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Hog Fire burns more than 5,000 acres west of Susanville, CA

UPDATED at 4:50 p.m. PDT July 20, 2020A pyrocumulus cloud over the Hog Fire, seen from Dyer Mountain looking northeast at 3:25 p.m. MDT July 20, 2020.Several of the AlertWildfire cameras near the Hog Fire west of Susanville, California have little to no visibility due to smoke, but the Dyer Mountain 1 cam further to the southwest has a good view of the top of a pyrocumulus cloud generated by the fire.(Originally published at 10:55 a.m. PDT July 20, 2020) Hog Fire, looking northeast from Hamilton Mountain at 7:36 p.m. PDT July 19, 2020. AlertWildfire photo, via @CAFireScanner.The Hog Fire has prompted mandatory evacuations in northern California west of Susanville. By Sunday night it had burned 5,800 acres of land protected by the Lassen National Forest and the state of California. At 3:30 a.m. July 20 the fire was about one mile west of a housing development on the west side of the William D. McIntosh Highway (A1) and five miles west of Susanville. It has spread approximately 5 miles to the east since it started and is on both sides of Highway 44. Steep terrain and spot fires ahead of the main fire are complicating efforts of firefighters.Resources assigned Sunday night included 25 fire engines, 8 hand crews, 15 dozers, 15 water tenders, 4 helicopters, and 6 air tankers.The Facebook page for the Lassen County Sheriff’s office has details on evacuations. Anyone without internet capabilities can get information by calling (530) 282-5714.An update from CAL FIRE at 9:30 a.m. Monday stated that no structures had been damaged or destroyed. Map of the Hog Fire. The white line was the perimeter determined during a fixed wing mapping flight at 11:54 p.m. PDT July 19. The red dots represent heat detected by a satellite at 3:30 a.m. July 20, 2020.After the mapping flight at 11:54 p.m. July 19 a shift in the wind pushed a portion of the southern perimeter to the south toward Highway 36.
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Author: Bill Gabbert
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