Listening to the Erskine Fire radio tape
Fire started June 23 2016
Times given are just the markers on the radio tape - they are not the real times
1350 - 3 beeps - first alarm interagency - sta 72 area
1420 - tone sets start - 8 or more tone sets are transmitted - 1 sec
tone followed by 4 sec tone for every set
1500 - tone sets stop
call is announced
first alarm interagency - station 72 area - key map 69? 6 Boy -
Erskine at Appollo - Crew 10 - Bat 4 - Bat 7 - 2 dozers - E336 - E371
- Helo 407 - WT11 - Patrol 72 - Pat 78 - Eng 376 - Crew 11 - A/G 41
167.475 - Tac is NIFC Tac 2 - Kern 3 - VFIRE 23 - still pending on a
Fire name
phones ringing in background
first mention of address came at 1530 which was 100 seconds after first 3 beeps
units sign on
1840 - lite smoke showing per 72
2134 - P72 tells E72 that route in is flagged
2348 - E72 reports 2 acres - multi spots - starting to run up the hill
2508 - Helo 407 signs on from Keene - 2 SOB - 2 hours of fuel - ETE 17 minutes
2726 - Company 76 at scene - ("1608" is the time stamp from the
dispatcher - i can use this to calculate all of the real times)
2837 - 72 wants 76 to protect the structure to the North - 76 OK
2917 - Bat asks 72 if he needs more resources - 'I will decide in a
moment - 1 structure is threatened - I can protect it if 1 resource
gets in here - (otherwise) "it will just run up the hill from there"
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openness - news media didnt play that part of the tape
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At this point it seems that they sent just about every fire truck in
the area immediately - but maybe they didnt send them to the right
side of the hill - that will take more study to uncover.
I noticed that E72 was not sent but they did respond. Like I said
before - each of the Kern County stations has 3 people on duty 24/7;
and each station has a big pumper and a small pumper - i dont know if
they roll both rigs at the same time or not. Something tells me that
there are absolutely no volunteer firefighters; and off duty staff are
not (promptly) used.
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