[CoARES-D10] QST Re Picnic Rock Fire operations

[Randy Long]

Peter, KC0BYY was right in his request for more info to be posted here, so
here is what I can share.

Incident Name: Picnic Rock Fire

Location: Started near Picnic Rock on HWY 14 about 3 miles from Ted's Place
@ HWY 287 and HWY 14.

Affected area, Poudre Canyon, Bonner Peak Ranch, Cherokee Hills Subdivision
and Livermore.

Agencies being served:  American Red Cross, Larimer County Sheriff, Voad.

Starting daily manpower requirement: Min staffing 4. each shift, with two
shifts. Optimal 9, two for each station and a management slot.

Current requirement: 2 per shift, 2 shifts daily

Bands, frequencies and modes being used: 2 meters, 144.93, 145.115,  FM.
APRS

Recruiting method: On air resource activity by EOC operations. People have
checked in and advised of availability and have been contacted primarily on
air.

Empty slots not filled when needed: None

Reserves: Never less than 4/shift.

Anticipated end of assignment: Unknown.

Details as of this posting re event:

Fire Human caused

Cost to date to operate by USFS et al: $1.5 million dollars

Acreage lost: 8,745 as of Sunday 4/4/04

Structures lost: 1 home, 1 out building

Injuries or Deaths: NO Deaths,  total 2 injuries and 2 medical additional
medical transports

Agencies involved: Larimer county sheriff, US Forrest Service, several
Larimer county volunteer fire departments, Poudre Fire Authority, Loveland
Fire Department, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Larimer County VOAD, Larimer
County Humane Society, D-10 ARES.

Thanks to all hands who have participated to date! My apologies to any who
may not have been able to participate due to a lack of notification up to
this point. Regretfully my focus has been in participation and operation and
neglected to make the appropriate posting to advertise the event or  how we
had begun staffing.  I regret my not encouraging the establishment of a
formal resource net at appropriate hours of the day. Please forgive the
oversight and we will work on keeping needs and procedures more closely
addressed on the reflector as it is a part of our policy to make
notifications here as well as on the air of active events.

Staffing for ARES portion is currently taken care of thru close of business
Monday, April 5, 2004. It is unknown if the even will require our
participation beyond tomorrow, however, if it does, we will post to this to
the reflector tomorrow probably mid day or shortly after. Information
updates are put out on the 145.115 as changes occur.  During our
participation in this event, we will attempt to make sure updates also are
posted once daily on the reflector.

73,

Randy, W0AVV