Camp Incident Chronology 11/8/18

06:31am Pre-Announcement

06:31 Dispatch B2118, P2121,T2107,E2176, E2161, E2167, E2186, E2186, E2182, E2162, TD2140, 

TD2142, BFC1, BFC2, BFC3. 

06:44 ROC and Resource Request -15 additional Engines, 4 Dozers, WT’s, 4 STG – these were all sent up 

to NOps.

ST 9120C HUU (was on a LNU Preposition) eta 0900

ST 929231C NEU eta 0830

ST9250C TGU eta 0900 

06:45 E2161 - have E2176 evacuate Pulga. 

06:50 WT-AC unknown 

06:52 WT25 responding

06:54 E2161 - request a mandatory evacuation order for Pulga and stage resources at Scooters.

06:55 ECC called BCSO requested Mandatory Evacuation order for Pulga

06:58 B2119 responding 

07:02 E37 staffed responding

07:03 WT45 responding

07:03 E2161 – what’s the projected fill on the augmentation resources?

07:04 advised IC possible 2nd fire Rim Rd area vs. evacuations 

07:05 E2186 & E2167 change in assignment, check Rim Rd for 2nd fire

07:09 WT64 responding

07:09 U44 w/FC Dyer responding

07:10 E2161 reporting 200-300 acres rapid ROS burning towards Concow Lake 

07:11 E2182 arrives staging

07:12 BFC2 and U2141 arrives staging

07:14 WT25 arrives staging

07:14 B2118 assumes IC – E2176/E2167 Structure defense. – 2 STC 1 from HUU/LMU – (not driving 

from)

07:15 WT42 responding
07:16 BFC2 arrives staging

07:17 – Re-assessing Evac warning with IC – likely evac warning in Concow area

07:18 WT27

07:18 E2163 sent to cover F.S. 35

07:20 D2102 responding

07:21 CAMP IC – Pulga has been evacuated. If you could make notifications, request representative to 

Scooters. Have the Sheriff respond to Camelot area for evacuations. 

07:22 CAMP IC – Request evacuation warning for the Concow Area – working on exact area and 

warning/order. 

07:22 ECC called BCSO requesting mandatory evacuation warning for Concow Immediately. 

07:23 P2127 responding

07:24 B2111 responding

07:24 E2162 arrives staging

07:24 E2163 en-route cover F.S. 35

07:25 Correction on fill information one ST from HUU 0900, other from NEU unknown eta. 

07:26 CAMP IC – shut down HWY 70 & standby for resource order. Close Hwy 70 from Pentz to Belden.

07:28 Fill information on second ST from NEU responding from Dobbins to Scooters. CAMP IC

07:31 13390 Meadow Springs Rd – fire in backyard – given to IC

07:32 CAMP IC – EVAC warning Pentz RD west side. 

07:32 B2117 & B2113 in service

07:33 CAMP IC – Resource Order 15 STEN, 15 STG, 10 STL with appropriate overhead.

07:34 CAMP IC – priority traffic given to IC 3488 Hoffman Rd.

07:35 Staging relocated to Pines Hardware Hwy 70

07:36 asked CAMP IC – if he wanted evac mandatory

07:36 relayed to Camp IC – now reports of fire in Kirby Creek area. 

07:37 E2154 arrives F.S. 36 covering

07:37 Staging and ICP – Staging moved to Yankee Hill Hardware 

07:39 D2102 check with NOps request all tanker bases be earlied up and once in area will advise on IMT 

order

07:39 BFC1 responding from BFC
07:40 E2184 available F.S. 36’s area covering

07:40 T2107 needs 5 STEC on Hoffman Rd can’t get a hold of Camp IC – request relay info.

07:42 T2107 reporting 4 spots across lake – believed he is speaking about Concow Lake, and confirmed 

by IC.

07:44 CAMP IC requesting additional Tac Nets 

07:44 ECC takes call at 1900 Drayer Dr/Pentz Rd reporting fire on the Paradise side of canyon – reporting 

3 spots

07:45 Camp IC – Were extending the mandatory evac zone to east of Pentz Rd 3, 8, 14 and everything 

east of Pentz Rd and everything north of Hwy 70.

07:46 ECC calls BCSO requesting the above Evacuation Warning.

07:46 E2163, E2164, E2165, E2168, E2169 sent to CAMP Inc report to staging.

07:48 TD2542 entering Unit responding to Camp Inc

07:50 T2107 relaying 10-15 large spots on the backside of Sawmill Peak Jordan Hill Rd area currently.

07:52 AA210 – off Chico showing about 1,000 acres request total of 6 tankers, 1 lead plane, 6 type 1 

helicopters, FC McGregor en-route Oroville Airport to setup Oroville Helibase have all rotary wing 

aircraft report to Oroville Airport.

07:56 Priority traffic for Camp IC – Possible Entrapment 

07:55 T2106 responding

07:56 ECC announced Butte Support for CMD for responding Units – Tac 11,VFIRE 26, CDF Tac 5

07:56 CAMP AA – priority traffic 

07:58 E81 reporting at scene of a spot at 1831 Appleview Way request an additional engine.

08:00 WT42 arrived staging

08:01 Camp AA – The fire is now in Paradise your going to have significant structure threat issues about 

2000 acres along Pentz Rd. Dangerous to Critical ROS.

08:01 Priority traffic to CAMP IC - Possible entrapment at 

08:01 D2102 -CAMP IC going to evacuate orders – expand to zone 2, 7, 13, Morgan ridge zone 

everything west of that will be an evacuation warning.

08:02 ECC calls BCSO Immediate Mandatory Evacuations for all of Paradise 

08:02 BFC1 arrives staging.

08:03 C901 responding to Camp Inc

08:04 CAMP IC – Request 5 additional Tac Nets 
08:07 From Branch I – just report T2107 DIV D trapped on Hoffman Rd with multiple residents taking 

refuge in creek – advise safety zone in center of Camelot. 

08:07 Branch I – request 3 medic units we may have injuries

08:08 CAMP IC request 3 medic units to staging

08:08 ECC asked if ORO-E10 can respond to CAMP Inc

08:10 TD2542 asked to confirm reporting location.

08:10 B2114 reporting fire in backyard at the end of Merrill.

08:11 WT27 arrived staging

08:11 Camp IC – resource order: 

08:11 Info for CAMP IC – 2 Veh TC Concow rd/Yanki Trail 

Building spot fire end of Merrill/Pentz Rd.

08:12 – female resident trapped

08:12 CHI-15 was requested Mutual Aid to the CAMP INC – asked to check with their Duty Chief.

08:13 Branch II requesting CHP Pentz Rd also one way traffic only.

08:13 WT31 available from Appleview Inc – diverted to CAMP Inc.

08:15 CAMP IC – ready copy resource request: 30 STC any immediate need, 10 STFD, 10 STG, 5 Dozers 

Bosses on top of what’s already been ordered. – As STC start to come in have them report to Branch II 

08:15 B2114 in service with Batt 2 & 4

08:16 Camp IC – Zone 3, 2, 7, 8, 14, 13, Morgan Ridge Zone, Lower Pentz Zone all mandatory zone. 

08:16 B2115 – New Emergency – At Scene of a Vegetation on Pentz/Merrill approximately 1 acre in the 

wind numerous structures in the area I’d like a full response start 10 additional engines immediate need 

up to the Pentz Rd area additionally I’d like to make some evacuation orders just for all of Pentz Rd 

Ponderosa School were going to start the evacuation order just north of Merrill.

08:17 Camp IC – additionally get a hold of Public of Paradise – going to have to implement their 

evacuation plan for one way traffic to expedite. 

08:17 B2115 advised evacuation orders already in place for Paradise – for everything along Pentz Rd all 

the way down to the Canyon – Make notifications Ponderosa Elementary School, have them evacuate 10 

Engines immediate need.

08:18 D2103 & P2122 assigned to Paradise

08:19 B2115 assigned as DIV F by IC on VFIRE 26

08:19 ORO-E10 responding
08:21 E2184 dispatched to Staging from F.S. 36

08:21 Camp IC has T2106 assigned as “DIV E” – & ST9231C for “DIV F” 

08:21 E82 – Priority Traffic – Multiple spot fires off of Shay Ln and June Way area multiple structures 

threatened E82 assisting with evacuations.

08:23 Branch I update: We have DIV D has pulled their shelters to protect the residents inside the 

Hoffman Rd area just confirming the power shut off in the Concow area? multiple lines down in the 

area. 

08:23 Camp IC: Affirmative PG&E confirmed power being shut off in the area we will be looking at 

shutting off power on Hwy 70 east of Pentz Rd.

08:23 Branch I request that he can use U44 w/FC Dyer who is in area – T2107 in Hoffman area. Dyer 

assigned as DIV A from Hwy 70 to Hoffman Rd area.

08:24 E2161 unable to raise anyone in the Pulga area, Pulga area is immediately threatened obviously 

E2176 in there in a safe spot but are cut off from getting out confirming we have something from the 

USFS to help us hold HWY 70. If something gets established on the east side it will be a problem for B5. 

08:25 relayed priority traffic to Camp IC – FRH now impacted with fire 

08:25 E81 update – attempting to get line around the fire about 1⁄4 acre this is the spot off of Apple.

08:27 E2169 arrived staging.

08:27 TD2542: I’m to report to staging off Hwy 70 but heard your transmission – B2115 if you can get 

through report to Pentz Rd/Wagstaff Rd fire behind houses, once in area offload when on Wagstaff Rd. 

08:27 TD2346 in the Unit responding from Los Vereles Rd. 

08:28 In Unit ST9252G in Unit respond to Pines staging

08:29 COP901 responding to Camp Inc

08:29 E82 dispatched to medical at Elliot Rd - E82 stated engaged in a firefight request we send 

another engine evacuation in progress. 

08:29 Branch I requesting 5 Engines from IC to DIV A report to Cribbage Lane/Concow Rd CDF TAC 11, 

contingent eta for engines request base your tactics off of that.

08:30 E933 advises B2115 they pulled in right behind him and are going to start attacking this fire. 

08:30 E2185 staffed avl at F.S. 41 

0831 relayed Priority traffic to Camp IC – Enloe flight care requesting permission to start transporting 

patients from FRH – Make sure Camp AA is advised. Camp AA approved advised to launch before the 

smoke column is lays down heavily and contact on 122.925 AA is currently at 7000 agl.

08:31 E2185 sent to Camp Staging 

08:31 E321 Available F.S. 42 staffed with volunteers
08:31 E321 sent to Camp Staging

08:32 ST9254G in Unit responding to Staging.

08:33 E2164 sent to & - assisting with evacuations and civilian 

rescues at those address. 

08:33 E81 releasing E33 to pick up these spots E81 will remain committed. 

08:34 ST9231C at scene.

08:34 TD2342 arrived staging.

08:34 TD2542 askes IC assignment giving location of: Pentz RD/Durham DIV A on Tac 11 heel on left 

flank. 

08:35 Camp IC – any status on tac net fills? 

08:36 E33: released from Apple Fire responding to Dean Rd. 

08:37 Gave Camp IC CDF-TAC 12

08:37 Branch II DIV F – VIFRE 26 – DIV E – Manson CDF-TAC 12 update from BRANCH II Active torching 

behind FRH one concern, the other concern is up at Wagstaff is that school Pentz Rd is pretty much a 

parking lot in most areas going to need a dozer....? 

08:38 Start Volunteer Level Staffing tone out occurred.

08:38 Brach IC is informed TD2342 will be assigned by ________?

08:39 E33 advises Camp IC – on Dean Rd with multiple assigned to you. Camp IC tells E33 your assigned 

to DIV F on VFIRE 26.

08:40 E45 in the area of lower Paradise switching to Tac net. 

08:41 E941 avl Skwyway/Tuscan Ridge.

08:40 From Branch II – priority, we have fire at Hospital on one of the patio’s requesting everything he 

could give. We are going to lose structures at the hospital. STC enroute and 4 singles that have not 

checked in yet enroute and going to cross Pentz here shortly. 

08:41 E941 sent to cover Paradise

08:41 Camp IC –

08:41 E2185 inquiring if they should respond to staging or Paradise area – advised to contact Camp IC on 

Butte Support.

08:41 Branch II advises IC from AA fire in Old Magalia. 

08:42 Camp IC changes staging at Spring Valley School for all resources contact Operations or Command 

until we get a staging area manager. If you could find someone as a staging area manager.
08:43 ECC announces new staging area of Spring Valley School and to contact Camp Operations or 

Command for assignment.

08:43 confirmed with E941 to cover Paradise 

08:44 E2185 advises Camp IC location: SB HWY 99/20th report to Pentz Rd. area report to DIV E on CDF 

TAC 12. 

08:45 Camp AA – information fire progressed approx. 1⁄2 way through Paradise picking up spot fires half

way through Paradise spot fires in the community in Old Magalia with a threat to the lower end of 

Paradise Pines and suggest also consider evacuation warnings in the Butte Creek Canyon area should be 

impacted in the next few hours. Clark Rd is currently a warning do you recommend an order. Camp AA 

suggest everything west of Stieffer Rd an Order. 

08:46 E941 P/A assist into a vehicle 

08:46 COP901 made contact switching. 

08:48 ECC advises Camp IC fill information on Tac nets. 

08:40 50C advises Branch II multiple spot fires Pentz RD/Wagstaff Rd traffic backed up main priority is 

evac and get traffic moving.

08:48 U73 staffed with FC Norman enroute Camp Inc

08:49 Camp IC advises ECC new Evacuation Orders from Stieffer RD to town limits. Evac zones 2,1,4,5, 5, 

12, break zone 11 put evac warning Butte Creek Canyon/Centerville BCSO is advised of the plan this is 

for PPD. 

08:49 BCSO Officer radio’ed in the above Evacuation orders(s) on their frequency to their dispatch.

08:51 ECC calls PPD and advises them of the above Evacuation.

08:49 E2185 reporting a new Incident TC –

08:50 ECC advised of fill info on tac nets: CDF-26, CDF-27, CDF-TAC-28, using VFIRE 26, CDF -TAC 12, 

CDF-11. CHI D-1, CHI-E15, E8332. 

08:50 E2165 at scene 

08:51 E81 sent to Medical at for diabetic.

08:53 Branch II advises IC that Pentz RD is a parking lot we cannot engines up and down we need to get 

PPD in here to or start working on safe refuge zones at the very least get one lane open for fire.

08:54 Branch II advises DIV F of fire in Old Magalia – DIV F just trying to get people out.

08:55 E81: unable to reach the medical re-engaged in the fire fight on Appleway. 

08:56 E941 diverting to Medical on Pinecrest

08:57 DIV F asked Branch II if he has a safe refuge area citizens in vehicle.

08:57 B2120 in service responding to Camp Inc
08:58 B2113 at scene Branch II

08:59 Camp AA resource request – relief AA at 11:00hrs confirm eta for lead? 

09:00 E-941: report a huge spot fire in Paradise on Clark RD/Bille Rd. 

09:02 E274, E71, E2166, dispatched to Branch II Camp Inc Paradise on VFIRE 26.

09:03 E8332 responding to Branch II VFIRE 26. 

09:04 WT74 staffed and sent to staging Spring Valley School.

09:05 ST9252G as well ST9254G staged at Spring Valley School. – advised to contact IC on Butte Support.

09:05 WT45 Emergency Traffic can’t get through I’m at with 20 Civilians completely 

surrounded by Fire taking a safe zone one PT with CP explosions structures on fire taking refuge in 

vehicles. 

09:05 ORO-E10 advises Branch II unable to reach anyone on Pentz Rd do you have and assignment? 

Branch II DIV E.

09:06 CHI-E15 responding to Branch II on VFIRE 26. 

09:08 ST9252G assigned to DIV E lower Pentz Rd same assignment for ST9254G get a hold of T2106 

around Lime Saddle Marina on CDF TAC-12

09:08 TD2346 arrives at Spring School staging

09:09 PNF-DOZ3 responding to Camp Inc

09:10 ECC request estimate acreage size from AA - 2,500 acres dangerous to critical ros.

09:10 CHI-D1 responding to Branch II on VFIRE 26

09:11 SQ45 Staffed with volunteers @ F.S. 45

09:11 DIV F advises Branch II stating they cannot getting resources to the Old Magalia.

09:12 ST9258G (VLV4 VLV6) in Unit inquiring on reporting location? Told to report to Spring Valley 

School – contact Camp IC on Butte Support.

09:12 E637: responding to Concow Lake, advised to contact Camp IC

09:13 FC Norman is DIV H on VFIRE 26

09:14 E8332 lets ECC know fire is established in the Butte Creek Canyon while responding to Butte Creek 

Canyon – probably approximate to Pearson Rd.

09:15 TD1449 in Unit as part of ST9143L copy staging location.

09:15 ST9234G WAR2 WAR4 in Unit copy staging location.

09:16 CAMP AA reporting 5,000 acres 
09:17-09:19 priority traffic for Camp IC – We just received a call of a resident with burns 

 unknown severity we are starting one air ambulance to the outside fire traffic 

area. 

09:19 WT-3 came staffed and sent to Spring Valley Staging.

09:19 Camp IC: make sure that the air resource monitors air to air victor so there are no issues. IC ask’s if 

we need to send a ground resource, no we do need to assign a ground resource. 

09:20 E8332 at Bille/Skyway unable to reach Branch II, do we have a reporting location. Response: 

negative try VFIRE 26.

09:21 U73 w/FC Norman announces on CMD: Units traveling skyway LE vehicles using the left lane as a 

west bound route – recommend use stay in eastbound land to avoid a head on.

09:21 Operations advises Branch I of a report of a burn injury at 

09:21 ECC asks E-941 their location. Wagstaff/Skyway ECC asks E-941 if they can access Pentz Rd/Chloe 

Ct. area reports of an ambulance on fire. E-941 copies additionally Wagstaff about to be threated 

multiple cars on fire about to be impacted.

09:22 Talk from Camp Operations (B2118) and medic 22-13 will be 

making their way in and need to make contact with.

09:22 Camp IC: 

09:23 E81 advises ECC they are bogged down at Bille/Pentz they are anchored in and going to secure the 

escape route. 

09:23 CAMP IC: just information we are having some significant traffic issues in the Paradise area - all 

responding emergency resources access into the Paradise will be Clark and Neal Rd. All other routes are 

being used for evacuation purposes. 

09:25 E-941 asks ECC to confirm location of the ambulance on Pentz? Advised Pentz/Chloe Ct.

09:25 U73 attempts to raise Branch II

09:25 Operations asking Branch I confirming the medic unit can make it to that location or should they 

stage at HWY 70/Concow Rd.

09:26 DIV H raises Branch II

09:26 Someone (no identifier) tells ECC on BTU Local broadcast that they have fire established on Pentz

Rd at the curves down in the drainage. 

09:26 DIV H tells Branch II coming up Skyway/Pearson believes he is asking where can do you want to 

meet?

09:27 ECC announces: Units on local net contact Branch II on VFIRE 26 for fires in the Paradise area.

09:27 E2272 E2262 advises ECC entering the unit HWY 70 from the east. 
09:27 ECC advises Branch II on landline with RP one occupant trapped unable to 

leave. 

09:27 ECC advises E2272 & E2262 to respond to Camp Staging at Spring Valley School Hwy 70/Pentz Rd 

contact Camp IC or Camp Operations of Butte Support.

09:28 Brach II raises DIV F Priority –

09:28 CHI-E15 advises ECC they are responding

09:28 ECC advises E-941 the medics are now inside the garage 

09:29 WT74 arrives staging

09:29 Branch II advise DIV F priority traffic: Victim trapped 

09:29 DIV F asked Branch to repeat address, 

09:29 CHI-15 broken and unreadable trying to tell ECC something

09:29 ECC advises Branch II 

09:30 DIV G attempts to raise Branch II

09:30 DIV G got a report of a Merrill Rd blind non-ambulatory – additionally fire is well established 

maybe more Clark Rd/Wagstaff additionally fire Clark/Bille from the Paradise Alliance Church working its

way south – Branch II advises do what you can do for evacuations and people trapped that’s all we can 

do right now. 

09:30 D2103 advises Branch II the priority for fire resources needs to be to get the people out if they 

could assist in anyway sheltering or protecting. Branch II: that’s what we’re working on right now were 

not fighting fire were just trying to get people moving. D2103: Affirmative, I’m up on Pentz Rd 

sheltering in some ambulances that are disabled, one’s on fire believe that’s the one you’ve been talking 

about. Branch II: what’s your location? 

09:31 DIV H raises Branch IV. Branch II: DIV H do you have traffic, try tone 2 I can’t understand you.

09:31 ST9235G arrived staging.

09:32 DIV H raises Branch II – advises at Wagstaff/Skyway, where do you want to meet?

09:32 B2120 at scene Camp Inc.

09:32 Camp IC raises Branch II with priority traffic. 

09:32 E2161 raises ECC, met up with PNF-D2 they said they have not have any request as of yet, he said 

he’s going to make the request and get some equipment from Quincy. Additionally, advise a you have a 

STG coming down from Hwy 70. 

09:33 Branch II asks IC if he has traffic 

09:33 Branch II answers Camp IC’s priority traffic. Camp IC: apparently, there is a handful of people 

trapped in the basement of FRH. Copy, right now the Hospital is secure actually the safest place to be 
right now. Relay to PPD that we need to start sheltering people in place at the Hospital if we can to try 

evacuate clogging the road. We need to keep people in place the fire has moved past the hospital right 

now so it’s the safest place. Ok, I understand just information also Clark & Neal Rd is still open for twoway traffic all emergency equipment have to enter the area through Clark and Neal. Affirmative, right 

now we got a fake Rd block right there above the hospital and I can’t move anybody and there’s right

???? now on civilian vehicles trying to shelter in place vs moving people around. 

09:35 Branch II asked IC if all power in Paradise is shut off? 

09:35 Camp AA: Do you have an ETA for Lead Plane?

09:36 ECC: Standby

09:36 DIV H raises Brach II 

09:36 Branch II: Go ahead DIV H. DIV H: Skyway jammed just past Wagstaff I’m going to take Wagstaff 

over and try to get to get to Clark and get up that way. Branch II copies. D2103 advises DIV H there’s no 

access over on Pentz, probably though Wagstaff its complete blockage over here I’m just trying to 

refuge these people now. DIV H: copy, what are your thoughts, I’m trying to make it over towards the 

hospital and assume DIV H from Hospital going towards Magalia. D2103: I have no idea what the lower 

end looks like I would assume Pearson might be a better option ummm but I don’t think Wagstaff or 

Billie are going to help. DIV H: I’m on Billie Rd now were going to have a bunch of people get overrun 

here in a minute. Branch II: Tells DIV H to go ahead and enter Old Magalia if you could and clear that 

area everything on Pentz is not going to be doable. DIV H: I’m on Wagstaff right now I got ahh standbye. 

Branch II: once in Magalia contact AA and get some aircraft working.

09:36 ECC asks E941 to come up on Calcord for the medics that are trapped. E941 copies the request

working their way down Billie, advising heavy traffic. 

09:37 E664 advises Oroville staffed, operator plus 2 

09:37 E664 sent to Camp Inc, Camp staging Hwy 70/Pentz Rd. 

09:37 E2185 arrived staging.

09:37 C901 (Scott Mclean) advises Branch II - I’m in the middle of Bille as you can imagine we’re trying to 

get a believed a stalled car about half mile way up I’m going to leave the truck and head up to find out 

were on south side of Billie about 1⁄2 mile. Branch II states to be careful I’m on Pearson. DIV H: I’m on 

Wagstaff in a traffic jam I’ve got structures involved and a traffic jam with a bunch of people about to be 

overrun. Branch II: do what you can shelter in place, right now it’s a mess.

09:37 ECC acknowledges E2185 at scene. 

09:38 PNF-DO3 at scene 

09:38 CHI-E15 with heavy background noise asks how do we copy? unable to reach Branch II. advised to 

try another tone.

09:38 Camp IC: Ok with the traffic issues we are having we have a change in the staging area. All fire

resources and LE are going to utilize Butte College for Butte College Staging that’s where logistical 

support will need to go and a staging area manager. We’re moving the ICP to Dayton/Clark Rd at the 4 
Corners copy? ECC: Copy, all fire resources to staging respond to Butte College Staging and ICP have fills 

on your tac nets. Camp IC: were good on tac nets that’s Clark Rd/Durham Pentz. Copy, Clark Rd/Durham 

Pentz, affirmative, and all fire resource need to respond to Butte College Staging.

09:40 ECC Announces Units responding to the Camp Inc, Staging now at Butte College respond to Butte 

College on Butte Campus Dr. 

09:40 Camp AA: confirm eta for Lead Plane? 6000 acres, dangerous to critical ROS, confirm eta for lead 

plane?

09:40 ST9140C entering the Unit copy the staging location at Butte College. 

09:40 E8332 tells ECC: were holding our position on Wagstaff just about a 1⁄4 from Skyway we have 

several structures threatened/involved it will close off our Wagstaff route if you have another engine we 

could use it also unable to make contact with Branch II. ECC: advised E8332 no other resources we’ll 

advise attempt to make contact with Branch II. 

09:41 Branch II to Camp IC: ............

09:41 ECC advises fill info for lead plane C2 with 09:54 eta.

09:42 E2166: unable to get ahold of Branch II I’m at Clark/Wagstaff I’ll keep trying to raise him.

09:42 Branch II advises Camp IC: information Pentz, Pearson, Billie, Wagstaff, all have issues with

civilians the roads is blocked and their getting direct impingement with fire everything remains a stand 

still right now it’s not looking good for getting people out. 

09:43 Branch II: just wanted to give you the update were just working on evacuations that is our only 

priority right now. There is no fire defense going on. Copy, all LE agencies are working on evacuations

close that the #1 priority right now. I’m going to go down Pentz and catch Butte College go back up 

Clark I can’t get anywhere I’m going from the top. Camp IC: affirm, you copy that Clark and Neal is the

only two-way traffic everything else is setup one way off the ridge. Yeah, affirm I’ll be heading up Clark 

right now I just can’t get around anywhere I need to go up top.

