Active wildfire burning near Morgan Kenyon Road in Fresno, Fresno County CA


A wildfire is actively burning near Morgan Kenyon Road in Fresno County, California. Firefighting efforts include air attack, dozer lines, and retardant drops. Helicopters and ground units are responding, and a black pickup is stationed at the end of a nearby driveway to assist responders.
Audio|Source: Air Base (FAT): CHP/Sheriff/Cal-Fire/Air Attack
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Transcript:
00:00
The project started.
00:08
Your front. Let me get turned back around, yeah.
00:10
Up towards where they finished off the furthest north, you'll be able to see it's right off the west side of the Dozer line.
00:17
Okay, getting back, turn around.
00:18
One to one, we've got enough to this.
00:20
Plus, air attack[1].
00:21
Good on your cell? Yeah.
00:23
One-two-one, your shoulder's peel? One straight on fuel.
00:26
That's the one.
00:27
That's uh 516.
00:29
Everybody's clear that we're going to come in with the retardant[2].
00:31
Try to tie it back into the dozer line[3].
00:34
Fire. Fire. I got 914 there.
00:36
I got you that just went underneath seeing something start a return and try and join the behind them.
00:40
I'll orbit over there on that side.
00:43
Put pink stuff on red stuff.
00:45
From there, 37-3-ney air attack[1], it's going to be just off your nose, kind of as the, uh, the Dozer Line makes those up in there.
00:53
We'll come over it now.
00:56
Okay, so we come back around as it was turn and take a few.
00:58
Let me up a coverage level 8 please.
01:01
One-two-one.
01:02
I'm back at your 8 o'clock.
01:04
I'm just getting so I can see out the left here.
01:06
It's going to be some start stops.
01:07
I'll have you put a, probably let you loose down in here by yourself just to stay out of you.
01:11
If you've got all the room to maneuver, when you come around on the left, I'll throw some smoke over top of it here.
01:16
What do you think? One on the bottom side and then just flank it back up to the dozer line[3]?
01:23
I think that would be just fine.
01:25
Go ahead. See how this looks if you do this out of the left and see how comfortable this is if you want to do it out of the left.
01:31
I'll just see that extra.
01:32
All the way around.
01:35
Stamich-clotho, sir, sir, a second.
01:37
Near Morgan Kenyon Road R.P. stated he will be in a black pickup at the end of the driveway.
01:40
You're responding on incident number (number withheld).
01:44
1-2.21, Charlie 7, trainee, taxi.
01:47
Go ahead. Okay, I'll let you...
01:54
And do we want direct on there? Yeah, fairly direct.
01:57
I'd start with down below it.
02:01
We'll just continue to turn all the way around to a downwind.
02:04
And do you want to just go on my own and let you know when I'm finished?
02:06
Yep, I'm going to let you loose.
02:10
You go right ahead.
02:11
I'm going to keep the left turn coming all the way around and I'll stay inside your turn. We're turn to left down one.
02:16
Negative Reedley Hillibase.
02:18
This loss outshots, air attack[1], aired around command.
02:21
I come live runs this time with a tick or drop.
02:24
There's that trial.
02:25
It's going to be a couple of runs, a couple of passes from that two ones.
02:28
It's all confirmed.
02:29
It's clear in there. One's on the left base.
02:30
Have your face, one to the door.
02:46
Agent 74 responding, (number withheld) Morton Canyon, turn out of responsible fall patient.
02:50
Agent 74 additionally, there'll be a black pickup truck to guide you at the bottom of the driveway.
02:56
Fresno, Agent 74, causal.
02:59
Malacritory-3-1. Resonnell brush 64 available. Rush 64 are available.
03:04
Probably seven training airtights.
03:08
Okay. So whether I'm going to place an order for a pipeline skycreen helicopter or something that's awesome.
03:11
Okay. I think I'm going to go for the right plank now.
03:13
That'll be uh, continue that left turn and then the last one will be a right turn. I'm sorry, let's start over.
03:17
I'm going to do a left turn for the right flank.
03:19
Got it.
03:20
And with that, you want to go with a six, we can get a little mileage. Go ahead. Two tanks, skycranes. We're going to be reporting to Shaver Lake.
03:23
Division, Juliet, and Gulf. They'll come in the north route, contact airtight. Order two tanks, skycrain helicopters. We're going to be coming in the north route, working Division Golf.
03:32
They'll be going to Shaverlake. I see you're ordering to (number withheld). All that's at least 101 degrees to 3.5-0.
03:43
Correct. 35-5-3-5-3-7-0. I just found a holiday. Let's slide well out to the south and go help with 914. I'll be out of your way. I'll let you talk directly to the airtime.
03:57
...and Alpha Bravo and 5 Realm ULF. In fact, uh, Alpha. Can I get a time-on-see-ness in time? You guys? 27 training tactics on April.
04:07
7 training.
04:09
Hey I'm going to let 1-21 go to the rest with you in that working area and I'm going to roll with your back to the number 0-405-1-4.
04:16
Okay, copy that. Charlie 7, 2-10-12 miles. Number 137 open to it 3-0-7.
04:23
This is in at 6,000 to be number 3.914. Take her one-two-one is back at the one-thand-in-year-worded spot fire. So that would be used up the street.
04:31
I'm down at 5.5 million. They're back at nine. Helicopters seven below.
04:35
Zero seven, six thousand. And, um, so we're, we'll come to you, Dale? Any work? We're just... east of the working area, the last place you were, one-to-one is back a few miles to the storm.
04:42
So you originally started that north-south, retardant[2], north of the Oval Gautown.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
air attack: Aerial firefighting coordination
[2]
retardant: Aerial fire suppression chemical
[3]
dozer line: Firebreak created by bulldozers
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Fresno County, CA
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