Cedar Park Fire

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At Parmer Lane and1431.

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52487]

Save the taproom at all costs 

[austingirl 2191]

I was at Red Horn for trivia and we had to evacuate about 20 minutes into the first round. Hope they get everything under control soon. 

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Now it has jumped 1431

[troph 24781]

Saw it from Spicewood on the lake but didn’t snap a pic.   Nuts. 

[Dbeasy 15042]

My son in law is a fire fighter out there. This fire is big. 

[Gatorubet 30189]

Just look at Google Maps. There’s an In-N-Out Burger at risk. Oh, the huge manatee!!

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[HenryJames 66038]

 

[Anastasis 23464]

This whole area is a matchstick waiting to go up off. I worry about all the dead limbs downed during the freeze just going off in the wooded areas around me. Was driving down 620 behind some asshole that flicked a gif out his window and almost road raged him. 

[atomheartbevo 89630]

6 minutes ago, leaf said:

 

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Holy shit.  That's a lot of fire.

[austingirl 2191]

These are looking southeast from the deck at Red Horn about 6:30 pm. We were evacuated about 20 minutes later. 

[Smax 3800]

47 minutes ago, leaf said:

 

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where is that?

[leaf 684]

My sister sent me that video.  She lives very close to there

[Armybrat 40826]

My brother’s grandson is a Round Rock fire marshal, so he’s probably involved in some way.

[InkaUtexas 25875]

Buddy is right in the path. Loading up his dental lab. The videos he sent me are pretty damn scary. 

Wildfire = Get the fuck out. 

[Homercles 10205]

I’ve walked back there many, many times…sometimes as a way to get back home after dropping my car at the Firestone.  Parts of those biking trails are known as Suburban Ninja.  

That apartment complex is right against the woods.  Wouldn’t take much for a cigarette butt or grill dumbassery to light the whole place up. 
 

Off the trails it is nothing but brush, downed limbs and dried out tinder.  Last time I walked there was probably March, and was surprised to see evidence of a sizable fire about 100’ into the woods from the apartments.  

[cactusflinthead 27598]

Lots of fuel in there. Scary 

[Homercles 10205]

Fire chief said that it started along Parmer, moved around those Bexley apartments, one building is a total loss with two more damaged.  
 

Mayor all about thanking everyone from EMS to Abbott to Elvis I guess. 
 

If it was a fucking dumbass throwing a cigarette out the window…

[3adays 454]

2 minutes ago, Homercles said:

Fire chief said that it started along Parmer, moved around those Bexley apartments, one building is a total loss with two more damaged.  
 

Mayor all about thanking everyone from EMS to Abbott to Elvis I guess. 
 

If it was a fucking dumbass throwing a cigarette out the window…

That was a weird press conference. They were all slapping each others backs like they have the fire put out already. 

[HornOnTheBayou 8919]

1 hour ago, leaf said:

Now it has jumped 1431

Are we sure about this? I haven't seen it reported anywhere else. 

[Homercles 10205]

7 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Are we sure about this? I haven't seen it reported anywhere else. 

I mean…the Cedar Park fire chief said it + parts of 1431 are closed. 

[HornOnTheBayou 8919]

Well in that case, just ignore me.

[BrickHorn 18217]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Just look at Google Maps. There’s an In-N-Out Burger at risk. 

The In-N-Out Burger is on Camrose.

[Biff Tannen 45667]

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

The In-N-Out Burger is on Camrose.

I'm doing this to bump the thread so those who need to see it for information will see it.  Well done.

[Leeroy Jenkins 2402]

That area is going to be tough.  That fire behavior is something. 

[4th_and_18 687]

From Reddit:

[Roger Kint 19]

 

1 hour ago, 3adays said:

That was a weird press conference. They were all slapping each others backs like they have the fire put out already. 

Right as the wind was picking up too

Edited August 9, 2023 by Roger Kint

[Biff Tannen 45667]

1 hour ago, 4th_and_18 said:

From Reddit:

Nooooooooooo

[Rip76 4925]

From Lindner.

1 hour ago.

 

Edited August 9, 2023 by Rip76

[Leeroy Jenkins 2402]

120 acres there is huge. 
 

That wind will cause spot fires that makes containment very difficult.  

[DalTxHornFan 3097]

Hopefully the Spec's north of 1431 is safe.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins 2402]

Forest Service just updated it at 50 acres. That makes more sense to me. Dozers are cutting lines at this time.

Fire like this always get over estimated in size.

[Homercles 10205]

While it’s cool to get the visuals, flying your drone while EMS helicopters and those turboprop Air Tractors are navigating a tight airspace at low altitude is dumb as fuck…

[atomheartbevo 89630]

26 minutes ago, Homercles said:

While it’s cool to get the visuals, flying your drone while EMS helicopters and those turboprop Air Tractors are navigating a tight airspace at low altitude is dumb as fuck…

And it's becoming more of a problem - they are close to, if not already, starting to prosecute people fucking around trying to get a video for the likes. I don't know whether it was Canyon Lake or another area, but they had a problem with somebody flying their drones trying to get close-in video of the aircraft scooping up water.