09:43 E8332 contacts ECC, ECC answers them twice with no response.

09:44 ECC attempts to raise E2166

09:44 Branch IV tells Branch II he was going to try to up your location Pentz/Stears I think I’ll go around 

through Butte College and up Clark. Branch II: That’s going to be your only bet right now its all blocked 

up right now. Heading. Branch IV: back down. 

09:44 ECC asks E2166 if they are in the area of E8332

09:44 E2166: what’s their current location? I’m at Wagstaff/Clark right now. In the area of Wagstaff Rd 

attempting to make contact however they’re not able to get out anymore. 

09:44 E2166: I copy, I’ll try to get them on tac you want me to relay a message? ECC: affirmative, if your 

able to reach them.

09:44 Dozer Boss ........? E2168 Butte Support
09:45 CH2100 back in the Unit.

09:48 DIV E Raises Branch II. We got a request for aircraft are the aircraft fixed wing up? I’ve been 

talking with Shem there is no access for the aircraft down where you’re at there’s no way if they drop or 

sharp its all backed up with fire on the civilians turn heavy impact with fire on the down there. 

Affirmative sounds like going it’s to be Pentz/Stearns or Pearson/Stearns in that area. Branch II: I’m 

going down all the way to Butte College and back up Clark Rd just start working on evacuations on that 

lower end and getting people out is the only thing we can do, DIV E: ok copy. Also keep your eye out on

DIV H on or that hospital if you get people who can’t get out just have them stage at the hospital as the 

air starts to clear out up there. DIV E: copy we have some sheltered in place. Branch II: That’s going to 

be our best spot. I down know if you get someone down on Person start getting people turned around.

DIV E: I think we’re looking pretty good over here at the Hospital. I’m going to get out on Pentz right 

now. Pearson is going to be your big hazards for the civilians. DIV E: ok copy. 

09:47 Camp IC: Branch 1, 2, & IV on Camp IC on CMD........

09:47 ECC does another North & South Division Volunteer Staffing tone out, Units advise when staffed

with volunteer equipment.

09:47 DIV H: advises Camp IC I to know this is a priority for everyone but power we have live powerlines

coming down on some people here on Wagstaff we need to just open this intersection on 

Wagstaff/Skyway the fire has bisected the traffic jam I got people trapped all through here. OK, so I just 

met with them PG&E they said they are de-activating all the power in Paradise so those lines should be 

inactive. All the LE agencies are working on a flow out. I’m trying to keep people moving here, I got 

people here I have no place to shelter them, I got fire now that is going to cross Wagstaff. 

09:48 B2114 to Camp IC: I’m coming up Honey Run Rd. just confirming we’ve got an evacuation order on 

Honey Run Rd? If we do there’s no traffic control for blocking the road. It was ordered for Centerville 

and Honey Run Rd. I’m heading towards the back. LE is at it’s premium in Paradise probably not going 

to see anyone for a while. The order went out about 45 min ago. Camp IC: could you provide me an 

update in the Canyon. I’m early in the canyon right now when I get to the back I’ll give you an update.

Camp IC: Branch I & II Camp IC on CMD. Priorities are evacuations and Public Safety 1

st after that it’s 

Hwy 70 and Skyway just want to make sure our objectives are clear. Branch II: yeah there clear that

what we have been doing. FRH is intact, several structures around it are damaged/destroyed. As far as I 

can tell it’s almost to Clark Rd now. 

09:49 E71 arrived Town of Paradise Clark Rd/Ewald Ct

09:50 SQ21 staffed at F.S. 22 w/1 

09:50 Branch I raise Camp IC: 

09:50 E2271 entering unit copy staging at Butte College

09:51 Branch I to Camp IC: Confirming all evacuations have been pushed through from Andy Mt. Rd and 

Ponderosa Way to the west end? Affirmative, everything north of Hwy 70 has been given an evacuation 

order, all the way up to (covered) should encompass what you’re talking about. Copy and additionally, 

2162 has the PT in the back of their engine they’re making their way out now do we have an eta for 
medic unit, we have one patient approx. burns over 45%. Medics are going to be standing by at the 

Yankee Hill. There’s one unit there and there’s one on Concow Rd waiting for you.

Camp IC: I copy

09:51 DIV H: Branch IV Tapia, Division Hotel- I’m at Clark and Wagstaff where do you want to meet? 

Yeah pick a good spot there I’m by Butte College and I’m going to be heading up Clark.

Yeah, I’ll hang out here and wait for you, I think we’re taking everything to the East of the hospital, on 

tone 9. I understood Wagstaff and North Magalia. Copy

Branch 4(?): I’ll head in that direction and come up with a plan.

09:51 FC Delong to E661: E661 you’ll have coverage for Berry Creek area 09:51

09:52 Chi-E2 to Oroville:

(Chi-E2) Oroville, Chico Engine 2 live.

(FC Delong) Chico Engine 2, Oroville

(Chi-E2) Engine 2 are staffed, committed to the incident in Concow if you have any orders.

(FC Delong) Chico Engine 2 respond to Butte College for Staging

(on Butte Support) 09:53:17 (Branch 1) Division Alpha, Branch 1 on Support

(on Butte Support) 09:53:38 (Oroville) Branch 2, Oroville

(on Butte Support) 09:53:46 (Branch 1) Division Alpha, Branch 1 on Butte Support

09:53:52 (ST9220C) Oroville, Strike Team 9220 Charlie, in unit Hwy 70, enroute to the incident

09:54:08 (FC Delong) Strike Team 9220Charlie, 09:54

09:54:21 (PNF-E31) Oroville Plumas Engine 31 (FC Delong) Engine 31, Oroville (PNF-E31) We’re 

responding to the Camp Incident.

09:54:36 (FC Delong) Plumas Engine 31 respond to Camp staging at Butte College

(on Butte Support) 09:54:46 (E2272) Branch 2, Engine 2272, (Branch 2) Branch 2

09:55:00 (FC Delong) Plumas Engine 31, Oroville, Copy?

(on Butte Support) 09:55:01 (E2272) Branch @, Engine 2272 and Engine 2262 just got Jarbo Gap Station 

(?)(?) Division Echo Tac 12, that’s the lower Pentz(?) near Pearson 

09:55:15 (FC Delong) Plumas Engine 31, Oroville

(on Butte Support) 09:55:24 Branch 2, could you repeat

09:55:32 (FC Delong) Plumas Engine 31, Oroville (PNF-E31) 31 (FC Delong) Did you copy, respond to 

Camp staging at Butte College? (PNF-E31) 31 copies, Butte College (FC Delong) 0955, contact Camp IC or 

operations on Butte Support.
(on Butte Support) 09:55:59 (FC Ekdahl) Camp IC, Oroville on Butte Support (Camp IC) Camp IC (FC 

Ekdahl) We got a (?) request for a burn victim, there’s a second burn victim at in 

Bidwell (?) (Camp IC) Can you go directly to Branch 1 with that information? (FC Ekdahl) Affirmative, 

Branch1 , Oroville do you copy? (Branch 1) Yeah, give me the address one more time Oroville (FC Ekdahl) 

It’s (Unreadable – multiple units)

09:56:40 (E274) Oroville, Engine 274 is at staging

09:56:47 (E2166) Oroville, Engine 2166

(on Butte Support) 09:56:49 (Foxtrot) ??? Branch 2 Foxtrot ?? When we can... ???

09:57:00 (FC Delong) e274 staging 0956, other unit on Local Net repeat your traffic (E2166) Oroville, 

E2166 (FC Delong) E2166, Oroville (E2166) Oroville, E2166 unable to get assignment from Branch 2, I’m 

at Nunnely and Clark if you’d like us to respond to emergencies until I get assignment in Paradise.

(on Butte Support) 09:57:10 Branch 2, Foxtrot

09:57:30 (FC Delong) E2166, Oroville, you were broken. I copied you were at Nunnely and Clark, didn’t 

copy the rest of your transmission (E2166) Oroville, E2166 I’ll remain at Nunnely and Clark until I get 

assignment from Branch 2, otherwise will be available for emergencies in the Paradise area. (FC Delong) 

E2166 0957

(on Butte Support) 09:57:35 (Branch 2) Hotel, Branch 2 go ahead with your traffic. (Hotel) Ok, I’ve got 

some decent air here. I need a retardant drop along Wagstaff just up from Skyway, I’ve got multiple 

structures burning, Wagstaff is now shut and I’ve got several hundred vehicles of people trapped by the 

fire. I’ve got one fire engine with me. (Branch 2) Copy, go direct air to ground.

09:59:13 (Charlie 2) Oroville, Charlie 2 local (FC Delong) Charlie 2, Oroville (Charlie 2) Unable to go 

mobile(?) due to winds, we’re going to release back to (??) and we’ll come back out in about an hour 

and a half and check the winds one more time. 

09:59:39 (FC Delong) Charlie 2, 0959

(on Butte Support) 10:00:59 (FC Hartshorn) Camp Air Attack, Oroville (Camp Air Attack) Request for TFR, 

ready to copy coordinates

(on Butte Support) 10:01:08 (FC Hartshorn) Affirmative (Camp Air Attack) 39 45.17 x 121 36.72, I’d like it 

for 9000 feet with a radius of 10 nautical miles.

(on Butte Support) 10:01:31 (FC Hartshorn) Camp IC Oroville, I copied additionally Charlie 2 departed 

McLellen was unable to proceed due to the winds. He’s going to return to McClellan and try again in an 

hour. (Camp Air Attack) Affirmative, I’ve been in contact with Charlie 2 (FC Hartshorn) Affirmative

10:01:40 (E71) Oroville, Engine 71

10:01:49 (FC Delong) Engine 71, Oroville (E71) Oroville, Engine 71, unable to make contact with Branch 

2 on V-fire26. Myself and E274 arrived staging at Clark Rd and Pearson Rd.

(on Butte Support) 10:02:06 (Chi-Div1) IC, Chico Division 1
10:02:21 (FC Delong) Engine 271 Engine 274 Oroville copies 10:02, also multiple other resources in the 

area and unable to contact Branch 2. 10:02 (E71) Engine 71

10:03:37 (E637) Branch 1, Engine 637

10:04:06 (E637) Branch 1, Engine 637

(on Butte Support) 10:04:17 (FC Delong) Branch 1, Oroville

10:04:18 (FC Delong) Engine 941, Oroville (E941) Engine 941 (FC Delong) Medics are currently away from 

their radios, they’ll be unable to contact you on Calcord, 10:04 (E941) E941, Oroville, E941, We’re unable 

to make access to the (??) company due to heavy traffic and fire off of Pentz. We’re actually going to be 

leading some vehicles that are on Pentz. (FC Delong) Oroville copies, 10:04

(on Butte Support) 10:05:45 (FC Ekdahl) Branch 1, Oroville on Butte Support (Warbling...multiple units) 

(E2271) Camp Operations, Engine 2271 on Butte Support. (Branch 1) Oroville, Branch 1 go ahead (FC 

Ekdahl) Trying to get the medics at that address on Broken Glass Circle, also H14 is in the area and we’re 

trying to get them assigned and they’ll be up on air to air, if there’s a need to fly the balance(?) (???unit 

5) ??? unit 5, (?) down to a location, not showing where the head of this thing is at is the shoulder 

or...we do have E2152 transporting a patient out to Highway 70, he’s on Concow road now. So if we 

could get some medics units to Highway 70 and Concow Road (FC Ekdahl) Copy, we’ll let ground IC 

know(?) Highway 70 and Concow Road. (E2271) Camp Operations, Engine 2271 on Butte Support.

10:06:20 (E664) Oroville, Engine 664 arrived Butte College for staging

10:06:27 (FC Delong) Engine 664, 10:06

(on Butte Support) 10:06:56 (Operations) E2271, Operations (E2271) Engine 2271 is at Pentz and 

Durham Pentz with 9220 Charlie, would you like us to continue to staging or head up. (Operations) 9220 

Charlie you will head up, contact Division H on CFD Tac...VFire 26.

(on Butte Support) (E2271) 2271 copies, we’ll be heading up Clark Road (Operations) Copy

10:07:31 (FC Delong) Branch 2, Oroville

(on Butte Support) 10:07:43 (???) (warbling...unreadable) ....he’s forming up to do a run.

(on Butte Support) 10:07:55 (Branch 1) Camp Air Operations, Branch 1

(on Butte Support) 10:08:10 (Camp Air Attack) Branch 1, Camp Air Attack on Command (warbling, 

unreadable) Operations, you have strike team 9220 Charlie headed your way from Butte College right 

now.

(on Butte Support) 10:08:39 (Branch 1) Camp Air Attack, Branch 1, go ahead. (Camp Air Attack) I have 

contact with Copter 14. Confirm you have (???) your plan for evacuation.

(on Butte Support) 10:08:57 (Branch 1) Affirmative, if they could find an LZ, currently we’re working 

three burn patients now with burns to approximately 50% of their bodies. If they could land somewhere 

and tie in with the medics, we’re ground transporting outbound on Concow Road. (Unknown) Ok, copy. 

We’ll get them over to the West side. (Branch 1) Copy and if you could just give me an area where they 

set down, I’ll get the ground units there.
10:09:14 (E2166) Oroville, E2166

(on Butte Support) 10:09:44 (B2114) IC, B2114 on Support

(on Butte Support) 10:10:18 (B2114) IC, B2114 on Support (Camp IC) B2114, Camp IC go ahead (B2114) 

The fire is well established in the HoneyRun Canyon just below Canyon View. Multiple spots in the 

canyon are making the run back up towards Canyon View. I’m heading over to Centerville to see if it’s 

heading in that direction.

(on Butte Support) 10:10:45 (Camp IC?) Well what’s the weather doing over there, are we still getting 

the East wind pushing it down towards Chico? 

(on Butte Support) 10:10:57 (B2114?) IC, 14 ? ...you’re unreadable.

(on Butte Support) 10:11:13 (Branch 1) Operations, Branch 1 (Operations) Branch 1 go ahead (Branch 1) 

Camp Operations, Branch 1 (Operations) Camp Operations, go ahead to Branch 1 (Branch 1) I don’t 

know if you copied the medicals, they were taken out Concow Road to Highway 70 via medic unit, did 

you copy that?

10:11:14 (FC Delong) E2166, Oroville (E2166) Oroville, E2166 (FC Delong) Do you have access to the Bille 

Road area? (E2166) E2166, I’m making my way up there right now to Bille Road, can be there in less than 

5 minutes. (FC Delong) Oroville copies, report of possible disabled people unable to evacuate at 923 Bille

Road. I’d like you to check the area. (E2166) Copies, responding.

(on Butte Support) 10:11:54 (Unknown) Camp Operations, do you copy? (Unreadable) (Unreadable) 

(Camp IC) Branch 1, Camp IC, he copies. How many medic units do you need?

10:12:01 (E2162) Oroville, Engine 2162 (FC Delong) E2166, Oroville (E2162) Oroville, E2162, I’m unable 

to get the IC on the channel. Can you advise, one of my firefighters is going with the ambulance for 

patient care to Enloe, I will be out of service until I retrieve the firefighter.

(on Butte Support) 10:12:22 (Division H) Operations, Division Hotel

(on Butte Support) 10:12:35 (Camp IC) Division Hotel, Camp IC, go ahead. (Div. H) Camp, we’re rescuing 

multiple people on Wagstaff. It’s going to make it to Wagstaff and Skyway here shortly and cut off 

Skyway. (Camp IC) We will be directing traffic up the Skyway over to Butte Meadows, that’s (??). I do 

have a strike team of engines enroute to you, should be there, travel time from Butte College. I’ll get 

you an identifier in a minute. (Div. H) Copy that. Right now, have them go to Bille and Skyway and I’ll get 

ahold of them there. I’ve got one engine up with all the people on Wagstaff. The fire has bisected it and 

is going to cut across and hit Bille here shortly too with all the people on Bille. (Camp IC) Strike team 

9220 Charlie is their identifier, I’ll get them enroute. (Div. H) Copy. (Operations) 9220 Charlie, 

Operations (9220C) 9220 Charlie (Operations) I’d like you to form up at Bille and Skyway and then make 

contact with Division H.

(on Butte Support) 10:13:49 (9220C) Affirmative, Bille, Skyway, Division H. Just missing one unit, engine 

2251 if you can send them out

10:13:58 (U45) Oroville, Utility 45 (FC Delong) Utility 45, Oroville (U45) Utility 45 staffed with Captain 

Zarate, I’ll have coverage for Battalions 2 and 4 (FC Delong) Utility 45, 10:14
10:14:38 (CHP-H14) Oroville, CHP Helicopter 14 

(on Butte Support) 10:14:45 (Div. H) Chico OES, Engine Division Hotel

10:14:47 (FC Delong) CHP helicopter to Oroville, go ahead

(on Butte Support) 10:15:18 (Branch 2) Hotel, Branch 2 (Div H) Hotel (Branch 2) Battalion 2111 and 

myself are coming on Wagstaff towards Chevron we make an (??) (Div H) You’ll hit the fire...are you 

coming from Skyway or from Clark? (Branch 2) Clark, I’m by the old station 3 (Div H) Don’t...the fire is 

too intense to try to make it down Wagstaff to Skyway, I couldn’t make it. You’re going to have to come 

from the other side. I’ve got a shelter in place set up with an engine in there and they’re trying to hold 

that. The fire is basically going to knife across into Bille Road here and then we’re going to have the 

same issue happen here on Bille. (Branch 2) So come from the North on Skyway? (Div H) Come through 

the traffic jam and then you won’t be able to go East on Wagstaff. (Branch 2) I’ll be enroute (??)

10:15:20 (FC Delong) CHP Helicopter 14 from Oroville

10:15:41 (FC Delong) CHP Helicopter 14, Oroville, go ahead

10:16:22 (E274) Oroville, Engine 274

10:16:31 (FC Delong) Engine 274, Oroville (E274) We have a walk up report of a non-ambulatory patient 

unable to evacuate at West Wagstaff, if you can relay to Branch...I’m not sure which Branch has 

that division has that Branch right now, about possible getting that victim evacuated.

(on Butte Support) 10:16:38 (Div. H) ST9220C, DIV Hotel

10:16:57 ECC: E-274 confirming you’re not able to make access? We’re moving that way right now, if 

there are resources closer bye. ECC: Don’t have status of resources in the area the best would be to 

contact to Branch II. 

10:17 E2166: Branch II, E2166...

10:17 Branch II: Unit with traffic for Branch II go ahead. E2166: up the Skyway from Pearson up to Billie 

travel time about 20 min with traffic give you an idea for resources. Branch II: Clark is just as bad so right 

now is a traffic jam. E2166: I got a call on Billie from ECC but I doubt I’m going to make it over there you 

want me to stage at the gym here on Skyway? Branch II: I doubt you’re going to get to Billie right now 

that area it’s just as bad. 

10:18 DIV H: Branch II fire is on Oak/Wagstaff crossing heading towards Billie, I have warned the SO we’ll

need that ST9220C to Billie/Skyway to setup for protecting the civilians in there. Branch II: confirming 

9220C? DIV H: affirm, they have been assigned to me so I need them to that intersection and we’ll have 

to eventually setup for sheltering in place. Branch: It’s already hit Wagstaff and it’s over, do have 

contact with that ST? DIV H: they were assigned to me from Operations I heard them coming up. 

10:19 ECC: Branch II medical in your Branch. Branch II: go ahead. Branch II: Clark Rd/Elliot female in 

labor with PPD unable to get anyone in there. 

10:19 E-964: were staffed with 2 and available HWY 70/Grand, we were enroute South Chico to get 

equipment but can be diverted if net to be.
10:19 Branch II: 

10:20:24 Camp AA: Branch I, AA on CMD. Branch I: go ahead. Camp AA: I’ve got CHP-H14 going into True 

Value Hardware store Hwy 70, just have them rendezvous with them.

10:20 Branch II: B2113, Branch II. 

10:20:58 9220: Operations 9220 go. 

(On Butte Support) 10:21:05 9220: Information, your vehicle evacuations coming down Clark Rd are 

really slowing down and going to be impacted by fire. Suggest open up traffic at the 4 way Pentz/Clark 

for when I came through they were already letting traffic come out both lanes. Camp IC: Copy, LE is 

working on it. When I came through there they were letting traffic go both ways and they’re going to 

stall you out the fire’s already going back along the line of traffic (static...unreadable). Division Alpha, 

Branch 1 go ahead. (Break) What’s your location? (Break) Currently Campbell lot(?) evacuation the 

residents who were back in here (unreadable)

10:21:39 COP101 BTU Local tone 11 over lake Pillsbury to the Camp Inc ETA 11:08 (Break) Oroville, 

P2125 back in the unit, enroute headquarters (placed on incident by ECC)

(On Butte Support) 10:22:03 (Unknown person) Copy, per the IC, he wanted to roll me into the Paradise 

area to meet with him (unreadable). (Branch 1) Yeah, I copy (Break) Yeah, There’s very little we can do in 

the out area at the moment. We’re going to need a lot more resources if we can to (unreadable) (Branch 

1) I copy, (unreadable) evacuation (Break) Repeat that (Branch 1) I copy your traffic (Camp IC) Branch 1, 

Camp IC (Branch 1) Camp IC, Branch 1 go ahead (Camp IC) For burn victims, if you can get ‘em 

transported out to Concow and Hwy 70, I’ve got medics waiting. (Branch 1) Affirmative, I’ve got them 

enroute (Camp IC) Medic units should be there (Branch 1) I copy

(On Butte Support) 10:23:16 (Div A) Division Delta, Division Alpha on Butte Support

10:23:19 (FC Delong) E964, Oroville (E964) Engine 964 (FC Delong) Respond to Butte Stage... correction 

Camp staging at Butte College 10:23 (E964) Engine 964 responding (FC Delong) Strike team coming into 

Butte, repeat your identifier (E1473) Engine 1473

(On Butte Support) 10:23:34 (Div A) Delta Alpha on support (Camp IC) Division Hotel, Camp IC on 

Command

10:23:52 (FC Delong) E1473 respond to Camp staging at Butte College (E1473) Engine 1473

(On Butte Support) 10:23:56 (Unknown person) (unreadable) ....command

(On Butte Support) 10:24:03 (Multiple units...warbling) (Div H) Hotel (Camp IC) (unreadable, multiple 

units) enroute from Butte College, break Branch 2, Camp IC (Branch 2) go ahead (Camp IC) (unreadable) 

on Lower Clark Road can impact the fire with cars still on it. I’m going to send 9240 Charlie who just 

showed up, they’re going to come up Clark Road. Who would you like them assigned to, they will 

protect Clark road for the people coming out. (Branch 2) Yeah, no one assigned down there right now. 

Just trying to get people around is a nightmare. Just have them work the lower section between the 

Town of Paradise and Pearson and down to the airport area, that’s where the fire is right now.

Everything above that is just solid cars. (Camp IC) Understand. We’ll see if we can get them up Clark 
Road. Manson is Division Echo in that area. (Branch 2) He’s kind of stuck over there near the hospital, he 

can’t get over to the other side

10:25:07 (B1618) Oroville, Battalion 1618 

(On Butte Support) 10:25:16, Copy 9240 Charlie and I’ll have them look for Echo when it gets to Tac 12, 

but they’ll go directly to you until they make contact with the Division

10:25:18 (FC Delong) B1618 Oroville (B1618) Inside the Camp Incident assigned to Branch 2 (FC Delong) 

Oroville copies

(On Butte Support) 10:25:40 (Branch 4) Division Hotel, Branch 4 Command

(On Butte Support) 10:25:47 (Foxtrot) Branch 2, Foxtrot

(On Butte Support) 10:25:53 (Div H) Operations, Hotel, I need the identifier of the Chico OES engine

(On Butte Support) 10:26:06 (Operations) 8332 (Div H) Two, Hotel

(On Butte Support) 10:27:00 (Foxtrot, Div H at the same time)

(On Butte Support) 10:27:09 (Branch 4) Hotel, Branch 4 (Div H) Branch 4 go (Branch 4) Where did you 

want to meet up... I’m at Harvey and Wagstaff (Div H) Take ... I don’t think I’m going to make it to you. 

I’m on Oak between Bille and Wagstaff (Branch 4) Copy (Div H) I don’t think you’ll make it down past 

that direction at all.

(On Butte Support) 10:27:53 (Branch 2) Branch 4, Branch 2

(On Butte Support) 10:28:14 (E2166) Branch 2, E2166 (Branch 2) Go ahead (E2166) I’m at the address of 

7419 Skyway, there’s a nursing home here, they’re concerned that there is no way for them to 

evac(covered by another unit talking) Skyway (covered by another unit talking) (AA) Branch 1, AA on 

command. (Branch 1) AA, Branch 1 go ahead (AA) (Covered) CHP-14 is on the ground at the hardware 

store in Concow, do you have an ETA for the patient?

10:28:18 (CHP-H20) Oroville, H20 (FC Delong) H20 Oroville (CHP-H20) How can we get ahold of air 

attack? We’re coming into the area for evac

10:28:49 (FC Delong) Come up on air to air, air tac 5, 151.295 transmit and receive (CHP-H20) Copy air 

tac 5, 151.295

(On Butte Support) 10:29:02 (FC Hartshorn) Camp AA, Oroville, Command (AA) Oroville, Camp AA, 

Command (FC Hartshorn) Camp AA, Oroville, if you have the ability to have buckets poured at Clark and 

Skyway (radio transmission drops)

(On Butte Support) 10:29:46 (Foxtrot) Branch 1, Foxtrot (Branch 1) For Branch 1 go ahead 

(On Butte Support) 10:30:32 (Camp IC) B2114, Camp IC on Command

(On Butte Support) 10:30:42 (B2114) Branch B2114 how do you copy? (Branch?) unreadable...how about 

2 dozers? If we send 2 dozers to you? (B2114) No it’s in that... it’s well established, we’ve been to that 

canyon, it’s real steep. I know it’s not dozer country. (Branch?) Ok, I copy. Our issue is that we’re starting 

to get the resources in but we can’t get them into the area they need to go so. What if we assign a team 
as a contingency up on the ridge to keep it from coming down into Chico? We could put them down at 

that lower part of Paradise there across the (transmission drops)

10:31:18 (SQ63) Oroville, squad 63 staffed and available with two

(On Butte Support) 10:31:33 (Branch?) I copy, I’m going to send you, can you light them out, we have a 

fire established in the lower portion of Paradise (Unknown) We’re over on Centerville Road, did you give 

me an assignment? You were broken and unreadable when I was at my previous location. (?) I haven’t 

yet, I was going to commit you into (covered and unreadable, multiple units) two dozers, that’s all I can 

give you (covered, unreadable) (Unknown resource) I’ll start heading towards over part of Skyway, if you 

want to send a couple of dozers in there, once I get up out of the canyon, I’ll have better radio coverage. 

