Air and ground crews battle Santa Cruz Lake wildfire
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USFS Cibola and Santa Fe National Forests
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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not
an official report and may change.
00:00
Yeah, dad, you got that like heavy smoke sort of at the upper bowl, and you can just work your way on that outside of that.
00:08
Okay, take a look at it now, so I'll just stay to the west side of the smoke and then try to bring it in there to try to get up to the top, huh?
00:22
Just,
00:24
you know, the past few days of losing it and being bold in the evening, and just kind of stopped it before it progressed with an upper turn.
00:31
Okay, so I'll run it like I did the other night where I'll go from basically canyon, you know, like right through the middle of the canyon and then try to ring down in there.
00:40
That will work.
00:42
He's running both 30 and 20.
00:51
And we were just operating.
00:52
I know (name withheld) was saying something about
00:55
Albuquerque fuel there takes forever to get fuel.
01:01
Yeah, my understanding of the V bus to be on scene 1340.
01:04
So if you want to make this next V bus, go ahead.
01:10
Well, I don't need fuel or anything for this time here, so it'd be quicker for me to go to Albuquerque.
01:15
All right, Albuquerque, it is.
01:17
And then (name withheld), I don't know, but we put in a company put in request to do overnight in Albuquerque.
01:23
Is that okay if that could be set up tonight?
01:26
Yeah, remind me on my way out when we go to get fuel.
01:29
This is 104, clear to maneuver.
01:36
104, clear to maneuver.
01:38
Copy on that. I'll make the call.
01:39
One on the ground.
01:41
Okay, thanks. Appreciate it.
01:43
We have a bear tag sanitation.
01:45
All right, good luck.
01:52
So for that, we hold us air attack to two K.
02:00
Yes, (name withheld), I just got a call from the tower air center at the airport.
02:05
We are clogging the air space here inside because the tanker's going direct into Albuquerque.
02:12
Like to know because maybe access the tanker to the southeast and the mountain range into Albuquerque.
02:21
Not go so direct anymore.
02:25
And if we can have the air tankers monitor 132 decimal eight, so the Santa Fe towers can talk to them.
02:31
Two four, final live run.
02:34
Two four, have your final.
02:35
Here we go.
02:42
So
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if it becomes a
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deterrent for that, we can always change and everything go to Durango for those return.
02:56
Okay, base 132 is west of town.
03:06
Three two 5 min out, low for return.
03:08
Positive, you'll hear the Santa Fe.
03:11
Three two
03:12
5 min out, low for return.
03:14
I'll get there as soon as I can.
03:20
Don't worry.
03:23
Don't worry.
03:31
15 mile heavy smoke in sight.
03:34
And for dispatch, Santa Fe Tower is requesting tankers outbound for Albuquerque to remain on the east side, hug the mountain range to the east side of Santa Fe Airport, as well as monitor Tower 119.15.
03:50
104 copy, we'll hug the east side.
03:55
105, thanks.
04:05
Zero five, where we have a three.
04:17
All right, top of the fire is division alpha, and that's the smoke choppers.
04:23
They put in hand lines.
04:24
Bottom of the fire is division zulu, Santa Fe hotshots.
04:28
They're working to the west.
04:30
The west most smoke over the subject.
04:36
If you just send the planks to the fire, we'll see here.
04:41
And it progresses to the west every evening, so objective is to.
04:45
I
04:58
just had a monitor that.
05:09
It'll be definitely on the west flank for now.
05:14
And then they do have a spot across the drainage.
05:18
If it works with the helicopter, we have one CH 47 tank, eight Charlie hotel.
05:30
The spot does have Santa Fe One that's monitoring it, but there is no line around it.
05:39
And the only other helicopter is 341, that's the local light type 3, they do a logistical mission.
05:54
To the west is Santa Cruz Lake.
05:56
That's the good site.
05:57
About halfway up, there's a red roof.
05:59
We're calling that red chest.
06:08
Two helos, five off the south ridge line.
06:11
Went all the way to the west, one, and then all the way to the east, just outside the ridge guard east two.
06:19
Didn't have any logistical mention, but if you do, that's the location.
06:28
Now we have tanker 132,
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Albuquerque 104, Albuquerque 210, Durango 169, Durango.
06:49
That was my understanding.
06:51
I'll work out the logistics for
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tanker 104 to stay in Albuquerque.
07:06
And it's just been downflow thunderstorm winds, diurnal winds that keep blowing out to east flank.
07:13
If we get closer and closer to some entity.
07:17
Okay, yeah, looks like we're almost on the.
07:26
Already might be.
07:31
And it's.
07:37
Okay, it's coming on to me, and I got that long 4000 ft line along the west ridge and where we're going.
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