Daily Briefing

Fast-moving Bouquet wildfire and confirmed Missouri–Illinois flood warnings headline a busy Sunday for responders

By The FirstResponders Desk

Good morning. A fast-growing wildfire in the Angeles National Forest north-east of Santa Clarita, California — the Bouquet fire — is reported by The Guardian to have reached 1,000 acres by Saturday evening and triggered evacuation orders and warnings, with crews working it from the ground and air; this is unconfirmed by any agency. Treat acreage and evacuation extent as moving numbers until your own command or a fire agency puts them out. Fire readers elsewhere should note the same material carries unconfirmed satellite fire-detection feeds over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Idaho — detections, not confirmed fires, and none confirmed by any agency.

On the flood side, these are agency-confirmed: the National Weather Service office in St. Louis has Flood Warnings (Warning Severe) out for Gasconade and Montgomery counties, Missouri; Boone, Callaway, Cole and Moniteau, Missouri; Callaway and Osage, Missouri; Pike, Illinois with Pike, Missouri; and Calhoun, Illinois with Pike, Missouri. NWS Chicago has a Flood Warning for Lake County, Illinois. If your district is on that list, expect water-rescue and road-closure traffic through the shift.

Fire safety: Firefighter Close Calls reports that a Londonderry, New Hampshire firefighter who caught fire during a Friday-night house fire — a flashover, when a room's hot air and smoke ignites all at once — is recovering at home; this is unconfirmed by any agency. We are not naming the member.

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