(Other voice) Ok, Skyway is now two lane traffic out of Paradise, only access up to the ridge is on Neal 

Road, so we have to get up into Neal Road.

10:31:34 (E941?) (unreadable) we made access to the medic units, they’re going to use shelter in place

10:31:58 (FC Delong) E941 Oroville, repeat your traffic

10:32:09 (E941) Oroville, E941, we made access to the medic units sheltering in the (unreadable) they’re 

going to be able to shelter in place for now. E941 will be doing (unreadable) in the area

(On Butte Support) 10:32:39 (multiple at once) IC, B2112 and Branch 2, Camp IC

10:32:47 (SQ63) Oroville, squad 63 staffed and available with two

(On Butte Support) 10:33:00 (Camp IC) Branch 2, Camp IC (Branch 2) Go ahead (Camp IC) I’ve got a strike 

team of Limas. Can you use them up there before I deploy them to lower Paradise? I’m just afraid that 

we’ll get them stuck on the road on the way there (Branch 2) Everything coming to the upper part of 

Paradise is not going to make it. The roads are too blocked for dozers so deploy them on the lower 

section. (Camp IC) Copy break B2114 are you ready to copy numbers for the dozer?

10:33:48 (FC Delong) Other unit with traffic repeat (SQ63) Oroville, squad 63 staffed and available with 

two (FC Delong) SQ63 cover station 33 (SQ63) Squad 63 copies cover station 33 enroute (E2166) 

Oroville, E2166, we’re at scene, pass some information on, at the address of 7419 Skyway, there’s 20 

residents in the nursing home that are all non-ambulatory. They’re concerned at the moment and they 

are unable to reach 911 (FC Delong) Oroville copies. 911 lines are extremely impacted. Are you going to 

remain at scene? (E2166) Affirmative, I’m going to remain at Bille and Skyway for now, unsure which 

direction the fire is coming through at the moment, I was just letting everybody know that there’s 20 

residents in that nursing facility that are non-ambulatory

(On Butte Support) 10:34:45 (AA) Branch 1, AA on command

(On Butte Support) 10:35:09 (AA) ... can hold a spot up there with copter, CHP Copter 14 (broken) 

(broken) (Branch 1?) We’ll have 1 patient transported by ground to Enloe

(On Butte Support) 10:35:32 (AA) Copy, 14 is on the ground at the hardware store and 20 will be there 

shortly (Branch 1) Branch 1 copies
10:35:49 (CHP-H24) Oroville CHP-H24, just for info we’ve launched from Auburn as well and enroute to 

assist, 19 minutes out to the Chico airport, do you have a mission for us to respond to? (FC Delong) 

Contact Camp AA on air to air, air tactics 5, 151.295 transmit and receive

(On Butte Support) 10:36:30 (Div H) Chico engine 8332 division Hotel on Command

(On Butte Support) 10:37:22 (FC Ekdahl) Camp IC, Oroville

10:38:43 (SQ63) SQ63 Oroville, do we have a best access route to access station 33? (FC Delong) SQ63 

negative, I believe all access routes are impacted heavily by traffic

(On Butte Support) 10:38:56 (U2141) Branch 1 U2141

(On Butte Support) 10:39:02 (Branch 1) U2141 Branch 1 go ahead (U2141) When you have time, I have 

an update for you (Branch 1) Go ahead with that update (U2141) The fire has not reached Nelson Bar 

Road. It’s winding into it. We probably have an hour or two before it gets to Nelson Bar, I’m going to 

head down to the end of it and tell you how far past Nelson Bar. (Branch 1) Copy and I did make contact 

with SO and they are working in that area to do evacuations. (U2141) and the crews are advising people 

as well. (Branch 1) I copy and do you see an opportunity in there to (transmission drops)

10:39:25 (ST9241C) Oroville, Strike Team 9241Charlie entering the unit, do you have a reporting location 

and frequency? (FC Delong) ST9241C respond to Butte College for Camp staging, Command net, Butte 

Support, Tone 2 or 4, TAC net are TAC 11, VF26, and CDF TAC 5

(On Butte Support) 10:39:56 (Branch 1) U2141 you were walked on. Do you see an opportunity to hold 

that flank? (U2141) Not with the resources we have (Branch 1) I copy (P2127) Camp IC, P2127

10:40:26 (CHP-H24) Oroville, H24, just for info, it sounds like AA is busy on the tac channel. Just 

confirming, do you still have a Butte County EMS unit 3214 that needs evac that we can respond to?

10:40:53 (FC Delong) Multiple units and people trapped. Unaware of that particular incident. We do 

have medics trapped, but an Engineer is at scene, they are sheltering in place. I don’t believe you’ll be 

able to make access due to the column. (CHP-H24) H24 copies. Do you have any other evacs that you 

know of that you can send us to until we can get back up with AA, they are extremely busy it sounds like.

(On Butte Support) 10:41:04 (U44) Branch 2, U44 – I’m just getting over into the Paradise area, the 

lower Paradise on Clark Road, on loan from Branch 1 if you have an assignment (Branch 2) Work the 

area off of Clark road from Pearson down if you have a strike team over there and just make sure that 

road stays open for evacuations (U44) copy (Branch 2) and it crossed right about airport road, that’s 

where the fire was when I went through there. What is your identifier again? (U44) Utility 44, Captain 

Dyer

10:41:39 (FC Delong) CHP H14 Oroville, you can attempt to contact Camp IC on Butte Support

(On Butte Support) (FC Ekdahl) Branch 2 Oroville (Branch 2) Branch 2 (FC Ekdahl) We’re getting multiple 

reports of people trapped in the Edgewood area (covered) (Branch 2) Affirmative, I’ve got the whole 

area in the (??) (D2103) Branch 2 D2103 can you place a call

(On Butte Support) 10:43:09 (D2103) Branch 2 D2103, information most of Pentz has opened up now. I 

have Transport 2544 and Dozer Tender 2140, They are not of use in here. I don’t know what your needs 
are over on the West side of the canyon (Branch 2) I think the canyon... the lower end of Pearson and 

airport down off Clark are going to be the best bet, try to get establishment there (covered) best places 

are (covered)

(On Butte Support) 10:44:46 (P2127) Camp IC P2127, for those resources coming up Clark Road, they 

have all traffic coming down both lanes, just to be advised (Camp IC) Understood, they’re going to get it 

back to single lanes so we can get emergency apparatus in

(On Butte Support) 10:45:18 (Foxtrot) Branch 2 Foxtrot on Command, Hey Tony, just so you know 

there’s fire on the other side of Clark Road also. Station 35 is being impacted, as-is the Pine Tree Mobile 

Home Park. We also have a serious traffic backup with a lot of civilians in gridlock to Pentz and Skyway. 

(Branch 2) I copy, Division Foxtrot, you’re now working for Branch 4, B2111 on CDF TAC 26

(On Butte Support) 10:46:08 (U44) Branch 2, U44, Do I have a division (??) around a TAC frequency

(On Butte Support) (FC Ekdahl) Branch 2 Oroville on Butte Support, information I just got a call of 5 

disabled people at Road unable to evacuate

(On Butte Support) 10:47:50 (Branch 1) Camp IC, Branch 1, are you available for a call? (Camp IC) Affirm, 

go ahead (Branch 1)

(On Butte Support) 10:48:20 (Branch 2) Branch 2 copies, we’ll try to make it in that direction, the road is 

blocked up in both directions, it’s hard to get in there. (FC Ekdahl) Affirmative, the RP was advised. No 

imminent threat of fire but they are unable to evacuate (Branch 2) If you have contact with them, see if 

they can walk out and get one of the vehicles that are parked out on the road and see if they can load 

them in there and go (FC Ekdahl) Affirmative, already informed them that was their best bet

10:48:52 (E2166) Oroville E2166, we’ll respond to the call at Road (FC Delong) E2166, Oroville 

copies. 10:49:16 (E2166) E2166 copies, additionally the neighbors at are going to assist in 

evacuations.

(On Butte Support) 10:49:14 (AA) Branch 1, AA on command 10:49:56 (AA) Branch 1, AA, information, 

we transported one patient from the Hardware store. Confirm you have additional patients enroute? 

(Branch 1) That should be it. I think all other patients were transported by ground.

(On Butte Support) 10:51:16 (Hotel) Branch 2, Hotel (Branch 2) Standby Hotel

(On Butte Support)10:52:16 (FC Ekdahl) Camp AA, Oroville 10:52:23 (AA) Oroville, Camp AA (FC Ekdahl) 

New incident, a vehicle fire on Skyway just West of lookout point (AA) I copy, we’re not going to be able 

to work any aircraft over there just due to the smoke column now. Probably make contact with B2114, 

he was down in that area and he would be able to direct resources in (FC Ekdahl) Copy

(On Butte Support)10:53:28 (AA) Camp IC, AA on command

(On Butte Support) 10:54:48 (U44) Branch 2, U44, if you got back to me on that info, I didn’t copy it 

(Branch 2) U44 standby one

(On Butte Support) 10:55:20 (Hotel) Branch 4, Hotel

(On Butte Support) 10:55:30 (Branch 2) U44, Branch 2, we don’t have an identifier, you’ll be working on 

your identifier – U44, TAC26 and you’re going to have Plumas Dozer 3 and 9143Lima, they’re on the 
Neal Road side so you’ve got to get across that side, you’re division is based at Clark road trying to get 

established an anchor point (U44) Copy PNF3, 43Lima and anchor off Clark road and proceed North from 

there (Branch 2) Yeah, try to get an anchor point somewhere, direction your choice when you get 

established and then you’re going to have to find (?) on Neal road somewhere (FC Ekdahl) Branch 2 

Oroville, report of vehicle with threat the vegetation on Skyway just west of Lookout Point inbound if 

you have any available resources (Branch 2) We don’t have anything in that direction because of the 

traffic (FC Ekdahl) Oroville copies

10:56:31 (COP101) Oroville, Copter 101 in quarters Oroville Butte Local

(On Butte Support) 10:56:48 (TD2142) B2117, 2142, myself and 2140 are coming up Pentz, just at Lime 

Saddle (B2117), Ok, tie in with U44

10:57:21 (FC Delong) Chi-E5 Vegetation on Skyway near the Chico Rod and Gun Club 10:58:04 (FC 

Delong) CHI-E5, Vehicle on Skyway near the Chico Rod and Gun club

10:58:23 (CHI-E4) Oroville, CHI-E4 in quarters also responding. (FC Delong) CHI-E4, Oroville copies, 

reported as a vehicle possibly into the vegetation but separate from the fire

(On Butte Support) 10:57:19 (B1618) Branch 2, B1618 Butte Support 10:57:27 (Branch 2) Unit with 

traffic for Branch 2 go ahead (B1618) B1618 letting you know I’m in your branch in the Lower Paradise 

area (Branch 2) Copy your assignment (B1618) Per our conversation on the phone I’d like to 

(Transmission drops) (Branch 2) copy that, thanks. (Hotel) Branch 2, Hotel (Branch 2) Go ahead |(Hotel) 

Set the TRA up at Skyway and Bille, I’ve got CHI-E15, they’ll hold that for us, when the fire impacts this 

area if we have all these people here, we’ll have to shelter in place (Branch 2) Yeah, you might have to 

set up a couple of them, there’s a lot of vehicles so that’s a good idea and maybe pick a couple other 

spots. I know up the road aways is that mini-storage, that’s a good spot for it and then down when you 

get closer to town, there’s a bigger one (Hotel) Copy, I can’t go up the Skyway towards Wagstaff, the fire 

where I last saw you is heavily impacting Oak and slicing across towards Bille, It’ll be a little while before 

it gets here. (Branch 2) Affirmative

10:59:01 (DT1447) Oroville Dozer Tender 1447, Dozer 1447 and Tender 1447 arrived Camp Staging Butte 

College 

(On Butte Support) 10:59:22 (B2114) IC, B2114

10:59:26 (E2166) Oroville, E2166, the residents of have been evacuated. E2166 is available in 

the area

(On Butte Support) 11:01:39, 11:02:01, 11:02:29 (FC Ekdahl) Branch 1, Oroville, we have a report of a 

vehicle over by fire Grant Ridge Rd and Jordan Hill Rd, unsure if it’s occupied or not

(On Butte Support) 11:04:07 (9220C) Branch 1, 9220C on Command (Branch 1) 9220C (unreadable) 

11:04:33 (Branch 1) Strike Team 9220C, Branch 1 go ahead

11:04:15 (WT41) Oroville WT41 available, staffed with 2, in quarters station 42 11:04:30 (FC Delong) 

WT41 respond to Camp Staging at Butte College

11:05:09 (ST9142G) Oroville, Strike Team 9142Gold entering the unit Hwy 70 11:05:32 (FC Delong) 

9142G respond to Butte College for Camp staging
(On Butte Support) 11:05:29 (Branch 2) Foxtrot, Branch 2 on Command 11:05:40 (Foxtrot) Branch 2 

Foxtrot on Command go ahead (Branch 2) Bill, I just drove by that school, you have a fire in one of the

buildings, you might be able to stop it (Foxtrot) Which school you talking about? (Branch 2) The one 

right near Wagstaff (Foxtrot) Yeah, affirm, several of the buildings are on fire there. Where can I meet 

up with you face to face? I’ve got some serious issues here. (Foxtrot) I’ll meet you at Wagstaff and Pentz 

(Branch 2) So just so you know, just across from Wagstaff and Pentz, that little loop that goes into Old 

Magalia, we’ve got fire up there, several structures on fire (Foxtrot) Where are you talking about

11:06:28 (Branch 2) At Skyway just North of Wagstaff, Skyway and Old Skyway (Foxtrot) Ok, I’ll head in 

that direction (Branch 2) No, at the intersection here at Wagstaff, you’ve got a (unreadable) offloaded in 

trailers, completely blocking the road and it’s got gridlocked traffic. I’ll wait for you up here.

11:05:53 (ST81) Oroville Station 81, Squad 81 staffed with 2, unable to do CADWEB (FC Delong) Squad 

81, Oroville copies, your staffing? Fire Captain Hollstrom and Firefighter Chimolino(SP)

(On Butte Support) 11:07:20 (Branch 4) Foxtrot, Branch 4, confirming Wagstaff and Pentz?

11:07:33 (FC Delong) CHI-E4, Oroville, were you able to make access up the Skyway or was it too much 

traffic? (CHI-E4) We made access up the Skyway, we’re just passing the entrance to Tuscan Ridge right 

now, we’re UTL so far (FC Delong) Oroville copies, report came in as an engine compartment fire near 

the area of the Rod and Gun Club (CHI-E4) Copy, Engine 4 and Engine 5 will be at scene here in about 1 

or 2 minutes 

(On Butte Support) 11:07:33 (AA210) Oroville, AA210 is returning to Chico 5 minute ETE, 230 has the fire 

and they’ll be relief air attack 

(On Butte Support) 11:08:03 (Branch 1) Oroville Branch 1, confirming that the vehicle (broken, 

unreadable) (FC Hartshorn) Branch 1, Oroville, you are unreadable, you were walked on

11:08:25 (Broken and unreadable in spots ..no identifier) we’re going to try leading the ambulance down 

to Chico (broken) they have the wrong (broken) 11:08:41 (FC Delong) Unit on local net, you’re 

broken/unreadable (E941) Oroville, E941, the fire stops right here, we’re going to try leading the 

ambulance down to Lower Paradise 11:08:57 (FC Delong) E941, Oroville copies you’re going to try to 

lead the ambulance down to Lower Paradise

(On Butte Support) 11:08:40 (Hotel) Branch 4, Hotel

(Butte Local) 11:08:41 Oroville engine 941 the fire (???) were going to try to lead the ambulance to 

lower paradise.

(Butte Local) 11:08:57 Engine 941 Oroville copies your trying to lead the ambulance to lower paradise.

(On Butte Support) 11:08:58 (multiple units) (U2141) Branch 1, U2141, we’ve got the fire established in 

the canyon to the point where the river turns into lake, you’ve got about a mile and a half before it 

reached the houses at the end of Nelson Bar, I’d get some dozers up on the ridge, we might be able to 

keep ‘em from getting down onto Nelson Bar, keep it out of the houses. 11:09:34 (Branch 1) I copy 

break, Camp Operations, Branch 1 (Camp IC) Division Hotel, Camp IC on command, Bille and Skyway, 

apparently, you’re probably already aware of it, civilians will have to shelter in place, not sure if you can 

provide anything down there, but I do have some resources, I’ve got two Golf and three single 

increment engines, do you want them? (Hotel) I’m at Bille and Skyway, the fire’s not here yet but will be 
shortly, setting up a TRA at the Walgreens, I’ve got engine protection, I’ve got Engine 2166, Chico 8332 

and Chico E15, I’m getting 9220Charlie in here, I’m setting multiple TRA’s up preparing for the fire to 

impact us (Broken, unreadable, warbling) the hand crews right now, they won’t do me any good. 

(Foxtrot) Branch 1, Foxtrot Command, I’m going to give you the three engines, ok? Ready for the 

identifiers? (Branch 1) Affirm, go ahead

11:09:24 (CHI-E4) Oroville, Chico Engine 4, we’re at scene, we’ve got a vehicle well involved in the center 

divide, no threat to vegetation at this time, Engine 4 is going to be at fire attack

(Butte Support) 11:09:34 Camp operations, Branch I. Division Hotel, Camp IC on command. Hotel. (Camp 

IC): Billy and skyway, apparently your probably aware of it, civilians having to shelter in place. Not sure if 

you can provide anything down there. But I do have some resources, I’ve got two golf and 3 single 

increment engines, do you want them? (Division Hotel): I’m at Billy and skyway, the fire is not here yet, 

I’m setting up a TRA at the Walgreen, Ive got engine protection. I’ve got E2166, Chico E8332, Chico E15, 

I’m getting 9220C, I’m setting up multiple TRA’s preparing for the fire to impact us. The hand crews right 

now don’t do me any good. (Camp IC): I’m going to give you the three engines ok, I’m going to give you 

the identifiers. (Division Hotel): Affirm Go ahead. 

(Butte Local) 11:09:51 Chico E1 medical, Dairy Road. Chico E1 butte medics medical ill male at 

 Dairy Road.

(Butte local) 11:10:39 Oroville strike team 9221G entering the unit highway 32.

(Butte Local) 11:10:50 Strike Team 9221G Report to Camp staging at Butte College. 9221G

(Butte Support) 11:11:03 (Division Hotel) Go ahead with the Identifiers.

(Butte Local) 11:11:13 Oroville Chico E4.

(Butte Local) 11:11:21 Chico E4 Oroville. (E4): Fire has been contained, no extension to vegetation, E4 

and E5 will be committed 15 to 20. 

(Butte Support) 11:11:38 Camp IC or Camp Operations, Camp air attack on command. Go ahead for 

Camp IC on command. Hey John its Jake, just took over for 210, got the copters working on the paradise 

side, civilian life threat. Understand the exit and routing is a priority, starting to get more rotor wing on 

the fire, upwards of seven now, that will be coming back on gas. 4-5 fresh on gas. As for the fixed wing, 

wind conditions, I don’t see any change currently right now. Copy I understand, and currently least our 

(??? And ???) is skyway and down into butte creek, were going to need to reestablish a control point 

there and highway 70. If you could help with some intelligence there. We’ve got warnings and 

evacuations out all over. We need Cal trans if you think it’s going to impact southern portion of Chico 

city and the butte college area, just need a head up on that. I copy, and I’m getting reports from a CHP 

copter that there are additional requests for hoist operations for rescue over the fire. 

(Butte Local) 11:11:58 Chico E1 Oroville. E1. Confirm response to Dairy Road. E1 responding. Chico E1 

Butte medics 11:12. 

(Butte Local) 11:12:34 Oroville copter 101 on butte local. 

(Butte Local) 11:12:42 Copter 101 Oroville. Confirm the command has switched over to Butte Support. 

Affirmative command Butte Support. Copter 101
(Butte Local) 11:13:57 Oroville Engine 376 Available at scene.

(Butte Support) 11:13:57 Branch II, utility 44. Clark road is heavily impacted, and airport road area is no 

longer a safe evacuation area. Start to try looking for a safe refuge area, for the cars there. Have dozers

start punching out some areas where you parked those cars. If you have to run a dozer down the side of 

the road to make it clear then do it. Copy I have not been able to find the dozers yet. 2140 and 2142 are 

coming up from the bottom. 

(Butte Support) 11:14:45 Branch II, Foxtrot on command. Foxtrot Branch II, you’re working for Branch 

IIII. Branch IIII Foxtrot on command, go for Branch IIII. We’ve got hundreds of people in their vehicles at 

pence and sky way and clark and skyway. I know john’s working on a temp refuge area down there, but 

you can also get down clark and Wagstaff. We got a lot of fire and its burning toward pence and skyway. 

I copy, there are some areas to go to in the Kmart parking lot on Clark. Affirmative, all of the traffic is 

pointed up hill and don’t want to (???). We need to set up a TRA possibly at Clark and Wagstaff. We did 

have fire on both sides of the road just west of the station there at the pine grove or pine (??) mobile 

home park. Affirmative, can you switch over to CDF Tac 26. 

(Butte Support) 11:17:18 Branch I, Utility 2141. I don’t know if you’re going to be able to do it but if you 

can get me 2 Lima’s we can put line on the ridge from the end of nelson bar back to Concow to try and 

hold that from coming down and impacting. 

(Butte Support) 11:18:12 Branch I Oroville. Oroville Branch I go ahead. Unit for a party trapped at 

Grant Ridge Road. 

(Butte Local) 11:19:53 Oroville Engine 941, we were able to lead the patients to feather river hospital, 

they are going to shelter here at Feather River Hospital. Engine 941 is available at feather river.

(Butte Support) 11:21:54 Branch II, Hotel. I’ve got 9120C, E2166 and Chico E15, E8233 were about to get 

overrun on Bille and skyway, We have about 1000 vehicles in here and I’m setting multiple TRAs up. 

Once the fire hits I’m going to pull people out of their vehicles and put them in the buildings, leave 

engines to protect them. I’m on CDF tac 26, I’ve moved all my resources on that frequency. (9220C): 

Division hotel copies frequency change. (Division Hotel) Where are you right now? (9220C): currently 

evacuating Oak drive, between Wagstaff and Bille. (Division Hotel): Stay there and don’t progress down 

Bille. The fire is going to hit oak and Bille, we need to stop that flow of traffic and you’re going to need 

to defend that area and protect those people. 

(Butte Local) 11:31:17 Squad 81 assist a residence, unable to evacuate, Angel Drive. 

(Butte Support) 11:32:29 Camp IC, Branch II. At sky way and Bille, its blocked in every direction. We’re

pulling people from cars and putting them into the Wal Mart safety area. There is no other chance of 

getting them out down the road, the fire is going to impact us in 10-15. 

(Butte Local) 11:32:53 Oroville Chico E4, just to let you know law enforcement just approached us and 

said you got people stuck in traffic on skyway with fire impinging on their position about a mile above 

the road and gun club. 

(Butte Support) 11:33:28 Branch II, Camp IC. Branch II. With this traffic, I think the best approach now is 

to find locations to Shelter in place and start shuttling people in there until these roads open a little bit 

so we don’t get people stuck on roads when the fire impacts. If we can find big parking lots and get 
people in places where we can shelter them, until the roads open. (Branch II): That is what we are trying 

to do, but we are limited in some of the areas where were at getting people in there, were working on 

it, it is slow going getting people out of their cars. 

(Butte Support) 11:34:14 Branch II, Oroville. Receiving reports of two people trapped, large field on 

Edgewood lane through Pearson road. Do you have any available unit to respond? (Branch II): I can’t get 

anyone down there through the traffic. Oroville Copies. 

(Butte Local) 11:35:09 E941, Oroville. Are you able to access Edgewood lane at the end of Pearson? 

(E941): Yeah we will make it that way. (Oroville): Reported numerous people taking refuge in a field at 

the very end of Edgewood lane off Pearson. 

(Butte Support) 11:38:52 Oroville, Branch I priority traffic. I have an engine transporting two burn 

patients out to the hardware store Hwy 70. Request one life flight helicopter and one ground transport. 

(Oroville): confirm two civilians or firefighter personnel. (Branch I): two civilians. 

(Butte Support) 11:42:04 Branch I, Camp IC. We do have a couple CHP helicopters in oroville that are 

available for hoist rescue and transport. If you need something to go by air, facilitate that through air 

attack and we’ll utilize the CHP aircraft. 

(Butte Local) 11:45:15 Oroville, E2561. Strike team 9320C we have a firefighter with smoke inhalation 

being transported code 3 to Oroville Hospital. 

(Butte Support) 11:49:19 Branch II, Oroville. Have a report of three burn victims at the very end of South 

Libby on a Quad trail about a mile out on a point. 

(Butte Support) 11:49:45 (Branch II): confirm on south Libby? (Oroville): Affirmative, RP is stating it’s the 

three of them, burn injuries on quads at the end of South Libby turns into a bike path or horse trail 

about a mile out on a point. 

(Butte Local): 11:51:03 Oroville, Squad 81 do you have the numerics for the rescue on Edgewood lane? 

