Damage assessments from the Berkeley Tuolumne Camp revealed extensive
losses of infrastructure. Rapid fire growth and extreme fire behavior
are hampering suppression efforts. A significant utilization and
reliance upon aerial resources with heavy air tankers including DC-10s
and MAFFS (C-130's) is occurring with structure defense prep of
locations in advance of the fires spread, control of spot fires and
slowing the fires advancement through terrain inaccessible to ground
resources.