[Homercles 10205]

I bet it is.  

Was thinking everyone at Breakaway was shuttling their birds out, but checked ADSBExchange to see a pair of Air Tractors out of Fredericksburg doing pylon turns over the fire.  Went up to my roof to watch them do a few more circuits, then pull up and head east to Exec…doing maybe 150kts at 200ft they’d have zero time to react if they smashed into a drone.  

Bend a main rotor on a chopper would be even worse.  Saw a drone vid of someone flying above the Travis County helicopters altitude.  

Even our mayor, between praising every conceivable person (again, including Abbott for some reason) said it’s a crime to fly them there.  Stupid. 

[Herbie Hancock 7345]

If there's drones in the air and they know it they will ground all aircraft.

[Smax 3800]

7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And it's becoming more of a problem - they are close to, if not already, starting to prosecute people fucking around trying to get a video for the likes. I don't know whether it was Canyon Lake or another area, but they had a problem with somebody flying their drones trying to get close-in video of the aircraft scooping up water.

This it interferes with air operations, a few years back during the Dixie fire Calfire had to shut down air because of pubic drones being the way. A quick google and it seems they still dealing with this problem today.

 

People are fucking stupid 

[austingirl 2191]

25 minutes ago, Smax said:

pubic drones

That’s a great typo.

[Captainant 27641]

8 hours ago, Homercles said:

While it’s cool to get the visuals, flying your drone while EMS helicopters and those turboprop Air Tractors are navigating a tight airspace at low altitude is dumb as fuck…

 

7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And it's becoming more of a problem - they are close to, if not already, starting to prosecute people fucking around trying to get a video for the likes. I don't know whether it was Canyon Lake or another area, but they had a problem with somebody flying their drones trying to get close-in video of the aircraft scooping up water.

There's almost certainly a TFR out for the airspace over the wildfire so those drone operators are committing a felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $100k fine. The FAA is prosecuting a couple dozen of these cases but it's relatively new law still. 

If y'all happened to have gotten the ADS-B info for the drones, you could certainly pass it along to the local FAA office 

Edited August 9, 2023 by Captainant

[South Austin 52459]

38 minutes ago, Smax said:

pubic drones

 

11 minutes ago, austingirl said:

That’s a great typo.

And my new jam band name.

[Homercles 10205]

Drove by the church off our hood, which is my jump off point for the trails there.  No smoke, a few trucks throwing water back there and the Aggy site says 60% contained…so a bunch of hard mofos put in a ton of work overnight.  

Edited August 9, 2023 by Homercles

[Trey3216 15345]

21 minutes ago, austingirl said:

That’s a great typo.

Put it on the band name list.   

[InkaUtexas 25875]

21 minutes ago, Homercles said:

Drove by the church off our hood, which is my jump off point for the trails there.  No smoke, a few trucks throwing water back there and the Aggy site says 60% contained…so a bunch of hard mofos put in a ton of work overnight.  

Yep, those crews kick ass and do not quit. Buddy's lab was real close. He spent all night driving around delivering water and Gatorade. Now he just wants to not smell smoke and get some sleep. Any update on losses? 

Sucks there is no relief in sight. 

[Bevo 13570]

5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep, those crews kick ass and do not quit. Buddy's lab was real close. He spent all night driving around delivering water and Gatorade. Now he just wants to not smell smoke and get some sleep. Any update on losses? 

Sucks there is no relief in sight. 

Karlan?

[Homercles 10205]

17 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep, those crews kick ass and do not quit. Buddy's lab was real close. He spent all night driving around delivering water and Gatorade. Now he just wants to not smell smoke and get some sleep. Any update on losses? 

Sucks there is no relief in sight. 

I get my info from Austin subreddit, and sounds like a couple of those apartment buildings are total losses.  15 acres.  That’s about all I know

[Jerry Callo 8699]

I apartment building with 24 units completely destroyed, 3 other buildings partially damaged.  The work done to prevent further loss is amazing.  There is a neighborhood of townhomes nearby that were in the path of the fire and, as I understand, all were spared.  The fire burned all around and right up to that little neighborhood.

[Homercles 10205]

Pic from Reddit…

You can see the ruined apartment building   

When I’ve walked back from Firestone/Red Horn near the upper-left, I follow that little green line between the apartments and houses, then turn towards the bottom where the trail follows the left edge of that water/foam towards Parmer.   

You can see why those of us bordering this large green space were a little nervous last night…outstanding job to all involved

[Born to Run 6569]

Looks like Suburban Ninja? That sucks.

[Homercles 10205]

4 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Looks like Suburban Ninja? That sucks.

Yep the northern part that heads to red horn