(Oroville): Squad 81, reported to be a field at the very end of Edgewood lane, off of Pearson. No address, 

apparently they fled to that location on quads. (Squad 81): Squad 81 enroute, responding. 

(Butte Local): 11:59:46 Oroville Engine 2362, I need you to give me some directions to the trapped 

victims off of south Libby, were at south Libby and parkway drive. 

(Butte Support) 12:00:20 Branch II, Hotel. Wagstaff and Skyway is being impacted by fire. I’ve got 

multiple vehicles I’m going try to get into vehicles. We have multiple gas stations so I don’t have a good 

TRA. I have people on foot right now, they are abandoning their vehicles and I am trying to scoop them 

all up. This will be a high priority here. (Branch II): Copy that, try to do the best you can. 

(Butte Support) 12:05:24 Branch II, Oroville. The Medics for the burn injuries on South Libby were only 

able to make it to Pearson and Clark. Can you transport them to that location or see that they are 

transported to that location? (Branch II): Yeah I’ll work on it, it’s dicey in here right now, I made it all the 

way through station 81 on Pearson. If they stay in the middle of the road they should be ok.

(Butte Support) 12:08:05 Branch II, Oroville. Multiple vehicles being overrun by fire on Neal road and 

Railroad area. Unable to leave. 
(Butte Support) 12:08:45 Branch II, Oroville the caller stated that the end of south Libby turns into a 

trail, like a horse trail. They road quads through the fire and were out on a trailing on a point. (Branch II): 

I think we’re in a location, I got one engine with me, it’s going to be kind of dicey getting in there but 

we’ll work on it. 

(Butte Support)12:10:35 Branch II, Utility 44. I have a report of possible victims trapt at Lancer road

cross of Clark road, will be across from Lava creek golf course. (Branch II) Can you make access? (U44): 

I’m going to see if I can get into there, I don’t have any resources to assist right now. 

(Butte Local) 12:12:56 Oroville Squad 63, is at gridlock and gate, we got multiple vehicles jammed up 

with fire encroaching, do we have an engine nearby? (Oroville): Negative contact branch II for new 

emergencies on the incident. (Oroville): E941 Oroville, only information was people possibly trapped at 

the end of Libby road, on quads. (E941): confirming this is the (???) Edgewood call? (Oroville): Two 

separate calls, two separate locations, Same circumstances, unknown if they are related. 

(Butte Support) 12:14:58 (Captain Norman): I am starting to shove cars off the road with my vehicle. I 

need the SO to tell everyone to stay in their car and keep heading down skyway and then we’re going to 

direct some of them off at Bille and get them over at Bille and Clark and use the black as our TRA. Right 

now, I got multiple TRAs set up with about 150 civilians on foot with engines protecting. Skyway and 

Wagstaff is where we are trapped. Get a message to rob and tell people not to get out of their cars 

anymore.

(Butte Support) 12:17:32 Division Hotel, ST9121C. 9121C and 9234G are on (?????) Road with 20 homes 

that are about to be threatened now. (Division Hotel): Structure defense is not the priority right now; 

Life safety is the priority. I’ve got multiple people trapped along here at the Skyway. I need you to 

proceed up the Skyway, past Wagstaff and help me ram these cars with one of your engines that are 

blocking the road. Everything east of Wagstaff on the Skyway and make sure everyone is getting out. 

(Butte Support) 12:18:45 Division hotel, Camp IC. I’m going to try to get you a piece of heavy equipment, 

a dozer or public works loader and they’ll clear the road for you, I just got to get it up to you. 

(Butte Support) 12:21:35 Oroville, Squad 81. We’ve got a civilian on a quad, he’s heading back to south 

Libby road to pick up two burn victims that are at the end of the road and he’s going to bring them out 

towards whatever engine we have coming from Libby road. We’re working our way out of Edgewood 

right now.

(Butte Support) 12:23:00 Squad 81 states to branch II that they made contact with a civilian on a quad 

and that both burn victims are severely burned and that the civilian on the quad is going to retrieve the 

victims from the trail at the end of south Libby road, only accessible by quad. 

(Butte Support) 12:24:18 Camp IC, Hotel. I’ve got a bus and loading all the people that I have in this TRA 

and am going to try to get them down to Bille Road to the TRA there. Right now, the fire is on Skyway at

Wagstaff and also at Bille. 

12:25:10 CHI-E4 available 

12:25:25 (E941) Branch 2, E941 would you still like us to make access down Libee?
12:26:05 (E941) Oroville, E941, I’m having trouble copying rescue’s traffic, would they still like us to 

make access down Libbee? (FC Delong) Affirmative, make your access as far as you can down South 

Libbe, they may need assistance transporting burn victims. (Branch 2) E941, Branch 2 12:26:36 E941, 

Branch 2, stay on the pavement, once you get onto the dirt portion, it gets pretty narrow and blocked 

with downed trees, I got one engineer now will transport back out to you if we need to (E941) Ok, I 

copy, would you like us to stay on Clark? (Branch 2) at the very south end of Libbee where it makes a 

turn, just stay right there at the intersection

(Butte Support) 12:26:37 (Hotel) Branch 2, Hotel 12:27:14 (Hotel) IC, Hotel update, we’re starting to 

mitigate our issue here using these busses, we still have one active TRA with 60-70 people in it at 

Walgreens at Bille and Skyway, I’m going to try to evacuate that. I’m going to try and get East of the fire

to find out how many people are trapped on the Magalia side on the Skyway (IC) IC copies

12:27:26 (SQ45) Oroville, Squad 45 staffed

(Butte Support) 12:28:21 (IC) Branch 4, go ahead to IC (Branch 4) Just an update, on the North side of 

the fire, the old Magalia side is being impacted there, the Paradise Pines area is threatened but the fire’s 

not burning there yet (IC) Copy, thank you (Branch 4) Priority for Branch 4 would be engines 12:25:55 

(IC) Copy engines are the priority

12:25:54 (Branch 2) Squad 81, Branch 2 on Butte Local 12:29:06 When you had contact with the person 

on the quad, what direction were they come in? 12:29:14 (SQ81) He went back up Edgewood, I believe 

he was getting off the trail to go back to where you guys were, he wasn’t using the main road. (Branch 2) 

We’re at the very end of South Libby where it turns to dirt, confirming he’s coming that direction? 

(SQ81) Unknown, just stating he was going to go pick up the patient and start heading back up Libby 

road to the end and we were going to have resources meet him is what we told him (Branch 2) Ok, can 

you make it back this direction? 12:29:52 (SQ81) Branch 2 unable to copy, can you repeat that? (Branch 

2) Can you make your way all the way to the end of South Libby? (SQ81) Enroute, SQ81 12:30:11 (Branch 

2) SQ81, also we’re on TAC12

(Butte Support) 12:29:23 (U44) Branch 2, U44

(Butte Support) 12:29:40 (34G) Division Foxtrot, 34Golf on Butte Support

(Butte Support) 12:30:12 (Hotel) Branch 4, Hotel 12:30:21 Are you East on Skyway of Wagstaff? (Branch 

4) Affirmative, I’m at the Magalia Dam right now (Hotel) I’ve got sporadic traffic coming through, we’re 

scooping up all these people and getting them out of the TRA’s, are you ok up there, do I need to check 

everything on the Skyway between Wagstaff and where you are? (Branch 4) That portion I have not 

checked at all, above Skyway and Pentz is clear (Hotel) I’m going to run up through here, the fire has 

heavily impacted Skyway and we’re trying to hold it with engines and get all these people out (Branch 4) 

Ok, I think I’ll turn around and head back down your way (FC Delong) Branch 4, Oroville 12:31:26

confirming, are you in the area of Skyway and Clark road? (Branch 4) I’m at Magalia reservoir (FC 

Delong) Copy, report of a possible person out of fuel in a purple PT Cruiser at Skyway and Clark Rd, if you 

can check that area (Branch 4) Affirmative, Skyway and Clark

12:30:19 (SCK5) Oroville, Salt Creek Crew 5 arrived at staging & Oroville, Salt Creek Crew 4 arrived at 

staging
(Butte Support) 12:32:51 (Branch 2) Branch 4, Branch 2, Joe can you watch the top end of my branch for 

me? I’m kind of committed down in this rescue right now (Branch 2) Yeah, affirmative (U44) Branch 4, 

U44

12:33:28 (E941) Branch 2, E941, we’ve been through that area of Libby (??) 12:33:42, we made it to 

where the lane changes (??) 12:34:01 (Branch 2) E941 Branch 2, do you have traffic for me? (E941) 

Affirmative, we’re on Libby and we’re being blocked by some powerlines, we’re trying to make access to 

the point where it turns (Branch 2) Yeah, all the powerlines are de-energized up here, not grounded, but 

de-energized, you should be able to make your way down and come over to CDF TAC12, that’s what 

we’re running on (E941) 941 copies

(Butte Support) 12:33:50 (U44) Branch 4, U44 on Command

12:34:42 (FC Delong) Squad 21, Oroville 12:34:49 Squad 21, we’d like to have you attempt to make 

access to station 33 for coverage by going up Highway 32 through Butte Meadows and then across the A 

line through Sterling City 12:35:21 (SQ21) Squad 21 copies

(Butte Support) 12:35:28 (Camp AA) (??) base, Camp AA on command (E2161) Branch 1, E2161 12:35:40 

(Branch 1) E2161 go ahead (E2161) Back here near the origin, are you going to send a division out this 

way when you get one or some resources, I know you guys are really strapped but we’re going to start 

to get rollout down into the canyon across the highway (Branch 1) I copy, are you able to control that 

(radio drops) and hold the highway? (E2161) That’s what we’re trying to do, it’s going to get too much 

for one engine to handle, E2176 is still committed down into Pulga, buttoning(?) up those structures 

(Branch 1) I copy. With your 2 resources, that’s all we have out there (E2161) Copy...anything, when 

patrol, anything comes available, we’ll take it (Branch 1) I copy, are you able to break the other Engine 

free and have them help you hold that road? (E2161) Negative, all their work would be for nothing if 

they got out of there (Branch 1) I copy (FC Ekdahl) Branch 2, Oroville

12:35:38 (VOL12) Oroville, volunteer 12, is the gate on the A line open? (FC Delong) Unknown (VOL12) 

Gates are usually locked on both ends, going through to Inskip would be the better route

12:36:03 (FC Delong) Squad 21, correction on routing, use the B line, the paved road, across to 33 

(static..unreadable)

12:36:28 (Branch 2) Oroville, Branch 2 on local, we made contact with the patient, we’ve got the quad 

shuttling firefighters in, can you confirm with Butte medics that we’re going to have at least 2 medic 

units parked at Clark and Pearson, I’d prefer 3, we have another medical that I’m going to try to 

transport out from station 82 (FC Delong) Affirmative, standby, I’ll get back to you

12:37:19 (E610) Oroville, E610 in quarters station 24

12:38:15 Branch II, Oroville. Medics are staged just below the bowling alley on Clark road, 1 medic unit, 

1 supervisor and 2 more medic units in route now. (Branch II): can they stage at the ace hardware on 

clark and Pearson. (Oroville): Affirmative, I’ll try to get them to respond to that location, believe they 

weren’t able to make it that high up. 

(Butte Support) 12:39:30 Division Hotel, ST9121C. Do we have an escort for these (????). (Div. Hotel): 

Negative, I don’t know what the fire conditions are downhill from us. 
12:39:33: Branch II, Oroville. They (medics) stated negative, round valley road and clark road if you can 

meet at that location. 

(Butte Support) 12:44:09: Div Hotel, 9121C. Requesting an additional bus to the Walgreens. (Div Hotel): I 

will see what I can do, the bus that I thought I was going to be able to use is high centered and I can’t get 

it out of the road. (Div Hotel): Operations or IC, Hotel. (Operations): Go ahead (Div Hotel): I need an 

additional bus to Wal greens at Skyway and Bille for evacuations. (Operations): We’re working with SO 

right now, we’ll see what we can do. (Hotel): Copy, just have it on your list at some point, we have a TRA 

established and we are protecting the building. (Branch II): Hotel, Branch II, how are you holding up? 

(Hotel): we are sporadically fighting fire to hold the skyway to keep getting people down from the 

Magalia side to bring them to the TRA at Wal greens, which we are defending. We are going to shuttle 

them out with buses. I got 9220C, 9120C and several Chico fire rigs.

12:44:38: (Station 74): walk in medical for an elderly female with 3rd degree burns, request code 3 

medics.

12:44:57: Oroville copies, do you have a percentage of body burned?

12:45:27: (Station 74): Oroville, station 74, approximately 10-15% 3rd degree burns, head, neck. 

(Oroville): Oroville copies, would like an air ambulance? 

12:45:42: (Station 74): Negative, Just ground transport. 

(Butte Support) 12:46:35: (Hotel): Go to the Wal greens at sky way and bille, Offload the crew and come 

up with another driver and we’ll either take the inmates up there or put you guy to work up here doing 

fuels reduction right around the Wal greens, to improve the defend ability of the building. 

(Butte Support) 12:27:38: Branch II, E45. We have a situation on our hands at the hospital and we need

at least 4 additional engines, any type. 

(Butte Support) 12:48:51: Branch II, Echo. (Div Echo): Do we have a bus set up somewhere for evacuees? 

I have one (Evacuee) in my vehicle. (Branch II) Did you copy E45 traffic? They are having an issue at the 

hospital and need 4 engines immediate of any type. Take the patient to the hospital and shelter them. 

(Echo): Copy, I’ll do that. 

(Butte Support) 12:52:04: (Camp AA) B2112, Camp Air attack. Do you have any intelligence over there. 

(B2112): Got up to Doe mill ridge, looked over the fire to Nimshew road, looks like its on the backside of 

Nimshew (?????) the canyon yet, but lower end is hard to tell, maybe into the paradise side, (??????) 

slop over into the Butte creek drainage. 

12:55:45 (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville, not sure what your branch boundaries are, 2 people are taking 

refuge in Bille park, do you have anyone available? (Branch II): It’s in my branch, branch 4 is taking care 

of my area while I work on these burn victims. 

12:56:59: (Oroville): Branch 4, Oroville. I have a report of multiple people taking refuge in Bille park, 

don’t know if you have resources available to respond to that area.

12:58:10: (Hotel): Oroville, Div hotel, what’s the cross street for Bille park. (Oroville): standby, I’m 

putting it in CAD now. (E2165): Branch 4, E2165. We’ve come across fire at south park and (????). All 

residences are still in the area, working on evacuations, we could use an additional 5 engines. 
12:59:08: (E327): Oroville, Engine 327, report by a passerby of a small spot fire on Honey run.

13:01:15: (Branch II): Oroville, branch II, there is 2 burn victims, not 3. 81 is transporting them to the 

medics now, let the medics know they are in route. 

13:02:33: (E327): Oroville, E327, Be advised we have fire on both sides of honey run. Requesting 

additional engines and a water tender. (Oroville): is this part of the main fire? (E327): I believe it to be. 

(Oroville): copy, cross on honeyrun? (E327): cross will be Centerville and Honeyrun. 

(Butte Support) 13:02:52: (Hotel): IC or Operations, Hotel. I’ve got skyway cleared from about 3 miles 

above Wagstaff, proceeding up into Magalia. I’ve got some vehicles held up here, I got engines trying to 

hold the skyway to keep the evacuation route open. TRA is still operating at Wal greens at Bille and 

Skyway. (IC): Copy, I got three buses coming out of SO, I just got to get them engines to escort them 

through, so we can get the people sheltered in place out. Aircraft is going to help you on skyway. 

(Hotel): Skyway and Clark is where I could use aircraft. (IC): copy, additionally, were going to turn Neal 

road into two ways out of paradise, so it will be a little delayed getting responders in, my priority is to 

getting everyone off the hill. (Hotel): Copy, I’ve got (????) at Skyway and clark with fire impinging on the 

intersection, I’m going to try to get some aircraft in. 

(Butte Support) 13:11:34: Branch II, 901. Bille park is clear, were moving them to Wal greens. (Branch II): 

Branch 4, Branch II. I’ve got my branch back. (Branch 4): IC, Branch 4 requesting one medic unit to 

Wagstaff and Clark for vehicle injuries from a vehicle roll over. 

(Butte Support) 13:16:01: Branch II, U44. We need a response to Clark road below Paradise, I believe it’s 

a new construction grade. There’s a power pole or line across one of our utilities for a strike team 

leader, if they could remove the line. If PG&E could come down and assist.

(Butte Support) 13:17:29: (Squad 81): Confirming location for ambulance, were heading down Clark

road, just about to Round valley ranch road with 2 burn victims. They stated they were staging at Round 

valley ranch road, should be 1 medic supervisor, 1 medic unit, 2 additional medic units.

(Butte Support) 13:17:54: (Branch 4): Operations, Branch 4 requesting 1 medic unit to Clark and 

Wagstaff for injuries do to a traffic collision. 

13:18:30: (Squad 81): Oroville, Squad 81 with the medics at round valley ranch road and clark road. 

(Butte Support) 13:21:11: (IC): Branch II, IC. We’ve got some buses to pick up the shelter in place. Whats 

a good location. (Branch II): Bille road and skyway. (IC): ok, I’ve got an escort, E72, it’s a Forest Service 

engine and they’re going to lead them and escort them. (Branch II): Give them hotels information, we 

got fire on the roof. 

13:21:29: (Squad 81): Oroville, squad 81 requesting to set up an LZ at Clark road and Durham Pentz. 

13:21:48: (Oroville): Squad 81 confirming your requesting an air medic. 

13:21:59: (Squad 81): Affirmative, requesting 3 air ships to Clark road and Durham Pentz road. 

13:23:18: (Oroville) Branch II, Oroville Emergency traffic. Received a couple of calls from 1040 Bushman 

road in Paradise Garden Senior apartments for multiple apartments still occupied and fire in the 

building.
13:23:24: (E327): Oroville, E327. Be advised, were going to be leaving this spot, fire is on both sides of 

Honeyrun. (Oroville): Oroville copies, Camp IC is advised. 

(Butte Support) 13:24:23: (Branch II): IC or Operations, Branch II, Priority Traffic. 

(Butte Support) 13:24:32: (IC): Branch II, IC go ahead. (Branch II): We’ve got fire at the hospital, 

threatening the main hospital, were losing water pressure in the hydrants, I need all the water tenders I 

can get at the Feather River hospital. (IC): WT 3, WT 37, WT 41 in route from butte college. (Branch II): 

I’m responding directly to the hospital, contact Capt. Finney. 

(Butte Support) 13:25:45: (B1618): Branch II, 1618 at 740 Bushman are you ready for a report. (Branch 

II): Affirmative (B1618): 3 complexes well involved. Small number of buildings, just started to become 

involved. I will make sure they get evacuated. 

(Butte Support) 13:27:31: (Hotel): Just FYI I’m at Clark and Skyway TRA, with 200 people, trying to get 

some engines up here, and working aircraft in now. (IC): Div hotel, IC. I’ve got 3 to 4 buses with forest 

service engine 72 as an escort, they’ve been instructed to tie with you, they’re going to try to come Clark 

road and to pick up shelter in place. (Hotel): Copy, heavy fire conditions right now, at Clark and skyway 

and I don’t know how far down Clark what the conditions are like, I don’t have any intel on that. There is 

a big traffic jam, probably 150-200 people up in here. (Hotel): I’ve cleared the Skyway from Wagstaff to 

Clark road, there are no more people on foot or vehicles on there. We are attempting to hold Skyway as 

an evacuation route and put out all the vehicles that are on fire. We have a strike team on its way to 

help defend all the people that are up here. 

(Butte Support) 13:29:05: (Foxtrot): Branch 4, Foxtrot. We need evacuation orders for cumberlin to 

Coutelinc on Skyway; numerous structures involved off of Handover and lower Magalia. (Branch 4): IC, 

Branch 4. Do you copy traffic with Division Foxtrot, evacuation orders are being requested on the west 

side of skyway, from cumberlin down to Paradise Pines area. 

(Butte Support) 13:36:25: (IC): Branch II, Camp IC. Just for accountability did you move Division Foxtrot 

to Branch 4? Or do you still have it under you? (Branch II): No he’s in Branch 4. Also, I am at the hospital, 

we got one building well involved, that’s going to start threatening the main hospital. I’ve got a lot of 

patients up here that are basically in the helispot and SO is starting to shuttle some down to their 

vehicles, could we get a bus up here? (IC): We have some buses coming and we’ll get them where they 

need to go. How many patients or people do we need to get out? (Branch II): Quite a few I don’t have a 

count. Pearson is impassible with anything but a pickup. (IC): Can you get give me an estimate? (Branch 

II): 45-50 

(Butte Support) 13:37:40: (IC): Branch II, Camp IC. Just confirming division hotel is in branch 4 also. 

(Branch II): Negative, I have Hotel and Echo and then Foxtrot & Golf are in Branch 4. 

(Butte Support) 13:38:04: (Branch II): We basically drew a line from Wagstaff, everything south of 

Wagstaff is Branch II and everything north of that is Branch 4. 

(Butte Support) 13:39:21: Branch II, Chief (?????). Want to let you know that I’m working on your North 

flank with some resources that were by themselves down here. We’re trying to get a flank started, take 

it back down to the college. (Branch II): Ok, are you on lower Clark? (Chief ????): On Pence, holding it 

along Pence is what the goal is right now. (Branch II): Copy that. (Chief ???): I don’t want to be out of 
your chain of command, so let me know if you want me to continue with that. (Branch II): Just try to get 

an anchor some place, and try to prevent from continuing down further. (Chief ??): I know resources are 

short, but I’ll take any dozers or crews.

(Butte Support) 13:41:53: Branch II, Chief 20. Could you send utility companies to cut the line along 

pence, it’s becoming completely impassible due to utility lines down. (Branch II): Copy that, I’ll get ahold 

of PG&E.

(Butte Support) 13:43:42: Branch II, Camp Air Attack. Papa Juliet is trying to work its way down, we got 

gas for a couple buckets. (Branch II): Copy that, let them know from the east and the North is a staging 

area for the patients, so be careful on approach. (Camp AA): Branch II, Camp Air Attack. Who has Butte 

college, what branch is that? (Branch II): I’m not sure Jake. (Camp AA): Operations, Camp Air attack. 

What I am trying to ascertain is I’m getting reports from CHP, that there is evacuations, needed at Butte 

College for Air craft to respond in and fly people out. I want to confirm that is the case and if we can 

have all those requests come through your chain of command to me to organize versus direct through 

CHP. I’d like to close the loop having them self-dispatch. (Operations): I copy, not aware of any 

evacuations from Butte College area, the unit responsible for that area is butte college contingency 

group. (Camp AA): I understand so unless I hear from you or one of the branches for such a need, I’m 

going to go ahead and keep denying requests for non-fire aircraft in those areas. 

(Butte Support) 13:45:54: (Branch II): Operations, Branch II. Request for PG&E to clear the line on Pentz, 

and also on Pearson so we can keep the road open and Clark as well. (Operations): All power is out in 

Paradise, no work resource’s around traffic. (Branch II): I understand, the problem is the power poles are 

coming down and blocking our access. 

13:47:36: E941, Oroville. I have a report of possible disabled people stuck in residence at 8675 Skyway, 

Spears canyon view home. Structure is still viable now. The caller was concerned, are you able to access 

that location? (E941): We’ll head down that way.

13:48:31: Oroville, Camp Air Attack did you have traffic? (Oroville): Affirmative, Tanker information, T82, 

T74, VLAT, T912, they took off the hold T02 and T07. (AA): T02, T17, T12, T82, T74, VLAT, T912, 3 S-2s, 

83, 93, and then what’s the 4th S-2. (Oroville): T89 off a hold grass valley. 

13:52:01: Camp Air attack Oroville, just confirming the relief ASM is the Forest Ranch IC as well? 

(Oroville): Copy, I relayed all aircraft to forest ranch IC. 

(Butte Support) 13:57:43: Camp Air attack, operations, you were broken. (Camp Air attack): up towards 

the heel, left flank, building line down into Magalia. Got to button that up so it doesn’t hook around the 

Magalia reservoir were dipping out of. 

(Butte Support) 14:01:26: (Branch II): hotel, branch II. Your Location? (Hotel): (????) and Skyway, not 

sure that you can make it up here. (Branch II): I’m on skyway right now. (Hotel): I met with Division 

Foxtrot, I think I’m going to take from here down to Wagstaff and he’ll have everything here up to 

Magalia. (Branch II): Who’s going to take the lower end of the skyway? (Hotel): Right now I am tied up 

between here to Wagstaff. (Branch II): Its running into lower Paradise, down below Pearson. Have you 

seen B2113 around? (Hotel): if you want to just take it at Bille on down that would be ok. 
(Butte Support) 14:02:53: B2113, Branch II. What’s your location? (B2113): Heading back up to Clark and 

Wagstaff. (Branch II): Can you take Bille Road, lower end of skyway, that would be your division. 

(B2113): Copy. 

14:03:49: Branch 4, Oroville. Receiving a report of elderly blind lady unable to evacuate 

Drive Magalia.

(Butte Support) 14:05:05: Division Foxtrot, Branch 4. Report of an elderly female unable to evacuate 

 Drive Magalia. 

(Butte Support) 14:09:16: Operations, Branch II. We have 3 patients that made it from feather river 

hospital to the Kmart parking lot that need to make to Enloe. Can you send an ambulance to come pick 

them up. (Operations): Copy, are they at Kmart? (Branch II): They are at Kmart. 

(Butte Support) 14:10:36: (Branch II): If they can’t get a medic unit up there, an SO vehicle could get 

them down too. (Operations): Do you have SO vehicle up there right now? That will be the fastest way 

to get them down because we’re going to have to work an ambulance up. (Branch II): There in a POV, so 

if they get an SO vehicle to lead them out, so if one of those SO vehicle heading to the hospital could 

peel off and just grab that vehicle and get them down the hill. 

(Butte Support) 14:13:17: Operations, Hotel. I got 2 strike teams deployed on the TRA at Clark and 

Skyway, we got fire onto the building we got people in. Trying to hold the building. (Operations): Copy. 

