Wild land fire in Arapahoe county

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Surprised no one else has posted this..200+ acre wildfire currently ongoing in Arapahoe county. Missed the location but out on East Quincy someplace. Sounds like the wind is really moving it along. So far I only have the SO side. They are on Special ops 1, and of course On line.

1543: Asking for Rattlesnake fire to be put on "standby". Location CR 50 and Oak leaf? Asking for more cars Code 3 to help with Evac.
 
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Believe this is the same one working on FERN 154.280

It might be I just have the Sheriff side of it. I just google mapped it. Looks like it's East of E-470 and Quincy but that is just where they are asking for cars to help with the Evac. So I don't know where the main body of fire is..
 

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Arapahoe / Elbert Co: CR196 & CR 24 several hundred wildland fire with structure protection in place. Req M/A from multiple departments

Also have another one involving a house paged earlier in Weld County.

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South Metro, Cunningham, Aurora, Sable Altura, Bennett, Rattlesnake, Elizabeth, Strasburg, Buckley and Parker mutual aid being dispatched to 36,000 East Quincy.

FERN patch established to Metcom Ops 9.

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Arap County U/D: Sounds like they are getting a line around the fire, but Rattlesnake cmd now requesting the Simla tender mutual aid.

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I also heard Buckley had some fire units out on this too. Can the people on the Buckley system talk in real time to people on the state system? Or does that require a patch too?
 

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I also heard Buckley had some fire units out on this too. Can the people on the Buckley system talk in real time to people on the state system? Or does that require a patch too?

I'm sure Buckley has FERN Charles or the ability to patch to it.

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Saw it coming into DIA earler, around 1630. Winds were gusting to 40MPH at the airport at the time and the fires were long and narrow with the smoke being blown low along the ground to the SE.
 

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Opps fire was caused by Arapahoe County Bomb Squad training..

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I'm sure Buckley has FERN Charles or the ability to patch to it.

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Buckley Fire Dept. sent Tender 8 and the Command Unit with the on-duty chief. Their fire chief, who is also a Lt. and paramedic with SAFD, was in charge of staging. BFD also have several SAFD portables (800 DTRS) for mutual aid response. Fern was patched to the Bennett TG, and water supply was done on Bennett fireground TG. The fire dept's that were on scene according to PAR are: Cunningham, Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Sable Altura, South Metro, Simla, Kiowa, Rattlesnake, Buckley, and Elizebeth FD's. Not sure how reliable this is, as we were working the West Division, but after reporting to Staging after a last tender (tanker) refill, guys there were saying close to 500+ acres. Time to go and scrape the rest of the ice off our tender......

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Buckley Fire Dept. sent Tender 8 and the Command Unit with the on-duty chief. Their fire chief, who is also a Lt. and paramedic with SAFD, was in charge of staging. BFD also have several SAFD portables (800 DTRS) for mutual aid response. Fern was patched to the Bennett TG, and water supply was done on Bennett fireground TG. The fire dept's that were on scene according to PAR are: Cunningham, Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Sable Altura, South Metro, Simla, Kiowa, Rattlesnake, Buckley, and Elizebeth FD's. Not sure how reliable this is, as we were working the West Division, but after reporting to Staging after a last tender (tanker) refill, guys there were saying close to 500+ acres. Time to go and scrape the rest of the ice off our tender......

Frank


Wow interesting. Thanks for passing that on!
 

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Buckley Fire Dept. sent Tender 8 and the Command Unit with the on-duty chief. Their fire chief, who is also a Lt. and paramedic with SAFD, was in charge of staging. BFD also have several SAFD portables (800 DTRS) for mutual aid response. Fern was patched to the Bennett TG, and water supply was done on Bennett fireground TG. The fire dept's that were on scene according to PAR are: Cunningham, Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Sable Altura, South Metro, Simla, Kiowa, Rattlesnake, Buckley, and Elizebeth FD's. Not sure how reliable this is, as we were working the West Division, but after reporting to Staging after a last tender (tanker) refill, guys there were saying close to 500+ acres. Time to go and scrape the rest of the ice off our tender......

Frank

I was on the South Division, add MetCom, Castle Rock, Franktown, North Central & Elbert to the mutual aid list as well. I was told the temperature dropped 35 degrees when the front came through... nasty wind.

MAC 2 was used shortly after we arrived for the South Division, although most radios were still on Elbert County FG Red.
 
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Hello Eric
When we got on scene, we were instructed to initially stage on Quincy behind Bennetts command truck. The winds were really bad coming out of the west, then shifted out of the north. It wasn't cold, but as I posted earlier, at the end, equipment was starting to freeze. Did MetCom actually use a FERN patch or another channel on their DTRS TG's? I know at one point FERN was patched with Bennett TG but did not hear any South Metro or Castle Rock traffic. Thats also where I got my department list when a fireground PAR (by dept. and unit/personnel) was conducted.

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MetCom Ops 9 was patched to FERN also for all of the south area resources. We were evaluating a field patch between MAC 2 & EC Red but the incident quickly stabilized. Very little South Metro radio traffic occurred since the majority of the time was spent in staging. I think the taskforce did one patrol and then got demobed.
 

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the funny part is fires are such a big deal with Arapahoe County....ie 3 car code 3 responses with supervisors, command posts, detectives, etc...etc....sort of ironic that they'd spark one up
 
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