Vegetation Fire J59/HWY 108 Tuolumne County

Chinese Camp Ca. CalFire is dispatching a Full Wild Land Response to a Vegetation Fire near J59 and Hwy 108. Please use caution in the area with this incident and CalTrans working in the area.

Update 11:28am CalFire Units will be in extended Mop Op Operations on this incident. Thank you for the great job Fire Fighters.

Update: 11:21am Per AA440 jut around 55 acres in total.

Update 11:14am Releasing some air support at this time. Progress going good.

Update 11: 07 FORWARD PROGRESS STOPPED. Working on full containment.

Update: 10:54 Crews are making very good progress on this incident and hose lays should be tying in soon. The area is what is called Mobile Friendly so the Engines can drive it and fight it.

Update 10:50 Per the IC 10-15 ac making good progress pot 20-30 ac

Update: 5 ac no structure threat. East side of J59 about 1 mile from the Green Springs CalFire Station.  AA440 is beginning to work 2 Tankers and Copter 404 to box this fire in until more ground resources arrive on scene.

WIDE 59

Incident: 00315 Type: Report of Fire Location: Sr59 / Sr108 Loc Desc: Lat/Lon: 37.843344 -120.508025
Detail Information
10:32 AM 2 [2] XFR CAL FIRE
10:31 AM 1 [1] FIRE JUST STARTED
Unit Information
10:34 AM 2 Unit Assigned
10:34 AM 1 Unit Enroute