 VBR with a range of 32 Kbps-192 Kbps mono high quality with the audio amplified.

Starts at 12:00 to 15:00. File is self-extracting. Click me

SHA256: 87a553ab39ba25cc81577c7dc8e596b5f1167efbdf0495c5f7c0ed4b37481cc6

 

[crazy88]

Did the initial call come in as an EMS call? I feel like they were trying to get access to a house and the fire was a secondary call. Livermore had the initial call and from there the County was ordered up. (I could be way off). They had the Lifeline helicopter circling around the area in the very early stages of the fire. My internet is crummy where I’m at so I can’t open your file yet.

Today’s update from LCSO: 560 acres, 100% contained, 9 personnel monitoring it today.

 

[poltergeisty]

Did the initial call come in as an EMS call?

I'm not sure. I'd have to go back and listen again and see if I caught the page.