Patrol and Operations Report 10/18/2009

Drove up the Arroyo and out the Edison Road. Passable (for now) with the Chevy Colorado, wouldn't take the F350 though. The next good rain will probably make it impassable, there were already numerous slides as all the vegetation is burned up. There was foot and bicycle traffic even with the AREA CLOSED signs posted.

They are doing lots of work up on ACH, which is still closed. Replacing guard rails and clearing storm drains and maybe making new ones. They had a large auger truck and lots of galvanized drain tubes.

El Prieto is pretty burnt, although some areas down low more or less survived. Sunset trail is totally burnt up, you can see just about the whole trail from the Lowe Road. There will be numerous slides when the rains come and the trail will most likely be wiped out. Sierra Saddle survived, but the area around it is totally burnt up.

The foot traffic gate at Pinecrest gate is open again.

We heard Fire rolling to Cobb Estate and shortly after got called out for heart attack victim 50 yards ABOVE Echo Mt. Fire was going up the trail from Cobb Estate. Team members took off up the Lowe Road with intent to hike across the Echo Mt trail. We noticed a Fire helo up in the area and by the time we got to the trailhead heard they had the victim and were on the way to Huntington.

We were going to deploy with med pack and AED and have the next crew bring litter/wheel in. We had the collapsable litter and knew they would repackage anyway for an airlift so wasn't going to deploy with it.