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CAL FIRE’s video briefing about statewide fires, and the LNU Complex of fires

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LNU Complex of fires -- briefing
LNU Complex of fires — briefing. ABC10.

At a briefing Wednesday the first minute and a half was about the statewide wildfire situation, then they moved on to details about the LNU Complex of fires in Napa, Lake, and Solano Counties of California.

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Hennessey Fire spreads south toward Vacaville

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The LNU Complex of fires has burned tens of thousands of acres in Napa and Solano Counties in northern California

August 19, 2020  |  7:35 p.m. PDT

More evacuations have been ordered for the Hennessey and LNU Complex in northern California, this time in Napa County, including the St Helena Hospital and the communities of Angwin and Deer Park.

August 19, 2020  |  6:36 p.m. PDT

Fire jumps I-80

The Hennessey Fire has crossed Interstate 80 near Vacaville, California, prompting more evacuations. At about 5:15 p.m. @CAFireScanner reported that ground units said they had about 80 acres south of the Interstate and they would not be able to catch it without support from aviation.

August 19, 2020  |  12:58 p.m. PDT

LNU Complex fires Northern California evacuations Napa County

Official evacuation information for the LNU Complex of fires north of Vacaville is provided by @CALFIRELNU. Follow them on Twitter.

map fire Hennessey LNU Complex 1145 pm PDT August 18, 2020
Map of the fires in the LNU Complex in northern California. The data is from a privately owned aircraft and mapping system operated by Tenax Aerospace under an exclusive use contract with the U.S. Forest Service. The flight was at 11:45 p.m. PDT August 18, 2020. After the information was collected the fires spread substantially to the south and southeast. The red arrows were added by Wildfire Today indicating the direction of additional spread after the flight. There is high confidence in the accuracy of this mapping data, much more than heat data collected by satellites.

The map above of the fires in the LNU Complex in northern California is from a fixed wing mapping flight at 11:45 p.m. MDT August 18. After the flight the fires spread substantially to the south and southeast. The red arrows were added by Wildfire Today indicating the direction of additional spread after the flight. This is considered accurate data, much better than information collected by an orbiting satellite passing by hundreds of miles above the Earth. The limitation is that it is just a snapshot of one moment in time while the fires are spreading very rapidly, in some cases, into populated areas. This data is usually only available once a day in the middle of the night.

The mapping flight determined that at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday the size of the multiple fires in the Complex combined (Gamble, 15-10, Hennessey, and others) was 51,223 acres.

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