Branch II, Operations. Just spoke with Sherriff and they have confirmation that patients form Kmart have 

already been dealt with. 

(Butte Support) 14:17:15: College Contingency, Camp IC. Just looking for an update on conditions, is fire 

down in the flats yet? (College Contingency): Negative. Still up a little west of Circle J road which is off of 

Round Valley road there, I’ve got another plan, I’m going to come to the ICP and touch bases with you. 

(Butte Support) 14:19:41: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. We’ve got direct fire impingement on our TRA, were 

running out of water, I need some water tenders, I got about 150 people in the building here. (Branch 

II): Repeat your location. (Hotel): Clark and Skyway. (Branch II): Operations did you copy. (Operations): 

Negative, repeat traffic. (Branch II): we need water tenders, to Clark and skyway, we have fire 

impingement on a TRA, were trying to move some engines in that direction also. (Operations): I’ve got 

none left in staging. You’ll have to pull from (???) I don’t know if you have anything , if your able to catch 

anything (???). (Branch II): Yeah I’ll check. We could use more resources when you get them. (Hotel): 

we’ll do what we can with what we got, but I got 150 people in a building and I got several commercial 

buildings and a gas station well involved up against the building I have them in. 

(Butte Support) 14:28:30: (Hotel): You can make it down the skyway, its going to be blocked with heavy 

fire between Clark and Wagstaff. There’s some Alpha strike teams coming up and we’ll share them 

between us and Foxtrot, but were just trying to keep our TRA intact here , we got about 150 people in 

here. (Branch II): I copy that, I got a ST of Alpha’s sitting on Clark, if you need water you got them there. 

(Butte Support) 14:33:58: Camp Air attack places order for additional VLAT and 2 additional large air 

tankers.

(Butte Support) 14:45:08: (Hotel): Branch 4 and Operations, Hotel. Were holding our own at the TRA, 

feeling pretty good about it right now. We bumped the fire around it. I’ll start redeploying the strike 
teams, once we are secure up there. I’m going to run the skyway, between there and Wagstaff and see if 

I can get a bus to get these people out. (Branch II): Copy, I just saw several ST of ambulances turning 

around at Bille area on Skyway, you might be able to get some up there to start transporting down or 

work with the SO for a bus. (Hotel): The issue is that all the vehicles people abandon on skyway are 

burning so I’m going to see if its open to get something through up there. (Branch II): Repeat traffic 

(Hotel): The main issue right now is all the vehicles that were left on the Skyway between clark and 

Wagstaff are all burning. So I’m seeing if I can get something through here. (Branch II): Copy that, either 

that or get a dozer or something to push them out of the way. 

(Butte Support) 14:49:43: (Camp IC): Hotel, Camp IC. I’ve got a front-end loader that can help move cars 

off the road, I’ve got Captain Alcantar here, that will come up with him. (Hotel): have him come up clark, 

and get clark open. I’m trying to determine if Clark is passable. We’ll start working a bus up Clark and 

skyway to get all those people out of those buildings. We’re going to start having medical emergencies 

with the smoke if we don’t get them evacuated. Let’s open Clark and Skyway, it going to be impassible 

for a while. (Camp IC): Just confirming, the buses are up there, we thought we got everybody out of 

clark and skyway. (Hotel): Negative, we probably have 100-150 people still in the TRA. (Camp IC): we’ll 

arrange that with U2154 Captain Alcantar. 

(Butte Support) 14:53:51 (Hotel) Branch II, Hotel. How is everything at Bille and Skyway. (Branch II): It’s 

clear down there. (Hotel): How (???) fire bypass Bille road and that intersection, we have people at the 

drugstore. (Branch II): Yeah we went around it, I went up skyway past Wagstaff about half mile or so and 

there building burning out next to the road that will cause some issues, but once they burn out it should 

be clear. (Hotel): We still have quite a few structures we can save right now along the skyway, between 

clark and here. And then we’ll try to open up that road, we’ll just have to try and extinguish that way 

going downhill. Also I’m going to check Clark, that would be the easiest way to get people out the TRA. 

(Butte Support) 14:58:28 (Camp IC) Branch I, Camp IC. Can we have someone meet a couple SO officers 

out at highway 70 and concow road, to get them into the Concow area. (Branch I): Affirmative. (Camp 

IC): they will be assessing civilian damage along the road.

(Butte Support) 15:03:18: (Captain 45): Division Echo or branch II, Captain 45. (branch II): coming from 

(???) in the area, Ponderosa school off Pence road is being impacted, no resources in the area. 

(Butte Support) 15:04:10: (ST2808): Branch II, ST2808. We were directed to head toward the hospital, 

were at Pence road and (??) reservoir road, fire is blowing across the road here, doesn’t look like were 

going to make it up top. (Branch II): Do your best, there’s some structures down there for you to do 

structure defense at the lower end. 

(Butte Support) 15:07:12: Branch II, Safety (???), confirming Kmart is in your branch. (Branch II): Affirm. 

(Safety (??): I need an ambulance code 3 for a burn victim at the Kmart parking lot and were getting one 

more off Wagstaff. 

(Butte Support) 15:07:43: (Branch II): Operations or IC, Branch II. (Operations): go ahead. (Branch II): Did 

you copy traffic for a code 3 medic to Kmart Wagstaff and Clark. (Operations): Negative.

(Butte Support) 15:09:51: (Safety M???): Operations, Safety M???. (Operations): Go ahead. (Safety 

M??): Currently we have 1 male burn victim, were working on a second coming out of Wagstaff. 
(Butte Support) 15:12:11: (Camp IC): Branch II, Camp IC. I have an address for you, 772 Elliot Road, 

considered critical infrastructure, communication infrastructure, high priority. (Branch II): yeah fire has 

already gone through that area. 

(Butte Support) 15:12:49 (Camp IC): Branch II, Camp IC. We got 2 more (???), resources are starting to 

show up. I got 2 Charlie’s and 2 bravos. Where do you want them, I’ll give you the identifiers. (Branch II): 

I’m heading back to Chico to get fuel and then code 3 to Butte College to talk about it, right now the 

plans aren’t clear, we would throw them up there but there’s no anchor point and its getting chaotic. 

(Butte Support) 15:13:22: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. I’m pretty sure I’m going to make it all the down the 

skyway, to Wagstaff. I got a lot of structures that I can pick up if I had 2 engines and I could use some 

water tenders too. (Branch II): IC did you copy, send some resources to Division Hotel. (IC): what was 

your request, how much and what type. (Branch II): Mainly engines and water tenders, any type, its on 

the skyway between Wagstaff and Clark. We’re trying to open up that area, put the structures out that 

are burning in there and open it up for evacuations. (IC): Hotel, camp IC are you ready to copy numbers. 

(Hotel): I’m coming down the Skyway from clark, go ahead with the numbers. (IC): 4815 Alpha, 4280 

Alpha, 3250 Bravo. (Hotel): copy, have them go to Bille and Skyway. 

(Butte Support) 15:17:57: (D2103) Division Foxtrot, captain Norman, D2103. (Hotel): Go ahead for 

division hotel. (D2103): Copy division hotel, I’m in middle to lower part of Paradise, I can cover this for 

you. If you have engines, one of the priorities would be the high school. Probably need couple, 3, 4, 5 

engines. (Hotel): Copy, I’ve got 3 strike teams coming, I’ll get 1 in there. Skyway is passible from Clark, 

down to Wagstaff, I’m heading to Bille right now. (D2103) Copy I’ve been up and down most those 

roads, your at skyway and Bille? (Hotel): Heading there right now. (D2103): I’ll meet you there. 

(Operations): Branch I, Operations. I have an additional division that I can assign to you and then I’ve got 

2 charlie strike teams and couple more golfs if you need. (Branch I): I could use 1 additional Charlie. 

15:30:31: (Camp Air Attack): Oroville, Camp Air attack. Your 2-additional type 1 tankers will be T03 

inbound from McClellan, and T103 out of Redding. 

(Butte Support) 15:32:26: (College Contingency): IC, College contingency Priority. I have 2 inmates with 

minor to moderate burns at the end of rattlesnake off Clark, I need a code 3 medic unit.

(Butte Support) 15:33:13: (Camp IC): copy, is one ambulance going to suffice? And what crew? (College 

Contingency): Affirmative, 1 ambulance and 9142G, the strike team leader will handle the IWI

15:35:28: Oroville, Camp IC, Branch 3 and been renamed to branch 4. 

15:38:30: (Camp IC): Oroville, Camp IC. Clark road has been evacuated, from Durham pence to Paradise.

(Butte Support) 15:40:48: (3250B): Hotel, 3250B. (Hotel): 3250B, your location? (3250B): Were leaving 

staging now. (Hotel): what staging? (3250B): Camp staging at Butte College. (Hotel): I need you to come 

up Skyway clark road, skyway between clark and wagstaff is closed with a tree and powerlines coming 

down. I need you to come up to the skyway, if you want to take clark to Wagstaff, or actually take clark 

to Bille, come across Bille and south of the skyway, I need you in here all the commercial buildings. 

(3250B): I copy, we were given routing instruction of neale road and the skyway, is that no good? 
(Hotel): affirm use that. Come up neale road to skyway and then come up the skyway and hit me on CDF 

Tac 26. 

(Butte Support) 15:42:32: Division Echo, 08 Alpha, on command. (Echo): 08 Alpha use your full 

identifier, we have multiple strike teams with the same number. Use your full identifier. (2808 Alpha): 

Copy, this is 2808 Alpha, we have units in active structure defense in the Sierra Del Sol neighborhood. 

We’re sending an engine or 2 up past the hospital to do some work up at the school directed by division 

foxtrot. (Echo): this is division hotel give that to division echo. 

(Butte Support) 15:43:23: (9241C): division Hotel, 9241C. Is there a plan for the residences up here as 

well as the 3 Charlie strike teams? (Hotel): Once those buildings are safe, start working your way down 

doing structure defense along skyway from Clark. (9241C): Copy I’ll tie in with the other 2 ST. (Hotel): 

leave U2135 and 1 engine with the people that are sheltered in place. I’ve got some rotors that are 

coming to clear Clark and were going to get a bus up there and get them out. 

(Butte Support) 15:45:00: ?????, Branch II. We have a priority need for engine ST for structure 

protection at Circle J, fire is impacting that area. (Branch II): copy, operations, branch II. (Operations? or 

IC? No identifier): Who are they going to work for and how much? (Branch II): Utility 44 and lets start 

with 2 strike teams. 

(Butte Support) 15:45:33: (Camp IC): Utility 44, camp IC. (U44): Utility 44. (IC): What division are you in. 

(U44): I made it through the floating division on the Clark road area. I was never given an identifier. 

(Butte Support) 15:48:59: (Branch 4): Operations, Branch 4, resource request. 

(Butte Support) 15:49:08: (Operations): Branch 4 go ahead. (Branch 4): Request 2 dozers, 2 strike teams 

of Golfs, and 2 hose modules to Division Foxtrot, Handover and at westpark drive. 

(Butte Support) 16:06:05: (Branch 4) IC, Branch 4. (IC): Were going to establish another division in your 

branch, division J-Juliet and they’re going to have the portion down Honey run canyon back up towards 

the east. 

(Butte Support) 16:15:58 (Golf): Branch II, Golf. I got B-line buses heading up the skyway right now, just 

passing Pearson. (Branch II): Right above Bille, there’s a tree across the road. They’re going to need to 

stage at the Wal greens right there.

(Butte Support) 16:19:10: (Echo): Branch II, division Echo. Just so your aware, Dozer 2544 and Transport 

are parked at the spring Valley School. The operator went to the hospital for smoke inhalation. (Branch 

II): Copy, what’s your location. (Echo): I’m headed up pence, towards Pearson now. (Branch II): I’m at 

the hospital now. (Echo): On my way now. 

(Butte Support) 16:24:11: (Operations): division H, operations. There’s a tree blocking the road, at Bille 

and Oliver, that’s preventing access. (Hotel): copy, I’m going to try to get these people out of this TRA, 

then I’ll go work on them. (Camp Air Attack): Oroville, Camp Air attack. Can you advise SO there is a 

drone being flown at HWY 32 and 99, near sycamore creek. 

(Butte Support) 16:29:42: (Air Attack): Camp IC, Air attack. Touching basis with you, solid 30 minutes of 

flight time left, then were going to have to start heading back, do you have any questions before we 

depart? I’m estimating we’ll depart around 1730. (IC): ?????? (Air Attack): AA copies. (IC): Branch I, 
Camp IC. Were at the point, where if you have any additional resource orders for the night we need 

them now. We’re going to start rolling things over for tomorrow. (Branch I): I copy, we should be able to 

hold with what we have for the night. 

(Butte Support) 16:32:04: (Branch 4): Operations, Branch 4. (Operations): Were at the point where were 

going to start rolling over resources for day shift tomorrow. Do you have any requests tonight prior to us 

doing that. (Branch 4): Standby. 

(Butte Support) 16:32:31: (Operations): Branch II, operations. (Branch II): branch II copies traffic, if I 

could have 2 more ST any type to division golf, after that we can hold for the night. 

(Butte Support) 16:34:02: (Hotel): Operations, Hotel. Started the evacuation of the TRA at Clark and 

Skyway. We’re directing probably 150 people, to drive down Clark. I’ve got some engines out in front of 

them, law enforcement is going to lead them to the Kmart and then from there I need to determine 

where to send them from the Kmart on Clark road. 

(Butte Support) 16:35:46 (B1609): Hotel, B1609. I have a group of cars that were sitting at the church, 

would you like them to also join this group that is heading to the Kmart. (Hotel): Affirm, try to get them

all in one spot, and if we can we’ll caravan them all down, through clark all the way down towards the 

college, not sure if its passible right now., but I need to get them out up here, I got nothing to support 

them here. We’re getting close to (??????). 

16:37:27: (Operations): D2103, Operations. 

(Butte Support) 16:43:41 (unknown identifier): ST9260C, and 4817Alpha are heading to division golf. 

(Branch II): copy. (Unknow Identifier): Also, do you have the status of the hospital? (Branch II): The main 

building and OB are still standing, and all the structures around it destroyed. And their outpatient 

surgery is still standing. 

(Butte Support) 16:44:42 (Golf) Branch 2, Golf, what were those strike team numbers? (Branch 2) I’m 

driving down a bad road right now, Operations can you repeat those numbers? (Operations) Yeah, 

9260C and 4817A (Golf) I copy. Branch 2, ...get some heavy equipment up here on the Skyway, Skyway is 

basically closed down with powerlines, trees across the roadway. The heavy equipment would help get 

these roadways back up (Branch 2) Is it safe for PGE to get in there and remove those lines? (Golf) Right 

now, no. 16:45:45 (Branch 2) Copy, operations do you have any equipment you can get on Skyway 

(Operations) Copy the request for heavy equipment to Skyway, don’t currently have any at scene 

(Branch 2) Ok, can you check with Caltrans or Public Works and see if they can assist

(Butte Support) 16:46:16 (Hotel) Division Golf, division Hotel on Command, 3250Bravo is sitting at Black 

Olive and Skyway. Can you reach out to them, they are on my TAC (Golf) Copy

(Butte Support) 16:47:09 (Operations) Branch 2, Operations, there is a loader down here in staging. 

We’ll send them up that way, do you want them to contact Golf? (Branch 2) Affirm, have them use their 

judgement whether it’s going to be safe or not, we’re going to try to move that one back down out of 

Hotel, clear it off a little bit. We’ll try both directions.

(Butte Support) 16:49:07 (9273G) Operations, we’re at our assigned location and nobody is here. We’re 

at Skyway and Andover
(Butte Support) 16:49:44 (Golf) Branch 2, Golf, FYI we’re losing our hydrant pressure in the downtown 

area, I hope we can get a rep up to the reservoir (Branch 2) Operations, Branch 2, you know the water 

system better than I do, can they boost the pressure in Paradise or what’s the deal (Operations) It’s all 

gravity feed, except for the upper two zones that are pumped 16:50:30 (Branch 2) Can you make contact 

with the water district and see if they can increase pressure or can see what’s going on up here. If not, 

let’s order a bunch of water tenders to get them up on the line tonight (Operations) Copy

(Butte Support) 16:50:54 (FC Ekdahl) Branch 2, Oroville (broken) a couple trapped at Twilight court, 

cross of Northpoint Drive 16:51:15 (Branch 2) Repeat the location (FC Ekdahl) Twilight court, cross 

of Northpoint Drive (Branch 2) I’m not familiar with that area, can you walk me to it? (no identifier) That 

will be the end of Valley Ridge (Branch 2) Ok, I will try to work my way there

(Butte Support) 16:51:47 (Operations) 9253G, Operations, you’re to report to B2105 when you get up 

there

(Butte Support) 16:52:22 (ST9231C) Branch 2, as far as the area of that rescue, I’ll put 2362 on there.

16:52:43: (Operations): Golf, Operations. FYI, the heavy equipment that we thought was coming your 

way is not actually in staging. You’ll have to get by until something shows up. 

16:54:05: (Operations): Branch 4, Operations. Where are you on resource needs? (Branch 4): Hold on, 

let me check with Div Hotel. (Branch 4): Hotel, Branch 4. Do you have any resource needs for this 

evening? (Hotel): I’ll take any type engine, probably 10, 6 water tenders, and a fuel tender. 

16:54:48: (Branch 4): Copy, 10 engines any type, 1 fuel tender, what was the 3rd item? (Hotel): 6 water 

tenders. (Branch 4): Operations, Branch 4. (Operations): Branch 4, operations, I copy the traffic. (Branch 

4): Additionally, no other resources needed for Div Foxtrot. 

16:56:07: (Branch 4): Operations, Branch 4. Just an update, our current plan of actions is structure 

defense in the Magalia and Paradise pines area. We are using some engines to hold coudelinc road. 

(Operations): Copy, I’ll have the following resources coming your way, to Div Hotel. 3615C, 3800Alpha, 

WTE169.

16:57:29: (9273G): Operations, 9273G. 

16:57:43: (Operations): Gold unit for operations repeat your identifier and go ahead. (9273G): Yeah 

9273G, we got it situated thanks. 

16:58:07: (B2411): Branch II, B2411. At (???) and Campbell, where can we meet up with you. (Branch II): 

I got 2 civilians in my truck right now, trying to get down to lower skyway. Where are you? (B2411): 

Were at clark creek in Paradise. (Branch II): track me over the Pearson, Skyway area and let me know 

when you get in the area. 

17:03:32: (Branch II): Golf, Branch II. Just where the skyway splits down below you, there is a tree across 

a vehicle. Occupants uninjured, skyway is blocked going down. 

17:04:31: (Golf): Branch II, Golf. What’s the size of the tree. (Branch II): The base is about 20, just need 

to (unreadable). 
17:05:49: (E2362): Branch II, E2362. At Valley ridge right now, point west drive. Do we have an address 

for the victims down here that need rescuing? (Branch II): 304704 Twilight. 

17:14:29: (Camp AA): Oroville, camp AA. (Oroville): Camp AA, Oroville. Requesting information on the 

TFR, (unreadable) information stayed the same or is there any changes. (Camp AA): Oroville, Camp AA, 

you’re weak. Confirm, continue with the TFR, what I gave you this morning is still affirm, continue with 

that. (Oroville): (unreadable), confirming if there was any changes. (Camp AA): No changes for now, just 

information, early up tomorrow 1 AA, 4 tankers. They will be early up 0700. 

17:18:01: (Camp AA): Camp IC, Camp AA, Priority. 

17:18:42: (Camp AA): Camp Operations, Camp AA, priority. 

17:25:18: (9241C): Hotel, 9241C. At Wagstaff, 1 patient (unreadable) with burn injuries to the feet, 

get me a code 2 medic unit. 

17:26:06: (Hotel): Operations or Branch 4, Hotel. (No identifier): Medic units in route. (Hotel): Copy, also 

I have not seen any of the ST, if you have anything available, everything from, all the commercial 

buildings, on skyway between Wagstaff and all the way down to paradise are on fire. Anything you got 

would be helpful. 

17:27:03: (Operations): Hotel, Operations. Confirming, you have 8 engine strike teams in your area and 

we have more. We can get you 2 additional strike teams of engines if needed. (Hotel): I gave up 4 of the 

ST to Div Golf, for downtown Paradise. I don’t have that right now, I’ve got to Charlies and 1 Alpha. 

That’s all I have right now. (No identifier): (Unreadable) (Hotel): 4815 Alpha, 4282 Alpha, 3250 Bravo. 

17:28:00: (Hotel): I have 9120C, 9220C, 4159 Alpha, 9241C. Everything else has moved onto Golf. That is 

Chico Div 1, Chico OES E8432, Chico E15 have all gone into Golf. 

17:30:22: (Operations): Hotel, confirming I’ll send you 2 engines (unreadable ???) (Operations): You will 

be getting 4160 Alpha and 4078 Charlie. (Unreadable) (Hotel): Take Clark road, Bille road to Bille and 

skyway and contact me on CDF Tac 26. 

17:35:11: (Camp AA): Oroville, Camp AA aircraft release. Bravo 58, T100, T103, released 15 minutes, 

back to Redding. T74, released Columbia 30 minutes back, T912 on the deck McClellan, there 

(Unreadable) Chico. That should close out all aircraft over the top of the incident. (Oroville): Oroville, 

copies. (Camp AA): AA210 is returning Chico, 5 minutes in route. 

17:40:40: (ST9231C): Branch II, ST9231C. Just information the 2 residences that were trapped at 

Twilight have been removed and escorted out. (Branch II): Copy. 

17:43:31: (Branch II): Operations, Branch II, Priority. Civilian medical on Wagstaff, just below View acres’

drive, burns. Have you been notified about that yet? 

17:43:53: (Operations): Negative. Do you have an address? (Branch II): Wagstaff. 

17:45:25: (Branch II): Hotel, Branch II. Did you cop the medical on your division? (Unreadable) (Branch 

II): Wagstaff, civilians burned to the feet. ST out of Shasta is with them now requesting a medic unit. 

(Hotel): Yeah I had that about 20 minutes ago, medic unit should be in route or here now. (Branch II): 

There not there yet. 
17:46:47: (WT45): Branch II, WT45. We’ve ran out of all our water resources near the hospital. The 

closest one if Lime Saddle boat launch, there’s a good hydrant in there. (Branch II): I think the whole 

system is down in paradise so you’re probably going to have to shuttle.

17:52:07: (Echo): Branch II, Echo. I’m going to check an address that we talked about earlier. (Branch II): 

Repeat that (Echo): I’m going to check that address on Valley Ridge that we talked about earlier. (Branch 

II): Yeah (unreadable) twilight we got it, and I checked your address and right now it is still standing, its 

making a hard run out of the canyon. (Echo): Copy that. (Branch II): (Unreadable) No Guarantees. (Echo): 

Alright, I’m down Valleyview, I’m going to look. (Branch II): Careful its coming out of the canyon hard. 

17:52:55: (Golf): Branch II, Golf. All the hydrants are down, downtown area, what’s the ETA on water 

tenders. (Branch II): I requested everything we can get. (Branch II): Operations, Branch II. All the hydrant 

systems in Paradise are down, do we have any water tenders coming? (Operations): You got everything 

we got, the issue is that (unreadable) has no power. (Branch II): Copy. Any private tenders coming at all? 

(Operations): They have been assigned. Every Tender is out. (Branch II): Copy. (Operations): 

(unreadable) send them up. (Branch II): All Skyway right now is heavily impacted and were trying to save 

what we can but it’s not looking good. 

17:54:33: (WT45): Branch II, WT45. Could you have PG&E make another sweep down pence road, 

they’ve got 2 new power poles that are in the road blocking off our access. (Branch II): Copy, operations 

did you copy?

17:55:09: (Branch II_: Operations, branch II. Request PG&E to Pence, a couple new poles have come 

down and we need to clear it. 

17:56:26: (Hotel): Operations, hotel. Request for Law enforcement to Cabernet for an elderly 

subject refusing to leave. Fire is going to impact his structure and he’s refusing to leave. (Operations): 

Copy, cabernet.

17:57:41: (Operations): Hotel, Operations. LE is working on getting someone there. 

17:57:54: (Hotel): Hotel copies. Also, I just got 3615C, assigned to me, they came up on my tac. I did not 

have them previously, so I don’t know if you want to track them but there working in Hotel. 

(Operations): Can you repeat the identifier strike team that came in your unit and then double check the 

address on Cabernet its coming up as incorrect. (Hotel): 3615C and the address given to me by a Forest 

service engine was Cabernet, I’ll check again. (Operations): copy, I had 3615 coming your way so that 

there in the right place. 

17:58:50: (Foxtrot): Operations, Division foxtrot. I’ve got 3 resources that I’m not going to be able to 

utilize on my division tonight. I’m going to have them stage at Magalia Camp, it’s in close proximity. Ive 

got 9275G, 9273G, and transport dozer 2544. 

17:59:25: (Operations): dozer 2544, ST 9275G, 9253G. (Foxtrot): 9273G and they’re going to stay at 

Magalia camp for tonight. If I can get a reporting location for briefing tomorrow, they’ll be available for 

tomorrow. 

17:59:55: (Operations): Briefing is tomorrow at the fairgrounds at 0700. (Foxtrot): I copy, so for those 

resources I just don’t have a need for them with the job we have going tonight. (Operations): I copy. 

(Branch 4): Copy. 
18:01:32: (Hotel): Operations, Hotel. That’s the best I can get you the engine gave me that information. I 

cannot raise them on Tac. It’s going to be somewhere on Cabernet right at the gas station on skyway 

and clark. I will try and head up there myself. 

18:01:59: B2411, Branch II. (B2411): Branch II, B2411. We just made it to skyway and Pearson. (Branch 

II): Take a right and come up to Elliot. 

