Friday, July 03, 2020

IMET deployments (July 3)

National Weather Service (NWS)  Incident Meteorologists (IMET) continue to be deployed to wildfires. Thank-you IMETs for your work on wildfires to keep the firefighters safe. IMETs save lives. Deployments are for no longer then two weeks. Here are the deployments since June 16th. Note the variation in fire size in the list below.

On June 17, US National Weather Service Tucson Arizona IMET was deployed to the Bighorn Fire that was burning in the Coronado National Forest near Oro Valley, AZ. As I write this the Bighorn Fire has burned 118,804 acres.

On June 19, an IMET from the US National Weather Service Cheyenne Wyoming was deployed to the Sand Creek Fire. I wrote about the Sand Creek Fire here. The Sand Creek Fire has burned 97 acres in a remote section of the San Juan Forest near Durango, Colorado.

An US National Weather Service IMET from the El Paso Texas NWS Weather Forecast Office was deployed to the Vics Peak Fire on June 25th. The Vics Peak Fire has burned 11,463 acres in the Cibola National Forest and National Grassland near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

An IMET from the US National Weather Service Reno Nevada was deployed to the Monarch Fire on June 25. The Monarch Fire has burned 2,324 acres. The Monarch Fire is near Carson City, Nevada.

On June 29, an IMET from the US National Weather Service Las Vagas, Nevada was deployed to the Mahogany Fire in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Mt. Charleston, Nevada. The Mahogany Fire has burned 2,794 acres.

On June 29, an IMET from the US National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, Utah was deployed to the Canal Fire near Oak City, Utah. The Canal Fire has burned 76,647 acres.

Finally, on June 30 an US National Weather Service IMET from the Flagstaff Arizona Weather Forecast Office was deployed to the Wood Springs 2 Fire near Ganado, Arizona. This wildfire has burned 11,857 acres.

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