Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range

[Ellen]

Fire is in heavy brush; 3N31 (Sheep Creek Rd.) and 3N33 are closed.  Fire crews on scene.  Tankers enroute. 

[Wrightwood]

Shooting Fire

[Wrightwood]

10-15 acres at the ridgetop

[CA5th]

Telegraph Peak quad T2N R6W Sections 5 and 6 

[hill okie]

Third fire there caused by shooters. You'd think that there would not be any vegetation left to burn.

[Wrightwood]

While waiting for fixed wings to reload this jet flew over

[Moose]

That explains the 3 lookouts posted along LPC this afternoon.

[Wildman]

The air tanker shortage will really become apparent this summer when the scarce resources may not be available in our area because of other fires.  National air tankers and helicopters are at record lows because of a lot of factors....mostly aging airframes.

[spellbinder]

I go shooting at the range often, and have often wondered why they dont build a block wall at the top of the ridge and put high pressure sprinklers on top that would be fed from either a water truck or one of the springs in the area...

seems that if they had a perimeter around the range the risk would be far less...