18:02:46: (Camp IC): Branch 4, Camp IC. We’ve activated division Kilo which is going to be the Santos 

Ranch area and we’ve got a division supervisor and a ST of engines on their way out. They’ll be working 

for you in Branch 4. There tactical will be Tac 27 and were briefing them here at the ICP. (Branch 4): 

copy, division Kilo, CDF tac 27 on the Santos ranch highway 32 area. (Camp IC): Branch II, Camp IC. There 

is a fuel truck, that they sent to Magalia and I’ve asked them to come back down and stage at Clark road 

and skyway. If you can look into it, apparently, there is a fuel truck in that area. (Branch II): I’ll keep an 

eye out for it. (Camp IC): We probably need to bring it down that is the only fuel truck for the entire 

incident there will be no other fuel trucks, so it’s more accessible by resources and their location needs 

to be known. (Branch II): ones we locate we’ll figure it out, the whole area in there is impacted by fire. 

18:04:18: (Branch 4): IC, Branch 4. Just thinking, it might be out of the way but a better spot for our fuel 

tender might be Magalia. (Camp IC): Problem is every resource down in this area needs to go up to 

Magalia to get it. I’ll let you guys figure out what’s best. We just need to let them know when it shows 

up. (Branch II): Branch 4, Branch II. How about putting it at Station 35. (Branch 4): I believe that will 

work. (Branch II): Station 35 would be good. 

18:12:32: (B2112): IC, B2112. Just notify that fires made a run into the back of the Buzztail community, 

you need to do mandatory evacuations for the Buzztail community. Also, you said the division group 

supervisor’s heading this way. (IC): your Division group sup is heading that way. She’ll be in U2252. It will 

be Division K. (B2112): Copy, again Mandatory evacuations for the Buzztail community, I have several 

residences in here that are going to hold their own, just FYI on that.

18:14:43: (Camp IC): B2112, Camp IC. (B2112): The fire is impacting the buzztail community down off

zinfandel and pam court. We’ll need to expedite evacuations orders. (Unreadable traffic) (Camp IC): 

B2112, you’re going to have to try a different repeater or better location. We’re going to need a better 

geographical or a road name associated with the evacuations. (B2112): IC, B2112, how do you copy? 

(IC): Clear (B2112): We’re going to need all of wilder drive, zinfandel, basically everything from Santos 

ranch road to the Buzztail community which drops it on Wilder and Zinfandel and all associated roads, 

the fire is impacting the community. 

18:16:02: (IC): In progress now. (B2112): we’re going to start going door to door to make sure residences 

are out. 

18:17:03: (Branch 4): B2112, Branch 4. Just advise that I copy those evacuations. (B2112): Affirmative, 

the whole buzztail community, the fire come up out of the Centerville canyon and is impacting off the 

back of pam court and the end of zinfandel drive. We’re going to start going house to house and check 

to make sure everyone is out. 

18:20:39: (Camp IC): Branch II, Camp IC. (Camp IC): Fuel tender for this side of the fire now at Clark road 

and Durham pence at the four corners station, for the lower stuff if they need fuel they can come down 

here. There should be another fuel tender, in that area Magalia not good place to put it now. (Branch II): 
Were going to move it to 35. Also, work with (PID?) and try to get a generator up to their pumping 

station so we can get some water in Paradise, we have nothing. (Camp IC): Making phone calls now. 

18:21:29: (Foxtrot): Branch II, Foxtrot. The powerhouse at the dam is running their pump, we do have 

hydrants up in Magalia. It might be a threat but some of the equipment on the northern end could top 

off in Magalia. (Branch II): yeah because we have nothing in the town. (Foxtrot): If we could get some 

water tenders actively shuttling water with good hydrant systems in Magalia. One thing we’ll have to 

take into consideration is bringing fuel to the power house, need a couple hundred gallons by 

tomorrow. (Branch II): Copy. (Foxtrot): ok so I only have one water tender and I’m sure what you have 

up there but maybe we can work out some sort of a shuttle. (Branch II): I only have a couple. (Foxtrot): 

Copy, just let them know that all the hydrants in Magalia are hot. 

18:25:21: (B2112): Branch 4, B2112. If we could have the new division and 10 engines that are coming 

up here to just report directly up to Wilder Road community up at Wilder road and Zinfandel drive. 

18:29:22: (Branch 4): Division Kilo, Branch 4. Have your resources respond into the Wilder road and 

zinfandel Rd area and tie in with B2112. (Kilo): I copy that Wilder road and zinfandel, I’m just coming off 

99 onto 32 now. I believe we have 9150C ahead of me. 

18:34:16: (Branch II): Branch II. (Operations): I’ve talked to a (PID?) representative, they do have a 

generator running at the plant, they have two operators that are stranded there, they asked if they 

could have an engine check on them. There’s a pump station at forest service and Moore road by station 

35 run by natural gas. If we could get an engine into to them, we could get one of their people at the 

plant to look at that with them. 

18:35:07: (Branch 4): I’m here with division Hotel, we’ll get an engine in there. (Branch II): I copy all that 

traffic, sounds like we need to get that pumping station by Station 35 going. (Branch 4): If I can tie in 

with those guys at the water treatment plant, I talked to them earlier. (Branch II): Copy. 

18:36:22: (E933) Branch II, E933. 

18:38:15: (Branch II): E933, Branch II go ahead. (E933): Information if you’re having a fuel tender at 

station 35, you may want to send PG&E up the road, there’s a couple power poles up the road that are 

knocked down, that are blocking the road way. (Branch II): Operations or IC copy. (IC): request PG&E to 

Forest Service road going to 35 to clear the roads for fuel tenders and lunches. (IC): Affirm, here’s what I 

need, I need one engine to marry up with PG&E crews to put out poles so they can clear up roads. 

(Branch II): They’ll have to get up there and find an engine to do it if not they can get ahold of me or 

branch 4 and we’ll get them in there. (IC): there going to start on Skyway on the way up. (Branch II): 

Copy. 

18:40:03: (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. Just received a call from daughter and her father in-law at 

(Unreadable rest of transmission) 

18:41:08: (P2122) Division Golf, Prevention 2122. (Golf): Checking on your status. 

18:41:21: (P2122): good to go, north end of town, was able to pull a few people out of the valley ridge 

area. (Golf): I copy thank you, good work. 

18:42:16: (Hotel): branch II, Hotel. What was the location of the fuel tender going to be? 
18:42:30: (Branch II): I’d like to put at station 35. (Hotel): Copy. (Branch II): I’d like to get PG&E and clear 

that road, there were some lines near the road way. (Hotel): I’ve got an engine that’s about to run out of 

fuel, going to try to get them down to 35 and get fuel somehow. (Branch II): They might be able to 

siphon it out of there. They have no power and no way to run it. Had them run down to Chico to get 

fuel. 

18:44:56: (901) Hotel, 901. Turn those PG&E trucks around, they need to cut some wires down on forest 

service road to get to Station 35. (Hotel): Affirm, I’ll run down and get them. 

18:45:32: (P2122): Branch II, P2122. What were the numerics on Dean Road? (Branch II): 1909 (P2122): 

Copy, in the area. (WT45): Branch II, WT45. (Branch II): Branch II. (WT45): On Pence road, at Country 

Ranch, lines are down, there’s no way we can get to the water source. Pence road is currently closed. 

(Branch II): Copy, at Skyway and old skyway there’s a hydrant there so turn around and go in that 

direction. (Branch II): Operations, Branch II. 

18:46:33: (Operations): go ahead to operations. (Branch II): Lines down across pence road, lower end of 

it, below the hospital. Need PG&E to clear it so we can get water tenders up and down from the water 

source. (Operations): (unreadable) working that area. (Branch II): Copy. 

18:47:12: (Operations): PG&E is in route to Sta 35, to clear the powerlines so we can get folks in there. 

(Branch II): Copy. 

18:49:00: (Operations): Branch II, Operations. Are you still in need of water tenders. (Branch II): All I can 

get. (Operations): Copy, there headed your way. (Branch II): Copy they’ll be needed in division Golf 

number one priority and division hotel number two priority. 

18:50:13: (3200C): Oroville, 3200C. 

18:50:28: (3200C): Oroville 3200C I don’t know if anyone is aware, but between Neal road and the cut 

off to butte college, the fire is bumping highway 99. My recommendation is highway 99 hard closure. 

18:51:35: (Echo): Branch II, Echo. I’m heading back to the hospital. (Branch II): Copy, how’d it look. 

(Echo): So far so good (Unreadable remaining transmission). (Branch II): Copy. (Oroville): Branch II, 

Oroville. (Oroville): (unreadable) 2545 (Lake???) drive cross of Durham pence road butte college area. 

(Branch II): I believe that’s the college contingency area below me. 

18:55:26: (Branch II) Oroville, Branch II. I check the address on Dean, structure no longer standing, but 

there are no cars in the driveway. (Oroville): Oroville copies.

18:56:01: (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. Not sure if the (unreadable) but 3200C is in the area and said the 

fire was bumping highway 99 and Neal road area. They recommended a hard closure on 99. 

18:56:24: (Branch II): I copy. Operations, Branch II. (Operations): affirmative its already in process CHP’s 

been notified 99s being closed. (Branch II): IC, Branch II. Is that my area down there or do you have 

someone working that area? (IC): Its part of Butte College Contingency. Bill Reid’s, running it. (Branch II): 

I’m a little committed up here. 

18:57:27: (Operations): Golf, Operations. Can you use 6 water tenders? (Golf): Unit calling golf, repeat? 

(Operations): Golf, operations, can you use 6 water tenders? (Golf): Affirmative. 
18:57:58: (Operations): I’ll get you the identifiers. Division H, Operations.

18:59:15: (Branch II): Operations are you contacting Hotel? (Operations): Affirmative. (Branch II): Hotel, 

Branch II. (Hotel): Hotel. (Branch II): Operations had traffic for you. (Operations): Division Hotel, 

Operations. Can you use 5 water tenders. (Hotel): affirmative. I’ll take 2 of them to Skyway and clark. 

And the other 3 to Bille and skyway. 

19:05:35: (IC): B2411, IC. Have 2240 in staging, I’m going to send them your way to (??????) side of the 

road. (B2411): Affirmative, what I was coming to you for, couple of dozers. Fire has jumped highway 99 

approximately, 2-3 acres. It also jumped Durham Pentz road into that triangle and will being bumping 

highway 99 south of Durham Pentz road as well. (IC): got one dozer heading toward you, I will have 

them come up on Tac 26 or try 28. (B2411): It looks like quite a bit of resources, Ill direct them to 

probably come into staging. I got a dozer strike team, I’m going to have them take action on the spot 

access HWY 99. (IC): the only plan we got is to hold Durham pentz and 99 in this corner and then butte 

college back to clark road. That’s our goal for you and Bill Reid. 

19:10:15: (Golf) : Branch II, Golf. Just FYI, I’m going to have a couple engines go set up a pumping 

operation at the (??? Aquatic park) off Bushman road for water. 

19:11:22: (Branch 4): Branch II, Branch 4. (Transmission unreadable) (Branch II): There should be water 

in the lower part of Paradise, below Wagstaff. 

19:11:45: (Branch 4): Above Wagstaff. (Branch II): confirming water above or below Wagstaff? (Branch 

4): we should have water below Wagstaff throughout the town. (Branch II): Golf do you copy traffic.

19:14:43: (Oroville): Branch 2, Oroville. Homeowner at Cynthia Lane has small fire in the wall and 

needs help putting it out across from north point drive. (Branch II): Copy, Hotel did you copy? (Hotel): 

Negative. (Branch II): Oroville, repeat the address. (Oroville): Cynthia Lane, across from north point 

drive. 

19:16:09: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. I need animal control to Wagstaff and grant for 2 dogs with minor 

burns. (Branch II): Copy. Operations, did you copy. (Operations): Negative. (Branch II): Animal control at 

Wagstaff and Grant for dogs. 

19:16:47: (Operations): Animal control to Wagstaff and grant. (Branch II): affirmative. Hotel, Branch II.

19:17:03: (Hotel): Go ahead for hotel. (Branch II): Do you have an engine you can send up to 35 just 

before the driveway there’s a pole burning. PG&E needs help putting it out. (Hotel): I’ll see what I can 

do. (Branch Ii): 933 is around here somewhere, just don’t know where he is at. (Hotel): I got 4159 Alpha 

working up in that area. They were up at Skyway and Clark. I’ll see if I can get them to bump an engine 

down. (Branch II): They can put it out, if not, it’s going to go across forest service road and no going to 

be able to get in here.

19:18:59: (Hotel): Branch II, did you have an address on Cynthia? I can’t find it anywhere in my map. 

(Branch II): Oroville, Branch II, repeat the address on Cynthia. (Oroville): (Hotel): Hotel copies, 

trying to locate. 

19:20:01: (Branch II): Hotel, Branch II. We have an engine up here at 35 taking care of that pole. (Hotel): 

Copy. 
19:22:56: (Echo): Branch II, Echo. Any update on the fuel? (Branch II): I’m at 35 right now, it’s not here 

yet. (Echo): ok, is that where they’re going to be staging. (Branch II): Yeah eventually its going be here at 

35 with lunches, neither of them are here yet. (Echo): Ok, copy that. (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. Are you in 

a positon to check 1844 Dean Road?

19:23:37: (Branch II): I was on Dean earlier and all the houses are pretty much gone. (Hotel): Copy that, 

battalion 7 employee on Dean Road. (Branch II): Repeat the address. (Hotel): 1844 (Branch II): 

confirming 1844. (Hotel): affirm 1844 Dean road. (Branch II): Ok I’ll go up and confirm it. (D1105): 

Operations, D1105. 

19:24:26: (901): Branch II, 901 (Entire transmission unreadable) (Branch II): Copy. (Operations): D1105, 

operations. (D1105): Can you raise me the staging area manager, I need 2 strike teams of whatever he’s 

got for Durham – pence and Clark. It’s about to cross Clark, south of Durham-Pence. 

19:25:06: (Operations): Copy, D1105 you need two strike teams to durham-Pentz and clark. (D1105): It’s 

south on clark, and we’ll try to keep from crossing clark. (Operations): Copy and what tac net are you on.

(D1105): Assign me a tac, I don’t have one picked out, I’ve just been on command. (Command): Tac 28 

(D1105): CDF tac 28. 

19:27:45: (Kilo): Operations, Kilo. I realize were in short supply, but I’d like to put in the request for 2 

water tenders to support division Kilo. (Operations): We’ll put that on the request, low priority right 

now. We’ve got a lot of resource requests for the south side, but I’ll put it on the board. (Kilo): copy. 

19:29:00: (E964) College contingency, E964. Myself, E2185, PNF 31, and 2 crew buggies are headed out 

towards Williams or would you like butte college? (College Contingency): Affirm, we’ll set up around the 

drive of Butte College and we’ll protect the college. (E964): Copy. (College Contingency): The plan, when 

you get to Williams, want you to come down to Durham Pentz road to the west and support a firing op. 

(E964): Copy. All resources, or just myself?

19:29:58: (College Contingency): E964 do you copy? (E964): Affirmative, all resources that are with me 

or just myself? (College Contingency): is the crew buggies have the crew and ST leader and everything 

or are they on the clark road side. I believe everybody is with them. 

19:30:26: (E964): I believe everybody is with them. (College Contingency): All resources come down, 

where you see the fire hitting Durham - pence road. (E964): E964 copies. (E964): E2185 did you copy? 

19:32:20: (Branch II): IC or Operations, Branch II. Branch 4 and myself are with (PID?) up by station 35, 

that pumping station the pumps the lower part of paradise, runs off natural gas. I’m sure natural gas in 

this area is compromised, so they can’t start up backup generators. What they need is a portable 

generator, 3 phase, probably a bigger one through cat up here to run this system. Tanks going to be dry 

by tonight, probably going to be out of water again. 

19:33:10: (Operations): Copy. Are they going to work on getting that generator? (Branch II): He doesn’t 

have contact with his supervisors up here, both cell phone services are none existent. If you have 

contact down, there to relay that it’s up to you. (Operations): Copy, so they need a 3-phase generator, 

and then gas is intact or it isn’t? (Branch II): It runs off natural gas, and none of the generators start. The 

natural gas in this area is probably down. 
19:33:50: (Operations): Yeah gas has slowed down, that’s correct. (Branch II): yeah so they will need a 

backup generator to get water system up again. (Operations): I copy thanks. 

19:34:22: (B2411): Operations, B2411. 

19:34:30: (Operations): B2411, go for operations. (B2411): I need road closures; the fire has jumped 99 

to the west at Neal road. Making a hard run at the Oro Chico highway. If we can have LE come over shut 

down the Oro Chico highway from Neal road, the fire is going to impact in there. The road is still open. 

19:36:49: (Branch II): Operations, Branch II. 

19:37:05: (Branch II): Operations, Branch II. Do you have an ETA on fuel tender to 35? We have a bunch 

of engines that are critical. (Operations): My understanding was the fuel tender to station 35 was up in 

Battalion 4’s area and you guys were going to have him work his way down to 35, I have no ETA. 

19:39:50: (Branch II) Golf, Branch II. I tied in with PID and the water you’re getting on that lower section 

is all gravity fed out of the tank. It’s a million-gallon tank, once its dry you’re going to be out of water 

again, so take it easy if you can. (Golf): I don’t think there is anything left and what’s the ETA on that fuel 

tender? (Branch II): We don’t have one? (Golf): I copy. (Foxtrot): Branch II, division Foxtrot. I’m going to 

send a transport dozer and 2 strike team hand crews down clark, can they make it through from 

skyway? (Branch II): Affirm. (Foxtrot): I’m going to send them all the way down to butte college. (Branch 

II): I know through the town its clear, below that I couldn’t tell you. 

19:41:52: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel.

19:42:00: (Branch II): Branch II. (Hotel): vehicles and buses coming down the skyway, past Bille going 

down through Paradise. Do we know where they are coming from? (Branch II): No idea. (Hotel): I don’t 

know how they’re going to make it through downtown paradise. (Branch II): I wasn’t aware of any, they 

probably need to get over clark. (Hotel): Maybe they came off clark at the Kmart. There heading down 

the skyway. If you want to tell Golf, there coming his way, about 20 vehicles and, 3 buses. 

(Branch II): Golf did you copy. (Golf): yes, affirmative they should be fine. (Branch II): Is that tree clear 

down to lower? (Golf): Affirm, lines are cleared as well. (Branch II): Copy

19:43:21: (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. Received reports of a WT operator that did not check in, he’s at 

 Stilson canyon. The fire has jumped that area and is threatening multiple residences trapped, can’t 

get out. Is it Division branch or B2112 branch? (Branch II): Should be B2112. (Oroville): Identifier for that 

branch? (Branch II): I haven’t heard one. 

19:44:12: (Oroville): B2112, Oroville. 

19:44:22: (B2112): B2112. (Oroville): Multiple residences unable to evacuate Stilson Canyon Road. 

(B2112): Can you repeat, I didn’t copy. (Oroville): there’s a WT operator that did not check in and went 

to assist Stilson Canyon Road. Multiple residence calling in, needing assistance evacuating, fires

going through that area. (B2112): Stilson Canyon Road. Branch 4, B2112. 

19:45:36: (Division 1): Oroville, Engine 10, Chico division 1. (Oroville): Oroville. (Division 1): ETA back to 

the hospital? 

19:46:06: (Oroville): Chico Division 1, Oroville. Repeat. (Division 1): Oroville engine 10, ETA back to the 

hospital? (Oroville): Unknown. 
19:46:30: (Chi Div 1): Copy when you get a chance, call me cell. Forming as a task force. 

19:46:42: (B2112): Operations, B2112. 

19:46:53: (Operations): B2112, camp operations, go ahead. (B2112): I’m unable to get ahold of Branch 4 

but apparently, fire is impacting Stilson canyon area. 10 engines and division are committed up here on 

the Wilder road area. 

19:47:23: (Operations): If I get you 2 strike teams of charlies, can you facilitate.... Yeah were going to 

need you all night. (B2112): Yeah I’m going to start working my way down, I need to get with you on 

some intel as well for this Wilder road, there’s a good chance that it will come up out of there and across 

32 into the park area. (Operations): I will advise Chico, you ready copy numbers, I’ll have them report to 

Bruce Road and Stilson Canyon assigned to you. Ready to copy? 

19:48:19: (Operations): You’ll still utilize Tac 27, here’s your identifiers. 4208C, Standby need to check 

staging. (P2127): B2112, P2127. (B2112): B2112 (P2127): I’m down in Stilson canyon, trying to make 

access. The fire has not reached this location yet but I’ll give you a better update. (B2112): Copy, I’m on 

my way down Wilder.

19:52:08: (B2112): P2127, B2112. (P2127): The fire is making a strong push, down canyon towards the 

upper stilson canyon area. My understanding, talking to residences is that this place has not been 

evacuated, we do need LE, and to my understanding operations is sending you 2 strike teams. (B2112): 

yeah affirmative and were going to tie in, that might put you in that area with 10 engines. Break. 

Operations B2112. Copy that traffic about evacuations in Stilson canyon area, mandatory. 

19:52:55: (B2112): Operations, B2112. The stilson canyon area has not been evacuated, we’ll need to 

make that a priority. Making a hard push towards stilson canyon community, Mandatory evacuations. 

19:53:31: (Operations): In progress on both sides both city and county. 

19:53:58: (Branch 4): B2112, Branch 4 copies that traffic.

19:54:39: (B2112): P2127, B2112. There’s a task force, and an Alpha coming that way. TF 4208C, and 

9331 Alpha, there is 2 TF, 10 engines heading that way, I’m working my way that way. We’ll need to 

come up with a game plan, so evacuations are taking place right now through LE. (P2127): Copy, I’m 

advising residences also and I do have that WT Echo170. 

19:55:34: (B2112): I copy, do you have accountability for WT operator. (P2127): He is a resident of this 

area and he’s not leaving. (B2112): I’m going to lose you, I’m going to get down here to Wilder, Ill check 

back in at Stilson Canyon. 

19:56:02: (Branch II): Branch 4, branch 2. (Branch II): A couple hundred feet before you get to Clark on 

forest service there’s a tree that catface is going to burn through and will fall. E933 in there might be 

able to put it out. (Branch 4): copy (Branch II): It’s on the left side of the road just before you get to that 

structure on the corner of Clark and forest service.

19:57:28: (Branch II): Branch 4, Branch II. You got E933, behind station 35, I think they’ve got water. 

19:58:20: (Oroville): B2112, Oroville. (B2112): B2112 (Oroville): (Unreadable) (B2112): Negative, were 

tied in with Kilo, and we made positive contact with the missing WT operator. (Oroville): did you copy 
Chi E4 traffic. (B2112): Negative. (Oroville): Bruce road and 32 there’s 2 Lima strike teams Skyway and 

honeyrun lower end, unassigned.

19:59:35: (B2112): Oroville, B2112. I did not copy that traffic, something about a Lima down in the 

valley. (Oroville): (Unreadable) 2 Lime strike teams.

19:59:58: (B2112): B2112 copies, making my way down Wilder, turning back down to that area. 

20:00:40: (Oroville): B2112, Oroville. 2 OES strike teams, don’t know their identifiers, staged at honey 

run road, lower honey run, and skyway. (B2112): Copy, I don’t know which branch that falls into, I’ll 

have to check with operations. 

20:02:08: (B2112): Traffic for B2112. (CHI Div. 2): B2112, CHI Div. 2. Are you in charge of the Stilson 

Canyon division? (B2112): yeah I’m working my way that way from another area, repeat your identifier? 

(CHI Div 2): This is CHI div 2. (B2112): Yeah CHI Div. 2, I’m working ym way, still trying to get up to 

highway 32 from Wilder. It’s going to take me a little bit. (CHI Div. 2): Copy, I’ve got two engines coming 

down here right now, I’ve got CHI E4 and E5, were on Stilson Canyon were going to start helping PD with 

evacuations. It looks like it’s going to hit us sooner than later. (B2112): Copy, you got P2127 in there as 

well. 

20:03:02: (CHI Div. 2): Copy, do you have any engines heading this way? Just wondering if there might be 

any taskforces. (B2112): We have 10 engines, we’ve got an Alpha ST and a Charlie ST heading that way, 

they’re going to tie into Bruce road and lower Humboldt. I’ve got their identifiers, but they should be in

the area, I believe drive time from college. (CHI Div. 2): Copy, if your good with it have them meet me 

over on Humboldt off stilson canyon. (B2112): Copy, you’ll have to catch them at that intersection right 

there, I don’t have any contact with them right now.

20:03:54: (CHI Div. 2): Copy, can you confirm that intersection for me? 

20:04:02: (B2112): It will be TF 4208C and ST9331 Alpha and they’re going to meet at Bruce road and 

Humboldt. (CHI div. 2): TF 4208C and ST9331 Alpha. (B2112): Affirmative, and it will be CDF tac 27. (CHI 

Div. 2): Copy. 

20:05:51: (Ops): B2411, Night ops. (B2411): B2411 (Ops): I’m getting a report from regional CHP dispatch 

center at 413 Southgate at Hwy 99. (rest of transmission covered) (P2127): CHI Div. 2, P2127. (CHI Div. 

2): Go ahead (P2127): Switch to Tac 27. (CHI Div. 2): I’m trying to program it in my radio right now. 

(OPS): B2411, did you copy that traffic. 

20:06:43: (Ops): B2411, you need to try and get an engine over to 413 Southgate and Hwy 99, it’s the 

regional CHP (rest of transmission covered and unreadable).

20:07:08: B2411): Ops, B2411, you’ve been walked on again, but I copy try to get an engine to 413 

Southgate to the CHP office. (Ops): it’s a High priority. 

20:07:29: (CH20B): Ops, Chief 20B. (Ops): CH-20B, do you have needs for dozers, I’ve got 2 in staging. 

(CH20B): That’s affirm, I need dozers, water tenders and any additional engines. 

20:07:46: (Ops): Copy, and confirm your working on Tac 11. (CH-20B): Tac 12. (Ops): Tac 12 ok, I’ll get 

resources headed your way. (CH-20B): Copy and they’ll report to Clark road and Camelot. 
20:09:10: (Staging): Ops, Staging. (Ops): go for operations. (Staging): My cell phone is out of service, can 

you place the order by (???). 

