Davis Fire Evening Operational Update - September 12, 2024

good afternoon Jason Clawson operation section chief with Southwest Team 1 have your afternoon operational update for the Davis fire first off I want to thank you all for your continued patience and support while we continue to uh added secured perimeter around the Davis fire and add additional containment today I'd like to give you an operational update and then I'd like to give you a little bit of explanation of what containment means and how we calculate containment around a fire area so biggest thing right now is that all containment lines all the way around the Davis fire are holding at this time absolutely no concerns we have Crews equipment engines all spread out around the entire fire working to mop up and secure the fire's perimeter division Papa on the east side just going around the whole fire all still very good control and monitor mop up status we are anticipating adding additional containment on the fire's Edge on the north west or northeast corner IND division Papa and Lima probably down somewhere around in this location here we still have a couple areas of isolated heat along the division Lima fire perimeter interior not right on the fire perimeter that we're working today to gain additional security of that fire perimeter the majority of our efforts um are in division Charlie and division Alpha that is where the majority of the heat remaining close to the line all along these areas uh uh is located crews are on the ground with hosels utilizing water and securing and mopping up those edges but I want do want to make an announcement to this afternoon we do have a couple of areas of isolated unburned Islands right in this area right in the division Charlie close to the division Alpha break totaling about 10 to 20 acres that uh that that's the smoke that you could see from town high up on the hill we are going to go ahead and burn out the rest of the vegetation so you will see a higher volume of smoke in the next couple of hours but those islands are well interior and we have firefighting resources on the ground uh ready to respond if needed but at this time we're not concerned about those escaping that's why we want to burn them out that way we can finish it off and minimize future smoke impacts future Smoke on the uh on the Davis fire so again you will see that a little bit higher higher volume of smoke coming from that the west side of the fire okay now I wanted to explain containment uh what exactly it is and how we calculate it uh across the fire area so when we show containment on a map that means that we have spent several days using all of our firefighting efforts our hand crws our engines uh working to extinguish all of those hot spots along that fire perimeter and depending on the fuel type depends on how far we feel comfortable going in mopping up let's say for in a lighter fuel type like this one uh the fire like it extinguish itself burns out very quickly and we're able to go in and just hot spot Cold Trail and make sure there's no isolated heat sources so those goes out very quickly but in areas where we have heavier timbered fuels that takes a lot more work to get that that fire line secure so it takes a lot of time digging digging with the dirt and hand tools and chainsaws and using water to mop up that basically ex extinguishing campfire if you if that makes sense but putting out all that heat and that heat we could be uh probably 100 feet 120 ft in off of that line until we feel comfortable showing that area of line contained so we don't want to show it contained until we feel confident that that line is secure and is not going to come across our line or there is no interior pockets of heat that could spot outside of our line so that that is what uh it takes several days to get to that point depending on the fuel type in the terrain now how do we calculate containment let's say for example the entire perimeter of this fire is about 42 miles let's say just hypothetically if it's 42 miles if we uh if we were able to calculate we want to block this about 18 miles of it so we're roughly in the 40 40 plus per of containment so that's uh that's how we do it we take the calculation of the uh the perimeter that we want to call contained and divide that by the overall perimeter of the entire fire and that's how we get our percent of containment and that is your afternoon operational update for the Davis fire thank you