r/Wildfire • u/fildlandwirefighter • 7d ago

Dillon fire

Anybody have a link to a briefing?

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u/AngelesNF_Chief1 7d ago

Briefing is being held at your mom’s house.

-chief 1

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u/YoyoWhatsUp007 6d ago

Ok humans, save this post…

ftp.wildfire.gov

Tap incident specific information… Tap the region where the fire is… Tap the year… Tap the fire…

Now you can tap the file for whatever you want, and they are usually updated daily… GIS = maps (ops-arche… is the preferred large scale ops map) Usually there’s an IAP folder.

For IPhone, but can be done with droid using however they lay out these functions.

Select that ops-arche map and use the square/up arrow to open it in Avenza. Then it will open Avenza and you can see that it’s downloading to it. Word to the wise, if you don’t have Avenza Pro it will only allow you to have 3 maps in there in order to have maps where your location is geo referenced onto the map, so you’ll have to delete some if you have too many.

In the IR folder, of the fires ftp site location, find the latest file that ends in “kmz” and download it to your device, for iPhones it says “save to files”

Open your ops map in Avenza, select the layers icon when on that map (it looks like 3 stacked squares)… select the + symbol, import layers, from storage locations, then usually the downloads folder, select the right kmz file you just downloaded to your phone…

This will add the latest IR layer onto your ops map…

Go back to the layers icon (the 3 stacked squares) for the ops map in Avenza, this opens your layers menu, hit the 3 horizontal dots to the right of the kmz file, select hide. Now tap the layer description (blah blahblah.kmz) Tap again. Tap 3 dots next to “fire perimeter” Select “show” and go back Tap 3 dots next to “Intense Heat” Select “show” and go back to your map.

Doing this gets rid of the vast proliferation of red dots that say “isolated heat” by keeping them hidden. I get rid of those because they grow and obscure the map when viewing it from a high perspective, and I don’t find them that useful.

Now go back to you map and tap the middle of all that opaque redness, it should say “fire perimeter”, not the one that says “intense heat”, so keep tapping till you get the fire perimeter illuminated.

Open that layer, scroll down to the opacity section select it and reduce it to 20%.

Bingo bango, you’ve now got the latest IR that likely was flown after they put the ops fire perimeter on today’s map…more accurate.

Now for the fun part. Download google earth on your phone…

Go into your phones files, find the kmz, open it, select the square/up arrow icon, “open with”, select google earth.

This will open google earth and you will see the IR layer overlayed onto the 3d google earth satellite imagery.

Now you can see the fire as it lays on the landscape.. you can zoom in and view different angles of it, you can see fuel types/transitions (that may no longer be representative) and rock outcroppings.

Sometimes I will screen-record me “flying the fire” by working the screen around the area I’ll be in so I can refer to it while not in service.

Sounds like a lot but when you get this down it’ll take you 5 mins to do all this, and you’ll have much better SA.

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u/concernedcitizen783 6d ago

thanks for spreading this to the masses. kinda scary how low-resolution, details-lacking OPS maps can be.

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u/Lopsided-Range-5393 7d ago

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1310234587422935&surface_type=vod&referral_source=vod_deeplink_unit

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u/fildlandwirefighter 7d ago

Sick

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u/Lopsided-Range-5393 7d ago edited 6d ago

Watchduty is your friend, my guy.

Edit: Fuck watchduty, all my homies hate watchduty.

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u/Organic_Rough7379 6d ago

I had the displeasure of meeting the watchduty founder a couple months ago. Complete douchebag. He talked at a conference and spent the whole time trashing firefighters, fire managers, and just about anybody involved in fire response. He, and he alone, was the true savior of the people, and everyone else was an incompetent fool. I was so angry I just left the conference. Wanted to punch the guy.

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u/Lopsided-Range-5393 6d ago

That’s fucked. We all know the real heroes are the brave contractors at Weed Wash. 😤

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u/Organic_Rough7379 6d ago

110% they are! Sacrificing their lungs by soaking up all those meth fumes thereby protecting everyone from accidental contact highs