Green Fire Update for 7-16-25

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Start Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Size: 15,438 acres
Cause: Lightning
Location: Shasta County, CA.
Percent Contained: 13%
California Team 10: Joe Sean Kennedy, IC

Several days ago an injured firefighter required an extensive effort to extract them from the field. In addition to the firefighters’ crew, the effort involved what is known as a Rapid Extraction Module (REM Team), an airship that was unable to assist due to smoke-related visibility, and ultimately a bulldozer that was used to move the firefighter to a staged ambulance. This firefighter is now at home recovering. Incident Commander Joe Sean Kennedy, in expressing his thanks to all involved in the effort, noted “We are going to do everything we can to ensure the safety of our men and women on the fireline. We have an obligation to learn from these experiences, to improve, and to share those lessons learned.” To that end, the Incident Management Team has invited a Rapid Lesson Sharing Team to the Green Fire. Rapid Lesson Sharing is a process for quickly disseminating lessons learned from incidents, enabling the sharing of experiences like this to improve safety and effectiveness on future incidents. The Wildland Lessons Learned Center (https://lessons.fs2c.usda.gov/) facilitates this by providing a platform for submitting, reviewing, and publishing these reports. Our first priority remains ensuring the safety of the public and the men and women we ask to serve on the fireline.

Resources: The fire currently has use of two Super Scooper aircraft; 9 helicopters, 6 of which are Type 1 airships; 26 Bulldozers; 102 Engines; 29 Crews, 17 of which are Type I Hotshot Crews. Six watercraft are assigned to the Pit River. Medical resources on the fire include 5 field ambulances, 22 Medics, 12 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), and 4 Rapid Extraction Modules (REM Teams).

Fire Activity: The eastern flank of the fire has continued its progression eastward up the ridge from the Flat Creek drainage and then descending downslope toward Rip Gut Creek. Yesterday, four small spot fires were contained by crews working the northern portion of the fireline along Rip Gut Ridge.

The fire is slowly moving toward the Pit River. To the west, the fire has reached the Brock Mountain Road. The spot fire that crossed the Brock Mountain Road yesterday has been contained. To the north of the fire, the fire continues to move downslope into the Smith Creek drainage, where it is still south of containment lines.

Fire Weather: The next four to five days are predicted to bring slightly lower temperatures with daily highs approaching 90 to 95 degrees and relative humidities that will be in the range of 20 – 25%.

Higher daytime humidity, and increasing humidity overnight, may help to moderate fire behavior, particularly at night when firefighters are conducting firing operations. Winds will continue their pattern of morning northeast flows shifting to afternoon winds out of the southwest that produce clearing skies in the southern half of the fire while delivering smoke to the northern half of the fire. Gusts in the afternoon may reach 15 mph. Evening downslope winds will assist firing and holding crews that are tasked with firing operations to strengthen firelines.

Fire Operations: Operations has prioritized the construction of fireline on the southwest flank of the fire. Assisted by watercraft on the Pit River, handcrews will construct firelines between the Pit River and Sulanharas arms of Shasta Lake that will serve as the primary southwest containment feature. Additional firing operations along firelines in the north and northeast areas of the fire occurred last night and will occur again tonight as conditions allow. This will create greater depth along these firelines increasing the probability that they will hold in the event that they are tested by the fire. Firing operations will move south along the Rip Gut Ridge fireline to strengthen the eastern flank fireline.

The fire has reached the Brock Mountain Road. The task of holding the road by crews requires persistent reconnaissance to detect any burning debris that may cross the road to subsequently ignite a spot fire. To the south, the Pit River Group will continue missions to move firefighters while contributing to suppression of the fire along the Pit River. Keeping the fire north of the Pit River is a key management objective.

Evacuations: As of July 12, a portion of Shasta County Zone LKH-1448 has been placed under an mandatory evacuation order. All or portions of Shasta County Zones LKH-1448, LKH-1190, LKH-1200 are under an evacuation warning. Information related to evacuation zones can be found by going to https://protect.genasys.com/search. Shasta County’s emergency alert and public warning system, AlertShasta, can be found here: https://www.shastacounty.gov/community/page/alertshasta-shasta- countys-new-public-warning-system.

Closures: Shasta National Forest closure orders related to the Green Fire may be found here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/shasta-trinity/alerts/green-fire-closure-order.

Additional fire-related information:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF/

InciWeb: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/cashf-2025-shastatrinity-lightning

 Air quality: https://www.airnow.gov

Additional Information at Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shffirepio