Nice job!

"Pounced" is right! It was amazing to watch. Thank goodness there were so many resources nearby. I went outside around 5 PM because I heard the air support and thought that maybe the super tanker was headed for the Motion or Whiskeytown fires. When I saw the fire cloud over by Iron Mtn Rd, I nearly had a coronary, as it was very, very close. I could even see some huge trees on fire, which was really scary. The firefighters did an incredible job. Thank you guys so very much!! Yeah, this is going to be a very long summer. I'm with you, Nina Hucke, I'm going to keep my stuff ready to evacuate.

Good news: The Sierra club's only 15 dollar membership offer has been extended.

I hope you will join and ask the leadership to sue to prevent diesel powered fire engines and bulldozers from operating in California. Fire fighters should arrive on the site in Priuses and throw buckets of sand on the flames. By all means, bulldozers must be stopped. What they do is make very long clear cuts a dozer blade wide, and as they do so they murder our sacred trees.

Are you joking? Or are you serious? If the fire fighters didn't make those large cuts around the fires they would never be able to stop the fires. The vacant areas are needed so the fire has no fuel to burn and just burns its self out. I hope you are joking about the bulldozers. Because that is just a ridiculous statement.
Everyone, be safe.

This response was larger than any veg. fire weve had yet. Absolutely awesome. They even pulled out fire fighters who were feds probably getting a well deserved break, right at the motion line, (shf) to fight this one. Absolutely awesome job guys. Seven air tankers, if I remember. A little problem using tach 9, but everything happened so fast. Way to go, keep up the good work. Air power knocked out the spot that started 1/4 mile away. As far as I know, no one hurt. No houses ect lost. Amazing, as I know structures and schools were very close.

Secondclass........Sarcasm is a mostly wasted form of comedy. Enviro's are saying very little about the greenhouse gases. PM 10's etc. being produced by these massive fires. I am sick of fire, the air tastes like dust and old stale socks.

Secondclass... you really are!!

Come on, secondclass's post was practically dripping sarcasm. Unfortunately, sarcasm doesn't always come across as good as in person when it's in a blog....but the sentiment is true. My grandfather always said you could always follow the trail of a Sierra Clubber in the wilderness....just follow the trash and toilet paper....

I must say that some of us here in Old Shasta were worried if we had another emergency, with our firefighters and equipment spread so thin, but what an awesome job and impressive turn out.
A huge thanks to CDF, Shasta FD and all of the other firefighters for a job well done!

IMHO - -every vegetation fire should be pounced on like this one - it costs less to have a quick and heavy attack than a long and destructive fire fight campaign. Am I correct?

I agree with Spencer... secondclass you really are!!!! Environmental laws do not prohibit firefighting. Besides the lightening some of these fires are the result of years and years of fire SUPPRESSION.

Yep, we here at the far northern end of Iron Mountain Rd are VERY relieved...10 days of road closures to our house and mandatory evacs have fried (pun intended) our nerves. Fire crews are AWESOME and I truly cannot imagine how they live with this stress, day in and day out, for an entire SEASON!

FYI--Motion Fire crew just came to our door to let us know they are beginning a back fire just north of us and will have 2 engines here "just in case." People will soon see lots of smoke to the north....hope this saves those who will read it some worry.

The Response yesterday was amazing! Four tankers made a series of drops, left to fill up and came back to drop again! They also sent over Black Hawk helicopters from Whiskeytown to assist with other spots that might flare up.It was just fantastic. I think the fire started when a truck driving down Iron Mountain broke an axle, setting off sparks.

Thanks for the FYI definitely saves some of us down here on Rock Creek some worry. Sooo glad to hear you folks have been able to return home. This is going to be a long fire season, hope these informative blogs continue.

I live at the south end of Iron Mtn and this fire burned within 100 yrds of our back property line. I was unsure when I pulled on to Iron Mtn road yesterday at 5:00 if I would still have a house by the end of the evening. Thank You, thank you, thank you to all the firefighters who got this thing under control quickly and before it did too much damage!!! Thank you to the crew from the RFD who parked their truck at our house until everything was safe!!! And thank you to the gentleman in the white truck (whose name I did not get) who stayed with me as I watched the fire burn and kept reasuring me that my house was okay and kept me from completely panicing until my husband arrived. Thank you all!!!

You're dead on with the response. What you saw was a typical 'high response' that is given when conditions get ripe (low RH, high temp, or winds). Works like a charm when resources are available. Trouble two weeks ago, too many fires, too few resources. Dozens of 1/4, 1/2, 1-2 acre fires that were extinguished PDQ. It's the ones that got away that we're now dealing with.

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Yes, thanks for the info; this will indeed save those of us in the neighborhood some worry. Like pv96087, I'm glad to hear that you've been able to return home. Hope everyone and their homes stay safe.

BTW, our phone service is out and when I checked, service wasn't due to be restored until Monday, July 7. Maybe the transmission lines got damaged in the fire? Does anyone know?

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What is the lady doing with the hose?

Well done! That fire was well managed and out quickly.

If it got away there could have been a major disaster with all the homes in that area.

I don't care what you say, I've paid close attention to many of the fires we've had here and that response was way over the top. Seven air tankers in this enviroment, two helicopters when I hear time and time again NO airpower available, they got the priorities right, they did the job, and you have to give Shasta County Cal Fire a big Congrats on this one. GOOD JOB GUYS.