20:09:35: (Ops): are you ready to copy numbers? (Staging): affirm (Ops): 2 Dozers, 3 WT, need to go to 

CH-20B, at clark and Camelot road. 

20:10:00: (Staging): Copy (Ops): we’ll need the identifiers. Also, can you get your cell phone back in 

service. (Staging): Affirm, I’m working on it. 

20:10:19: (staging): Ready to copy identifiers. (Rest of transmission unreadable) 

20:10:49: (Ops): We’ve got Plumas Dozer 1, missed the first dozer though. (Staging): Plumas Dozer 1, 

Private Dozer 999. (Ops): Ch-20B did you copy those resources. (CH-20B): Negative. (Ops): you’ve got 2 

dozers coming your way, one is private E999, the second is Plumas dozer 1 and then you have 3 private 

water tenders: E175, E174, E998. 

20:12:38: (Ops): Branch II, ops. You’re going to have to break away, I need someone to go down skyway 

and assess the threat to the neighborhood church, that is the evacuation center. We’ve got to make 

sure that does not get impacted by fire, we need significant lag time to move people out of there. 

(Branch II): Do you have an address, is it up in Paradise or is it lower. (Ops): Chico, gold dome off Notre 

Dame south of Chico. (Branch II): OK, I’m up on Wagstaff, I’ll head that direction. (Ops): we just need a 

good assessment of whether that needs to happen or not.

20:13:51: (Branch II): Hotel, Branch II. That address on Dean is a negative. (Hotel): Affirm, I think he 

already knows. I’m trying to get some of the (????) in place, I can’t get a hold of them. (Branch II): yeah 

there’s only a couple houses left on Dean. 

20:14:27: (B1618): Branch II, B1618. I’m on Pearson, I can head down skyway and do the assessment for 

the neighborhood church. (Branch II): What’s your identifier again? (B1618): B1618 (Branch II): IF you 

could check that I’d appreciate that. 

20:22:32: (Ch-20B): Ops, Ch-20B. I have the fuel tender that was going to be at the four corners here 

now, this isn’t going to be a good spot for him now. Where do you want him? (Ops): to the staging area 

at the college. 

20:22:58: (Hotel): Ops, Hotel. PG&E to 888 deer creek road of paradise, got powerlines (unreadable). 

(Ops): the address? (Hotel): 888 Deer Creek Road, in the Bille road area. 

20:23:25: (Hotel): 882 Deer creek road, to cut power lines for rescue.

20:23:50: (Kilo): Branch 4, Kilo. Place a request for agency dozers for division Kilo.

20:24:09: (Branch 4): Copy, 1 agency dozer for division Kilo, what’s the reporting location? 

20:24:30: (Branch 4): Kilo, Branch 4. (Kilo): Branch 4, Kilo, how do you copy. (Branch 4): scratchy but 

readable, try tone 5. (Kilo): affirm this is tone 5. (Branch 4): reporting location?

20:24:55: (Kilo): reporting location will be Wagner road and zinfandel. 
20:25:09: (College Staging): Operations, College staging. (Transmission unreadable) (Kilo): Branch4, Kilo. 

Reporting location will be Wilder road and zinfandel. (Foxtrot): Branch 4, foxtrot. Dozer 2544 that we 

had up here got sent down to college to work the fire at the north end of Oroville. 

20:35:55: (Branch 4): confirming it went down towards Oroville. (Foxtrot): affirmative, per the IC it went 

down to butte college, additionally, I have a firefighter with an eye laceration off ST 9250C. I could have 

the engine rendezvous with an ambulance down at butte college, what’s your preference.

20:26:26: (Branch 4): affirmative, you can send the engine down to butte college. (Foxtrot): copy, I’ll go 

direct to communications with a request for a medic unit, and I will have that engine transport the 

firefighter down to butte college. 

20:27:16: (Ops): Ch-20B, Ops

20:27:40: (Ch-20B): Ch-20B. (Ops): have a report from CHP that the fire is at Hwy 149 and Shippee, 

getting ready to cross 149, so if you can get in there and look at it and see what you can do. (Ch-20B): 

I’m on my way there now. Confirming that is west of clark. 

20:28:12: (Ops): west of hwy 70, east of hwy 99. 

20:29:44): (Branch 4): Ops, Branch 4. Request 1 agency dozer to division Kilo. Reporting location Wilder 

road and zinfandel road. 

20:31:48: (Foxtrot): Camp communications, Foxtrot. 

20:32:00: (Oroville): Foxtrot, Oroville. Camp communications will not be in service until tomorrow. We’ll 

maintain communications until tomorrow. (Foxtrot): Oroville, foxtrot. Requesting a medic unit to the 

staging unit at butte college for a firefighter with an eye laceration off ST 9250C. The engine identifier is 

E2562, there currently in route to that location. It will be a 26-year-old male, mild distress, took a (??) to 

the right eye. (Oroville): copy 

20:33:24: (Foxtrot): Oroville, foxtrot. Patient has been assessed, he’s going to be transported, can we 

arrange a liaison to meet him where ever he is being transported to. 

20:33:44: (Oroville): I’ll try to find someone to assign. What area of butte college specifically? (Foxtrot): 

I’m going to send the engine down to the staging area at butte college. 

20:37:57: (Staging): Ops, staging. (Ops): do we have any dozers in staging. (Staging): Negative. (Ops): (??) 

agency dozer and you should be getting one soon and we need to send them to Kilo, report location

Wilder and zinfandel. (Staging): copy, Division Kilo at Wilder and zinfandel. (ops): if your able to make 

that happen I just need the identifier. 

20:38:52: (B4314): Ops, B4314. I don’t know if you need an agency dozer or not or it can be a private, I 

have a private sitting over here at durham-pentz and pence that I can give you. (Ops): contact CH-20B 

and see what his needs are, he was requesting dozers. The fire is already over to hwy 99, were not going 

to use them but if the fire has not reached 99 try to push a line sideways from durham pentz. (B4314): 

Copy we’ll just hold onto the private over here. 

20:39:48: (hotel): Branch II, hotel: I got an address earlier its corrected. Its 1574 G???) Lane off cabernet, 

there’s an occupant there refusing to evacuate, tried to mitigate the threat but we need to log that 
address if anything comes up again. (Oroville): Branch4, Oroville. Are you able to assign someone to the 

back yard of (???) road and Little Buck Run. 

20:40:37: (CH-20B): Ops, CH-20B. The fire is at Openshaw. (Ops): fire is where? (CH-20B): at Openshaw 

and Shippee and 149, (Transmission unreadable). (Ops): south 149, correction north of 149. 

20:41:55: (Ops): If it crosses at Openshaw, we need to know, were going to need to start another 

evacuation of about 30,000. (CH-20B): Copy, and confirming I don’t have any other resources at staging 

that you can send over to me. (Ops): I will get into staging and see what we got. (Ch-20B): we’re looking 

holding hwy 70 all the way around back up to clark. I’m going to take all the resources that are engaged 

and were going to the road. (Ops): You’re going to take all your resources and attempt to hold 70 all way 

back around to clark. (CH020B): Correct. 

20:44:01: (9275G): Ops, 9275G. We were sent down from Magalia, myself and 9273G, both looking for 

work. (Ops): come down to Butte college and tie in with Ch-20B, he’ll put you to work. 

20:45:03: (9275G): Ch-20B, 9275G. (Ch-20B): 9275G, if you could report to Openshaw and Shippee cross 

of 149. (9275G): copy, in route, it will 9275G & 9273G. 

20:45:52: (Ops): Ch020B, Ops. At staging I’ve got 2 golfs, 3 MDF crews, 1 additional type 1 crew, 1 

Charlie, 1 Alpha, ambulances so that’s what I got for you. (Ch-20B): I’ll take the engines, and 2 additional 

crews. (Ops): you’ll get a strike team of crews, and you’ll get 3631C, 2809 Alpha, 9275G. (Ch-20B): Copy 

20:47:15: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. 9234G, I don’t have a need for them anymore on my division if you 

want to reassign them. (Branch II): affirm, send them to staging butte college. (Hotel): copy, they’ll pick 

up here shortly to butte college. (Branch II): Copy, operations, copy? (Ops): go for ops. (Branch II): 

division hotel has an extra golf, I’ll send them down to staging, do you have another assignment for 

them? (Ops): Copy, we’ll assign them from here. (Golf): Branch II, Golf. Are you ready to copy a large 

animal rescue? 

20:48:16: (Branch II): Go ahead. (Golf): 2 horses around black olive (Transmission unreadable) (Branch 

II): 2 horses on black olive? (Golf): affirmative, in front of the PD station. (Branch II): Copy, I’ll relay. 

(CH020B): Ops, CH-20B. I’ve got a ST 5812 Alpha that’s in route to check in, can I pull them off. (Ops): 

5812 Alpha, do you still want the other resources? (CH-20B): For now, I’ll get them back to you if we can 

hold 149. (Ops): That’s a high priority. 

20:50:48: (Foxtrot) Branch 4, Foxtrot. Can we have an engine check Perry road at Little Buck, apparently 

fire in the backyard. (Branch 4): What’s the location? Foxtrot: Perry cross of Little Buck. (Branch 4): what 

area are we looking at? (Foxtrot): East side of skyway, above Dogtown road. (Branch 4): copy.

20:51:50: (Branch II): go ahead (Hotel): Request for large animal rescue for a horse at 899 Lucy John. 

20:52:35: (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. Did you copy request for large animal rescue?

20:55:21: (B1618): Branch II, B1618. (Branch II): Go ahead (B1618): That last detail has been complete 

and relayed to IC. (Branch II): Copy (Hotel): Branch II, Operations, Hotel. With large animal rescue 

request. 
20:59:59: (Kilo): Branch 4, Kilo. For planning purposes, the fire has moved onto the top of Doe Mill ridge 

here, its making a hard push through this Buzztail – Wilder subdivision. Were probably going to looking 

at highway 32 sooner than later. 

21:00:29: (D2103): Branch 4, D2103. Your location? (Branch 4): Skyway, west down to lookout point. 

(D2103): Copy, I’m in Magalia, I’ll get ahold of Foxtrot. 

21:01:15: (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. Did I understand that hwy 32 is going to be compromised to the north? 

(Branch 4): From division Kilo the fire is pushing through Wilder and Santos Ranch area and we will be 

looking at highway 32. (Ops): if you can keep me (???) on that, we’ll start allocating any resources we 

can, we got a few more coming in and we’ll start sending stuff that way, but I need to know if that’s 

going to be compromised. (Branch 4): I’m heading out of paradise and heading 32. 

21:02:18: (B2112): Ops, B2112. I’m over on the 32 side, you will have an impact to highway 32. There 

will be a need to get evacuation orders or at least a warning into canyon oaks subdivision in the City of 

Chico. Also, the wind has picked up tremendously in the last 20-30 minutes here and is making a hard 

push from the east, directly over hwy 32 kind of towards the burn scar of the Stoney incident. I do not 

think we have enough resources for the distance that needs to be covered currently assigned over here, 

due to reflex time.

21:03:17: (Ops): I will go ahead and get an evacuation warning, should I go with a warning now or an 

order at this point if you don’t think we’re going to hold it, we’ll make an order. (B2112): Were going to 

go up and get a little higher on hwy 32 and look back down into that Buzztail community, I would say for 

hwy 32 and Forest Ranch community, Evacuation order from Platt Mountain Road to the City of Chico. 

Make that an order, all the way up to Platt Mountain Road and that will cover the canyon to Centerville 

canyon back to the Nimshew Road area. That will cover the fire coming this way from there as well. I 

believe for the Canyon oaks it will bump into that scar, were getting pretty good gusts in the 30-40 mph 

range, so you might as well make that an order for Canyon Oaks as well. (Ops): I believe that has already 

happened, but ill confirm. 

21:05:37: (Oroville): Branch 4, Oroville. BCSO called, the fire is making a hard run towards the 

subdivision in Magalia, there evacuating. 

21:06:35: (Ops): Go ahead. (Branch 4): The fire is making some runs in Magalia, Skyway and Magalia. 

21:07:01: (Branch 4): Ops, Branch 4. Just notification the fire is making some runs into Magalia into the 

paradise pines area. (Ops): Magalia, Paradise Pines area. (Hotel): Branch 4, Hotel. Do you need myself or 

any resources from skyway? (Branch 4): affirmative, tie in with division foxtrot, you have some resources 

up in there too. (Hotel): Copy, Foxtrot, Hotel. Do you have any needs up in the Magalia area? 

21:07:50: (Juliet): Branch 4, Juliet. I had Honey run to Centerville, that’s all been impacted and weren’t 

able to save very much (Transmission unreadable). (Branch 4): That was unreadable confirm your 

coming up with a plan? 

21:08:32: (Juliet): Branch 4, Juliet. Honeyrun canyon and Centerville we’ve lost everything. We’ve come 

out to skyway and were working on a plan from Potter and skyway. (Branch 4): copy 

21:09:51: (Ch-20B): OPs, 20B. We need to evacuate everything to the north of hwy 70 and 149. (Ops): All 

the area, repeat the location. (20B): North of hwy 70, down 149 to 99. (Ops): north of 70, 149, and 99 
and that is off clark? (20B): it’s going to be everything off Clark and Pentz on down to where the fire is at 

the 149 and 99. (Ops): I believe your saying is from Durham Pentz and Clark all the way south a hwy 70 

and 149. (20B0: Yes, Pentz road all the way down 149, to hwy 70. (20B): affirm. 

21:12:31: (Ops): 20B, Ops. SO believes the area your talking about has been done for some time. Are you 

talking about from the college to the South, West of Clark? 

21:13:04: (20B): All the area between 149 and the college, to (Unreadable). (Ops): SO is saying that 

should have been done 4 hours ago. (20B): Copy. 

21:13:50: (Foxtrot): Branch 4, Foxtrot. They’re going to go (???) Magalia (???). The fire is still down in the 

drainage that we talked about earlier. (???) its backing into the wind, (???). (Branch 4): It was a single 

report from the command center that SO was evacuating there. (Foxtrot): I don’t know if there is 

anyone evacuations in place currently. 

21:19:02: (Ops): B4314, Ops Do you have an engine you can shake lose, and send them to 

road, cross of (???) Valley. Retired CAL FIRE Battalion Chief trying to defend his house, we could use 

some assistance. (B4314): Standby, let me get that information from you one more time. (Ops): 

off Messilla Valley which you’re going to go up Pentz, and Messilla valley up to the north. 

21:21:20: (Oroville): Foxtrot, Oroville. Per Butte Medics, Firefighter with eye injury was not transported. 

(Foxtrot): Copy. (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. The fuel tender, do you still want them to go to 35? 

(Branch II): Affirm, we need to expedite, were out of fuel. (Oroville): there in route to 35, there on lower 

skyway. 

21:30:02: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. Your geographical boundaries will be from the airport to the heel. Tony 

Brownell will have the upper portion from the airport up.

21:39:06: (Ops): CH-20B, Ops. (CH-20B): Any additional dozers, in staging. (Ops): I do have 1 private WT.

21:40:53: (B2411): Ops, B2411. Dozers are actively working both sides from the skyway down to 99. 

From 99, to the skyway we should have that cutoff and done here within the next hour. They are going 

direct with the Charlies and we should have that all buttoned up and the fire will essentially be south of 

butte creek. (Ops): do you have need for a WT? (B2411): I’ll take them, reporting location will be 99 and 

Estates drive. Contact with be 9460C, CDF Tac 28. 

21:57:23: (9275G): 20B, 9275G. Back over at Openshaw, got kind of a plan I’d like to run past you. (20B): 

where are you right now? (9275G): Openshaw, just up from the intersection, 149 and openshaw. 

(9275G): thought I heard a second dozer coming this way. (20B): That’s affirmative. 

22:02:25: (B2112): Branch 4, B2112. I know you are probably aware, fire has moved up out of Centerville 

correction Stilson, coming up over old Humboldt road getting ready to get on to hwy 32 at the lower end 

by the powerlines. (Branch 4): copy. 

22:03:17: (B4314): Ops, B4314. 

22:03:34: (Ops): traffic for Ops go ahead. (B4314): contacted individual at space , 

good shape right now, fire is still holding at the top of the ridge. We can get the tractors around the (??) 

of the slope, put a line, fire it, so it won’t be an issue. 
22:06:05: (Branch 4): Ops, Branch 4. The fire is pushing down to lower Humboldt road near hwy 32 in 

the Yosemite drive area, so hwy 32 is being impacted. (Ops): copy, hwy 32 is being impacted. I have a 

few resources, a WT, some dozers here at staging, can you use any of that? 

22:06:45: (Branch 4): Negative, priority would be engines. (Ops): We’ve shut the engines off for 

tomorrow so we have a day shift. We’re going to have WT and dozers for the night, if you have any uses 

for that equipment let me know. 

22:11:10: (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. Received a call from a spouse calling about her husband, who 

went back to the residence at lane. She hasn’t heard back from him, and having smoke 

inhalation and vehicle is on fire, unknown description of vehicle and cell phone dead. (Branch II): copy 

we’ll try and locate. (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. Is that going to be Golf or Hotel? (Branch II): it’s going to be 

golf.

22:17:59: (B2112): Branch 4, B2112.

22:18:07: (B2112): Has dozer company come out of staging?

22:18:18: (B2112): Might try to get a couple dozers and WT heading this direction. Lots of heavy 

material, things kind of hung up on top right now, I know reflex time will be a bunch but maybe we can 

get a couple of dozers here and push some circles around these things. 

22:18:41: (B2112): I think it flattens out on Humboldt road, this is burning there’s a bunch of

encampments in here, homeless encampments on top, before it hits that little Chinese rock wall, so if 

we can keep it in check between hwy 32 and old Humboldt road that might help. 

22:19:14: (Branch 4): I copy, I’ll request 2 dozers and 2 water tenders. (B2112): Yeah there just going to 

scramble around in this area in here and just try to keep it from less impact, hwy 32.

22:22:13: (Branch 4): Ops, Branch 4, Resource request for 2 dozers, 2 WT to hwy 32 and Humboldt road. 

22:22:42: (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. Who is the contact for the 2 dozers and 2 WT to hwy 32 and Humboldt? 

(Branch 4): division Kilo, CDF Tac 27. 

22:22:59: (Ops): I’ll see what we have in route to you. (Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. Request relay to LE to 

Batermine? Rd, for some possible looting taking place. 

22:24:20: (CH-20B): Ops, 20B. (???) hitting 149 hard but we are getting embers across the highway, no 

spots yet. I have not had 3631C or 2809 Alpha check in with me. 

22:24:46: (Ops): Repeat the ones that have no checked in with you. (20B): 3631C and 2809 Alpha. (Ops): 

3631C, 2809 Alpha have no checked in, ok. And what is the status of the embers, where is that at? (20B): 

149 and openshaw, high probability of spots across 149, we need to begin the evacuations. (Ops): Per 

Chief Messina that has all been evacuated except for Thermalito Proper. (20B): Copy as long as you 

know what we’ve got, I need those resources ASAP. 

22:31:21: (Oroville): Foxtrot, Oroville. Is hwy 99 and Neal road your division? (Foxtrot): Negative. 

(Oroville): Do you know who’s it is? (Foxtrot): I do not, check with branch II. (Oroville): Branch II, 

Oroville. (Getting (??) calls there’s a pole with lines down in the area hwy 99, Neal road. (Unreadable 

transmission) 
22:32:34: (Branch II): 99 and neal road is not my area, in believe that’s butte college contingency area 

and that welfare check on Edgewood, we contacted that person, there fine. (Oroville): Copy. Break. 

College contingency, Oroville. (Unreadable transmission). 

22:37:56: (hotel): Branch II, hotel. I got F2191 who’s been working around up here, do you have a need 

for him? (Branch II): Not at this point. (Hotel): (??) go to briefing in the morning? (Branch II): Affirm. 

22:39:23: (D2103): Hotel, D2103. 

22:39:31: (Hotel): go ahead for hotel. (D2103): Everything on that street I checked for you has been 

destroyed. 

22:41:00: (9220C): Hotel, 9220C. Just for accountability I have all 5 of my engines, down off Valleyview 

drive, quite a few homes that are still saving. (Hotel): copy, thanks for the update. Still got the WT 

staged at Bille and clark, there all there if you need. (9220C): we’re able to get water out of these 

hydrants down here, were good right now. 

22:45:57: (Ops): U2154, Ops. 

22:46:13: (U2154): Go ahead. (Ops): Just checking on your status. (U2154): we’re sitting here at the 

Kmart parking lot, we’re going to take 1 more load of buses down to the neighborhood church and after 

that I’m just going to stage them at Raley’s, just in case we need to evacuate the Forest Ranch area, or if 

you want me to release all of them I can do that to. (Ops): I’ll to SO standby. 

22:48:24: (Kilo): Operations, go for Kilo. (Ops): You have 9160L, WT 188, WT192, in route to 32 and 

Humboldt.

22:49:44: (Ops): U2154, Ops. (Ops): Was your plan to bring all the buses back up to the Raley’s parking 

lot and stage them there. 

22:50:09: (U2154): Your badly broken, I heard you say am I going to bring the buses to the Raley’s 

parking a lot, if that was your question, that is affirmative. We don’t have any more people at the Kmart 

parking to evacuate. (Ops): Per the SO, they would like the buses to come back up, stage with you, 

because Id imagine we’d have more tricklers move down, so come back and stage with you until there 

needed.

22:50:49: (U2154): Unable to copy you John, I’ll try to reach you by phone. 

22:51:25: (Golf): Branch II, Golf.

22:51:37: (Branch II): Branch II. (Golf): yeah if we could get a utility crew to 5423, Skyway next to the 

Paradise inn. Take the lines down that’s blocking about half dozen homes where we need to get back in 

to defend. 

22:52:28: (Branch II): IC or Ops, Branch II. (Ops): Ops. (Branch II): Did you copy the request for utility to 

come to Skyway to clear a line. (Ops): Do you have an address or just skyway? (Branch II): 5423 Skyway. 

22:53:21: (Ops): Branch II, Utility company to 5423 Skyway. Do we have a contact for the PG&E 

representative? (Branch II): Yeah, division golf. 
22:56:24: (B2411): Branch 4, B2411. Honey run road and the skyway at the bottom intersection, are 

close, can I face to face with you? (Branch 4): Affirmative, I’m at skyway and bruce getting fuel. 

22:56:55: (B2411): Copy, I’ll stay here if you want to come up and meet with me .

22:58:51: (Hotel): Branch II, hotel. Relay for animal control, are you ready to copy? (Branch II): 

Affirmative (Hotel): We got a dog, brought it to station 35, it’s in the tool room in the apparatus bay. It 

came from 113 Point west drive. That’s where the ST rescued it. (Branch II): Copy, I’ll relay it. 

23:00:44: (College contingency): Ops, College contingency. 2 power poles down with lines, on durham 

pentz road, just east of clark road. Requesting PG&E, it’s definitely a road hazard. (Ops): Copy that, there 

going to come out of Chico, I’ll make a request and get them in there. So its on durham pentz or clark? 

(Contingency): Durham Pentz, east of clark. (Ops): I’ll get PG&E in route. 

23:05:42: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. Information brief at 0600 Silver dollar fairgrounds. (Branch I): copy

23:06:11: (Ops): Branch II, Ops. Did you copy that traffic, briefing at 0600 silver dollar fairground?

23:10:19: (E2161): Branch I, E2161. The winds are down here at the bottom and its making some pretty 

good pushes, still hung up in rocks below us. (Unreadable) So were out ahead of it and follow it as it 

goes down the canyon. (Branch I): I copy. So far besides the one slop over towards the river, everything 

is holding above hwy 70 correct? (E2161): (Unreadable) E2161, E2176, WT64 are all together 

(Unreadable). (Branch I): Branch I.

23:18:27: (Branch II): U44, Branch II. Do you have any engines near Cory Canyon? 

23:18:44: (U44): is that off middle libbee or south libbee? (Branch II): I think it’s down by Butte College? 

(U44): (Unreadable) (Branch II): Jeff Gonzales just called me his dad’s house has a little fire in the corner 

and he needs an engine ASAP. (U44): What’s the address? (Branch II): road. 

23:19:17: (College contingency): Branch II, Contingency. I caught a little piece of that traffic, what was 

the traffic about Gonzales house? (Branch II): His dad’s house is Road. It has fire in the 

one corner. (Contingency): I copy I’ll send an engine up there. 

23:23:32: (Foxtrot): Branch 4, Foxtrot. 

23:23:49: (Branch 4): Branch 4. (Foxtrot): I got a spot fire, way out in front of the main fire, it’s going to 

impact coudelinc road here probably a mile up from the intersection of coudelinc and skyway. I’d like to 

get 3 ST of engines up this way or whatever I can get. (Branch 4): is the spot fire on the east or west side 

of coudelinc? (Foxtrot: Spot fire is going to be on the eastside of coudelinc but it’s going to impact 

coudelinc here very shortly, but its below dropping into the west branch, just west of Murphy’s (??). 

(Branch 4): Copy.

23:24:47: (Branch 4): Branch II, branch 4. Do you have any ST of engines that could be freed up to go 

toward coudelinc road to Foxtrot? (Branch II): I think Echo might have some extra resources. Break. 

Echo, Branch II. 

23:25:29: Branch 4, Branch 2. Try to get ahold of Echo on command, I can’t get him. 
23:27:30: (Echo): Branch II, Echo. Did you have traffic? (Branch II): Affirm, Branch 4 needs some 

equipment up on coudelinc, can you spare some? (Echo): affirmative. Let me get some together, I’ll let 

you know what it is. (Branch II): Copy, go directly to branch 4 and let him know. (Echo): Copy. (Branch I): 

Branch II, Branch I. Do you have any engines available, we have several structures still intact just being 

threatened at this time, Bille road and Lancaster.

23:28:23: (Branch II): Yeah, division Hotel might have some resources in the area. (Branch I): Copy. 

(Branch I): Hotel, Branch I. (Hotel): I copy, I’ll see what I can get over, I got engines all spread out 

through Bille, Wagstaff and Oak. So Bille and what? (Branch I): Lancaster. (Hotel): Copy that’s west side 

of skyway or east. (Branch I): East side. East of clark road. (Hotel): I copy, I’ll see what I can get over 

there. 

23:30:04: (Echo): Branch 4, Echo.

23:30:11: (Branch 4): Branch 4. (Echo): Branch II advised that you need some engines, I have 9231C that 

I can give you. Do you have a reporting location? 

23:30:32: (Branch 4): Echo, Branch 4, affirmative. Have them contact division Foxtrot at skyway and 

coudelinc. (Echo): What’s the tacnet. (Branch 4): VFIRE 26. 

23:31:57: (Branch 4): Foxtrot, Branch 4. (Foxtrot): go for Foxtrot. (division 4): ST 9231C is in route to 

skyway and coudelinc, they will contact you on VFIRE 26. (Foxtrot): Ok, repeat the identifier. (Branch 4): 

ST9231C (Foxtrot): Copy. 

23:37:03: (Foxtrot): Branch 4, Foxtrot. (Branch 4): Branch 4. (Foxtrot): I want to confirm there is a 

mandatory evacuation for coudelinc road north and I’d also like to request LE to come out here to 

double check to make sure everyone has been evacuated. We have fire about a mile up from the 

intersection of skyway and coudelinc, well established spot fire way out side of the main fire just below 

several houses, so I don’t think we’re going to be able to hold coudelinc road once it gets to the top.

23:39:24: (Ops): Branch 4, Operations. 

23:39:31: (Branch 4): Ops, branch 4. I’d like to confirm the evacuation status on coudelinc road, 

confirming that it is mandatory evacuations and additionally Foxtrot is requesting LE to insure that

everyone has been evacuated. There is a well-established spot fire on coudelinc road well outside the 

main fire, about a mile north of skyway and coudelinc. (Ops): repeat that last part. (Branch 4): There is a 

well-established spot fire to the east of coudelinc road, north of the main part of the fire, approximetly 

one mile north of skyway and coudelinc road, we’re attempting to hold coudelinc road but unsure we’ll 

be able to with the resources we have. (Ops): and the area you want to confirm is evacuated is the 

coudalinc area. (Branch 4): affirmative. Coudelinc road and north Magalia. 

23:40:54: (Ops): will that be north coudelinc zone or south. (Branch 4): South Coudelinc. (Ops): the south 

coudelinc has been mandatory evacuations. (Branch 4): I copy. 
23:41:21: (Branch 4): Foxtrot, Branch 4. (Foxtrot): go ahead. (Branch 4): The evacuation status for lower 

coudelinc is confirmed to be Mandatory. (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. Do you still require LE to that area? 

(Branch 4): Affirmative. Division Foxtrot is requesting. (Ops): I’m up here with Liaison. (Branch 4): Copy. 

23:43:13: (Branch 4): Kilo, Branch 4. 

23:43:25: (Kilo): Branch 4, go for Kilo. (Branch 4): Kilo, I met with division Juliet, they are working dozers 

north from honey run road, east of Bruce road. It’s working north toward hwy 32, about 2 miles of line 

before they get to Humboldt road. There working your way. 

23:43:57: (Kilo): Kilo copies. I just got my Lima ST in here and were going to start to tie in with them, so 

they should meet in the middle. (Branch 4): I copy, there about 2 miles out. 

23:44:32: (Hotel): Branch 4, hotel. (Branch 4): Branch 4. (hotel): I’ve got 9120C, can you use them? 

(Branch 4): Affirmative, have them go up to Coudelinc and skyway and contact them on VFIRE 26. 

(Hotel): Copy. 

23:45:10: (Branch 4): Foxtrot, Branch 4. Did you copy that traffic? (Foxtrot): Yes I did, I didn’t catch the 

Identifier though. (Branch 4): 9120C (Foxtrot): 9122C? (Branch 4): Negative, 9120C. (Foxtrot): Copy. 

23:46:48: (Kilo): Branch 4, Kilo. 

23:46:58: (Kilo): The Lima I have here currently, will work from Humboldt into stilson canyon and should 

hopefully tie into Juliet dozers. I’d like to request 1 additional Lima (Unreadable).

23:47:17: (Branch 4): Branch 4 copies. 

23:48:50: (Kilo): Branch 4, division Kilo. Did you copy my last traffic? (Branch 4): Affirmative for 2 dozers, 

what would be the reporting location? 

23:49:04: (Kilo): hwy 32 and Humboldt. Additionally, ST9150C, on my division is going to clean up the 

black here along Humboldt so our black will run up Humboldt road, and I’d like to push it to the east, 

hopefully on that gate 5 road. (Branch 4): copy.

23:50:54: (Branch 4): B2411, Branch 4. (B2411): B2411. (Branch 4): when you have 2 extra dozers, I 

could use them on hwy 32 and Santos Ranch. (B2411): Copy, and the contact. (Branch 4): Contact the 

division kilo, and correction on the reporting location hwy 32 and Humboldt. (B2411): I copy and the tac 

frequencies. (Branch 4): CDF Tac 27. 

23:51:45: (B2411): I copy, when they get loaded up I’ll send them that way.

23:52:08: (Hotel): Ops, Hotel. If you could pass onto B2118, station 82 is still good. (Ops): Thank you. 

23:52:29: (Branch I): Hotel, Branch I. I’d like to meet with you, can we meet at Pearson and Pentz road. 

(Hotel): Affirm, I’m at 82 now, I’m making my way over there, I’ve got 7 or 8 engines going into 

Lancaster right now, we should be able to pick everything up in there. (Branch I): I copy. (Hotel): Trying 

to work into all the skid area roads just have all the powerlines down so were cutting are way through all 

that. (Branch I): Affirmative. Yeah, I’ll face to face with you Pentz and Pearson.

23:57:16: (Ops): Branch I, Ops.
23:57:28: (Branch I): Ops, Branch I. Go ahead. (Ops): I have currently in staging, 3 golf ST, couple of NDF 

crews, and a whole handful of bulldozers and 1 alpha ST. Can you use any of that? (Branch I): Ops, 

Branch I, let me tie in with division Echo and we’ll come up with a game plan and get back to you. (Ops): 

Branch 4, Ops. (Branch 4): Branch 4. (Ops): I have a number of golf, ST alpha, and a whole (??) of dozers 

in staging. Can you use any of that? (Branch 4): I’ll have to tie in with division and see what they need.

23:59:49: (unreadable), operations on command. (Ops): unit for operations, standby. 

00:03:22: (Branch 4): Juliet, Branch 4. 

00:04:04: (Branch 4): Juliet, Branch 4. 

00:06:23: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. (Branch I): Ops, branch I, go ahead. (Ops): Most of your resources are 

going to be double shifted tomorrow, so were going to need to lay them down and rest them, wherever 

you can. (Branch I): Branch I. (Oroville): College contingency, Oroville. 

00.07:28: (Oroville): College Contingency, Oroville. Received a report from BCSO Sergeant, they came 

across a spot, along Oro Chico hwy in front of old durham wood and they will remain in the area until 

someone arrives. (Contingency): Confirming hwy 99 at the oro chico hwy. (Oroville): they said it’s on oro 

chico hwy and old durham wood, 1156 Oro Chico hwy.

00:08:20: (Contingency): 1156 Oro Chico hwy. (Oroville): Correct. 

00:10:23: (Branch I): Division Echo or ST 9254G, Branch I. 

00:11:23: (College Contingency): B2411, contingency. 9441C is headed your way. (B2411): I’ll be driving 

time from skyway and Spanish garden. 

00:12:47: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. (unreadable) that alpha strike team. (Branch I): Repeat. (Ops): 

(unreadable) alpha strike team. (Branch I): Yeah your looking for an Alpha Strike team? Is that what 

you’re saying? (Ops): I have an Alpha ST available. (Branch I): Copy. I’m still trying to get my bearings in 

here with division Echo. Confirming that was ST 9254G on Division Echo, CDF Tac 12. (Ops): Give me a 

minute. 

00:13:56: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. According to this 9254G was in division Echo on CDF Tac 12. (Branch I): I 

copy. You can have the alpha ST, report to Lime Saddle and come up on CDF tac 12, Lime Saddle and 

Pentz Road. (Ops): Lime Saddle, Pentz CDF tac 12. (Branch I): There Identifier? (Ops): 4235 Alpha. 

(Branch I): Copy 4235 Alpha. 

00:20:42: (Ops): Branch II, Ops. Be advised that most of the resources are going to end of double 

shifting, so we need to take every opportunity to rest them as much as we can. (Branch II): Copy, if you 

can, get some lunches up here, still no delivery to 35. (Ops): I was told there were 400 delivered to 35. 

(Hotel): Branch II, Hotel. There in the app bay. (Branch II): Copy that. (Hotel): So your location?

00:21:42: (Branch II): Hotel, branch II. Going back to 35. (Hotel): I’ll meet you there. 

00:21:53: (Ops): Branch II, Ops, I just sent you a text regarding structure loss, if you could check that for 

me. (Branch II): Yeah, I’ll try to get into cell service shortly. 

00:22:15: (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. 
00:22:22: (Branch 4): Branch 4. (Ops): Be advised most resources will be double shift, so take every 

advantage and opportunity to rest them as much as possible. (Branch 4): Branch 4 copies. (Ops): Branch 

4, if you have a chance, could you place a cell phone call to my cell. 

00:22:53: (Branch 4): Affirmative. (Ops): (Branch 4): Copy.

00:27:24: (E2161): branch I, E2161

00:27:30: (Branch I): E2161, Branch I, go ahead. (E2161): well established below hwy 70, about a mile, 

let’s call it 2 miles below station 36 towards pulga. That was our trigger point to get back to station 36, 

so that’s where were heading, we triaged 1 home on the way down to check this, its viable but were 

heading back up. (Branch I): copy. Break. Operations, Branch I. Copy that traffic? 

00:28:46: (Ops): Ops, Branch I. 

00:28:55: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. (Branch I): You copy that traffic from E2161. (Branch I): Fire is well 

established from pulga bridge, feather river side, so it would be the south side of hwy 70 and its making 

a run towards station 36. It’s going to impact Yankee Hill at some point. (E2161): Branch I, its much 

closer than that, it’s about 2 miles below station 36 towards pulga.

00:29:40: (Branch I): Ops, did you copy that. (Ops): It’s on the south side of 70 and so it’s going to make 

a run toward station 36. (Branch I): That’s affirmative, and it could impact the Yankee Hill area. (Ops): 

(Unreadable) Yankee Hill, and that will be an uphill run from the river, running kind of northwest. 

(Branch I): That’s affirmative. Significant upslope run, towards the station, that intersection right there 

(unreadable). (Ops): Copy, I’ll pass that on, thank you. 

00:30:39: (D2104): Ops, D2104 copies threat to station 36. 

00:31:28: (B2411): College contingency, B2411. 41C units are at scene, they can handle, no spot fire just 

a pile in that (??) wood facility CAL FIRE. (Contingency): when you get done with them just send them 

back to staging. 

00:32:00: (B2411): would you be ok if we have them stage out here at 99 and this area in case 

something pops up again. I got everybody up to the north end working the skyway. 

00:32:13: (College Contingency): Affirmative, that’s fine. We just need to get everyone some rest, it 

sounds like everyone is getting double shifted. (B2411): Copy. 

00:37:35: (Foxtrot): Branch 4, Foxtrot. Update, fire has crossed Coudelinc, from approximately a mile 

and a half up from the intersection of Coudelinc and skyway to Winchester. It’s well established, burning 

with the wind. What we discussed earlier determines the direction its headed that’s our B option. 

00:38:05: (Branch 4): I copy, your scratchy. The fire crossed coudelinc at Winchester and its burning 

which direction? 

00:38:18: (Foxtrot): Affirmative. 

00:38:27: (Branch 4): Is it burning down towards Magalia reservoir? 

00:38:37: (Foxtrot): Its burning in the direction of Magalia reservoir. 
00:38:48: (Ops): Branch II, Ops. 

00:38:54: (Branch II): Branch II. (Ops): Branch II, Ops. Can you use our company crews to start clearing 

lines in the skyway area and up in there? If you have the opportunity and its safe, I’d like to try to get 

some crews up there and start clearing lines so we have some access for tomorrow. (Branch II): Yeah 

most of the roads up here, the main roads are looking ok right now, there’s a couple spots they could 

work on. Mainly the side roads, Bille, Elliot, (????) paradise need to be cleaned up. (Ops): I could get 

some power crews up there and them direct to you. (Branch II): (?????), find plenty of work. (Ops): I got 

some power crews sitting with me that I’ll send up that way. (Branch II): (???) (Ops): I’ll get them 

working. 

00:40:21: (Ops): Ops. (Branch II): Just clarification on crews and double shifting, is that for divisions 

also? (Ops): we are going to end up having a few divisions that will need to double shift. We’ve got some 

overhead available but I don’t know if we have enough to trade everyone out. (Branch II): Copy that 

we’ll prepare for it then. 

00:40:58: (Delta): Branch I, Delta. Just preplanning with this fire that’s established on the south side of 

70, I don’t know if we have any stuff in staging, dozer primarily that we can get sent up this way and 

start getting this ready for dozer lines going off the south side of 70. (Branch I): (???)

00:41:41: (Branch I): Delta, Branch I. (????), control lines on the south side of 70. (Delta): I’m not sure 

which one were going to use yet, but if we have resources I’d like to start them coming this way. (Branch 

I): Copy. (Branch I): Ops, Branch I. 

00:47:39: (Juliet): Branch 4, Juliet. Do you have any PG&E crews that can help us get some of these lines 

along honeyrun takin care of so we can go back in there to access some of your crews. 

00:49:10: (Branch 4): Ops, Branch 4. 

00:49:17: (Ops): Traffic for operations. (Branch 4): I’d like to request PG&E crew to clear powerlines to 

honeyrun road, from skyway up towards Centerville. (Ops): Clear powerlines to skyway road, Centerville 

to honeyrun. (Branch 4): Yeah on honeyrun road, skyway to Centerville. Additionally an update in the 

Magalia area, fire has crossed that Coudelinc road and is burning to the west in towards Magalia 

reservoir area, which then can impact the eastern side of paradise pines, Magalia. (Ops): Yeah just keep 

re allocating your resources around to your areas of greatest need. We have no more resources to send

out. (Branch 4): branch 4. (Branch I): Ops, Branch I.

00:50:32: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. (Branch I): Yeah do we still have dozers available? (Ops): Probably 8-109 

of them. (Branch I): copy, can I get 6 dozers to concow and highway 70, report to division Delta. 

00:51:01: (Ops): 6 dozers, concow and hwy 70. Division Delta and what is the tactical? 

00:51:13: (Branch I): CDF Tac 11. 

00:53:04: (Foxtrot): Ops, Foxtrot. I know you got word that fire has crossed coudelinc road, its making a 

major run across coudelinc, probably 30 MPH winds and is alignment with drainages in Magalia reservoir 

and its (???) the town of Magalia Proper, so I know there’s already been some evacuation orders but if 

we could have LE confirm that all of Magalia proper has been evacuated. (Ops): Copy the lower portion, 

let me get my map out... South coudalinc zone, south (??? Haven zone), Carnegie, Coulter zone, all align 
to the south has been evacuated. North coudelinc, North (??? Haven) is all under advisement. Do we 

need to change that to mandatory? (Foxtrot): Affirmative. It’s going to make a major run to Magalia 

proper. (unreadable traffic).

00:54:53: (Hotel): Foxtrot, Hotel. I’m going to hop up there and tie with you, also do you need a Charlie 

ST? (Foxtrot): we got a couple of them staged, 3 of them staged, 1 alpha ST. We’re going to have to wait 

for it to makes its run to get on the flank of it. We made an attempt on Coudelinc, that didn’t shake out 

and the way the fire behavior is presenting itself, it’s not safe to put anybody in there right now. (Hotel): 

Copy, let me know, I can share one if you need it. (Foxtrot): ok, why don’t you bump up to the 

intersection of coudelinc and skyway and tie in and we can come up with a game plan. (Hotel): Affirm, 

I’m leaving station 35 right now. 

00:56:08: (Delta): Branch I, delta. (Branch I): Delta, Branch I. You’ve got 6 dozers in bound to hwy 70 and 

concow road, should be there within an hour. (Delta): (???) (Branch I): Copy and check with E2161 to see 

if he has an old map of the Poe fire. It’s about the only place we can bring it down from the (??). (Delta): 

Yeah, I’ve talked to them. Were kind of looking at that right now. (Unreadable) (Branch I): Ops, Branch I. 

00:57:31: (Branch I): Did you copy that traffic with division Delta? 

00:57:44: (Ops): Negative. (Branch I): He’s requesting 4 Charlie ST to the concow hwy 70 area to insert 

into the Yankee hill proper. (Ops): We have nothing to give. Going to have to deal with what he’s got. 

(Branch I): Copy. (Branch I): Delta, Branch I. You’re going to have to hold it with what you have. (Delta): 

Copy. (Branch I): Got a good start with Iron so hopefully you can get something accomplished by sun up. 

00:59:00: Delta, Branch I. 

00:59:15: (Delta): Branch I, Delta. go ahead. (Branch I): Yeah if you could give me an update about 0400 

what you got going over there in the Nelson bar area, just so I can pass it onto the in briefing. (Delta): 

Copy, I’ll get back to you. 

1:02:08: (Ops): Foxtrot, Ops. 

1:02:18: (Foxtrot): Ops, Foxtrot. Advise the LE has been advised and they’re going to upgrade the 

warning to a mandatory. (Foxtrot): affirmative with the fire behavior and the way the fire is moving its 

going to be (???) proper. Spot fires all over the place. (Ops): They were already in an advisory and just 

elevated to mandatory and is in the process of getting evacuated now. (Foxtrot): Copy, thanks. 

1:12:44: (Echo): Branch II, Echo. Do we have animal control out here? (Branch II): I requested a couple 

times, but I don’t think there up here. (Echo): Copy. (Branch II): What’s your location? (Echo): Pearson, 

and Black Olive. (Branch II): Ok, I’ll head that direction shortly. (Echo): I can meet you station 81. (Branch 

II): Yeah let’s do that. 

1:13:32: (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. (Branch 4): Branch 4. 

1:13:41: (Ops): Branch 4, Ops. You were requesting PG&E up into the Centerville area? (Branch 4): 

affirmative. (Ops): We have 2 that will be in route that way shortly, do you have a contact for them or 

specific area. (Branch 4): affirmative, the area will be the lower section of honey run and skyway. Go up 

honeyrun, towards Centerville, clear the powerlines that are down. (Ops): Copy, skyway to lower portion 

of (???). (Branch 4): Affirmative. 
1:14:32: (Branch I): Ops, Branch II. We also need PG&E at honeyrun and skyway working in there. (Ops): 

I have 2 of them going to you quite a while ago for that request and then I’ll these other 2 up to the 

skyway, honeyrun area up into Centerville. (Branch II): I’m looking for them, once I get them, I’ll start 

directing them out. 

1:15:05: (CH-20B): Ops, 20B. The crews were successful, wrapped the piece from clark to 149. I have a 

resource release for you if you need resources for branch I. 

1:15:32: (Ops): Go ahead with your resource release. (CH020B): 2011 Alpha, 2011 Alpha, 9430 Charlie, 

Dozer 2544, E-99 Dozer, E-175, E-174, E-998, 9275G, 2809 Alpha, 3631 Charlie, 5812 Alpha, Dozer 1743. 

1:16:36: (Ops): I missed one of the engine ST, after 2809 alpha. What was the identifier? (20B): 5812 

Alpha, WT 185, and 4061C. 

1:21:42: (CH-20B): Ops, 20B. Add 9273G to that list. (Ops): 9273G, Copy. 

1:22:23: (9236G): Juliet, 9236G. (Juliet): 9236G, Juliet. I couldn’t get out to you on Tac, I requested PG&E 

from branch several hours ago. It’s going to be awhile. (9236G): I copy, we’re good up here, taking care 

of the structures that are still here and (???). (Juliet): copy. 

1:25:57: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. (Branch I): Ops, Branch I. Go ahead. (Ops): I have a number of engine ST, 

some dozers, and WT and a number of Golfs that just came available, can you use them? 

1:26:50: (Branch I): I copy, how many engine ST do you have? (Ops): I have 2011 Alpha, 2807 Alpha, 

4062C, 3631C, and 3 golfs available and a handful of dozers. 

1:27:26: (Branch I): If we could have the engine ST report to concow and hwy 70. Report to division 

Delta, in addition, I’ll take those golf ST, have them report to division delta, CDF tac 11. (Ops): all engine 

ST, and Golfs to division delta, concow and 70, CDF tac 11. (Branch I): Affirmative. 

1:28:07: (U2141): Branch I, U2141. Just so your aware, the fire is well established on the hwy 70 side of 

Nelson Bar road down there in the cul-de-sac where those (???) houses were. 

1:28:35: (Branch I): your still on the Nelson Bar side correct? (U2141): Its spotted in there and is on the 

hwy 70 side of Nelson Bar road and is burning in between Nelson Bar and hwy 70 now. (Branch I): If you 

have an opportunity, make your way out, see if we can hold it at the green bridge. (U2141): copy (Delta): 

U2141 meet with me on hwy 70 from when we come out on that road. 

1:29:28: (Branch I): Traffic for Branch I. (Delta): Branch I, Delta. How many ST and how many Golfs were 

coming over. (Branch I): Yeah 4 ST engines, 4 ST golfs reporting to hwy 70 and concow. In addition to 

that, 3 agency dozers also reporting to concow and hwy 70. (Delta): I copy and was that part of the 6 

dozers or is that in addition to. (Branch I): That’s in addition to. (Delta): Copy.

1:32:46: (Branch I): Ops, Branch I. Go ahead. (Ops): Do you need another division? I can send you one. 

1:33:02: (Branch I): That’s affirmative. Have them report to concow road and hwy 70 and I’ll tie in with 

them. (Ops): Copy, hwy 70 and concow and all your other engine requests were to divison delta, is that 

correct? (Branch I): That will be to the new division on the south side of hwy 70, whatever the identifier 

is. (Ops): Copy that, so that equipment is going to be trickling in, it was just released off the lower end 

down here, I’m trying to raise CH-20B to see if he sent it all in or sent it all too. We’ll get it headed your 
way asap. (Ops): 20B, Ops. Did you send all that equipment to college staging? (20B): there waiting for a 

new assignment. (Ops): All that equipment will go to hwy 70 and concow and tie in with branch I. (20B): 

did he want the dozers also? (Ops): all the engines, all the golfs. Send the water tender as well, WT-189. 

(20B): it will be WT-185. 

1:35:13: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. Did you copy all the identifiers coming to you? 

1:35:33: (Branch I): go ahead with those. (Ops): 2011 Alpha, 9430C, 9275G, 2807 Alpha, 5812 Alpha, WT185, 4062C, 9675G, 3631C, 9273G. 

1:39:00: (Ops): Branch I, Ops. You still have a division Simmons, you go ahead and establish division 

Bravo. (Branch I): Copy, division Simmons, Bravo. 

1:40:06: (Oroville): Ops, Oroville. Call for imminent structure threat 3120 Jackson Ranch Rd.

1:40:41: (Ops): 3210 Canyon Ranch Rd. Can you give me a better identifier, location? (Oroville): 3120 

Jackson Ranch Rd. In the Butte College area. 

1:41:08: (Ops): 3120 Jackson Ranch Rd in the Butte College area, copy. (Oroville): Between Williams RD 

and the dead end. 

1:41:34: (Ops): B2411, Ops. Did you copy that traffic between myself and Oroville, imminent structure 

threat, 3210 Jackson Ranch Rd, between Williams Road and the dead end. 

1:41:57: (B2411): Negative, I’ll be heading that way from honey run and skyway. 

1:46:37: (U44): Branch II, U44.

1:46:47: (Branch II): Branch II. (U44): Do you know who ST 3250C is working for? 

1:47:07: (Branch II): U44, Branch II. Do you know who ST 3250C is working for? (U44): We have the 

building next to the masonic lodge, fully involved right now, I have 1 engine trying to protect the 

masonic lodge. (Rest of transmission unreadable).

1:47:50: (Branch II): He might be working for Echo, I lost track quite a bit ago. I’ll check with Echo and 

see. (U44): Looks like there showing up here, I told them to go through their supervisor, hopefully they 

will let them know but there going to be assisting us. (Branch II): go ahead and use them. 

1:48:49: (Hotel): Foxtrot, Hotel. 

1:48:58: (Foxtrot): Hotel, Foxtrot. Go ahead. We’ve got them at the Rite Aid, is there any addition TRA 

we have set up. (Foxtrot): Repeat (Hotel): We’ve got people at the Rite Aid, that’s what we’re using, but 

were having trouble getting into the building. Is there an additional place we could use? 

1:49:21: (Foxtrot): Not that I’m aware of, if anything were going to have to take refuge at the golf 

course, however, the fire front is, with the fire behavior I’m looking at from the dam is probably a 

50mph wind burning straight over to Andover Drive. (Hotel): affirm, we got pretty good fire front here at 

Rite Aid, with ember cast on the roof. (Foxtrot): Affirmative, if you got engines do what you can in terms 

of protecting the TRA, we got the fire well established on the Magalia side up on the Magalia Reservoir, 

along with a 50mph wind. (Hotel): Affirm. (Foxtrot): Hotel, Foxtrot. Something else to take into 
consideration with all the fire around the treatment plant, the pumps are probably going to be shut off 

and were going to be cut off from water. (Hotel): Copy. 

1:52:16: (Branch II): Branch II. (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. BCSO advising a structure at 1545 Elliot, it’s 

beginning to catch, they believe if we get an engine there, they could get it out quickly. 

1:52:41: (Branch II): 1545? (Oroville): Affirmative. 1545 Elliot Rd. (Branch II): cross street?

1:53:13: (Oroville): Branch II, Oroville. Will be between Neilson drive and Cameron Drive.