Station fire report: Report on Station fire = contradicts Forest Service

As Capt. Perri Hall watched helplessly, a blaze that had appeared=20 containable erupted into the devastating Station fire. A report by Hall, = obtained by The Times, contradicts key assertions by the U.S. Forest = Service=20 about its response to last summer's disaster.

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Records show no mention of terrain in withholding aircraft = during=20 Station fire

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Just after first light, = a=20 tactical observation plane took off from its old military base in Hemet = for an=20 urgent mission above the cathedral peaks of the Angeles National=20 Forest.

The two-man crew had been deployed to direct an air = assault on=20 the few acres of brush still burning on Day 2 of last summer's Station = fire,=20 which had been nearly contained the evening before.

As the crew = prepared=20 for the arrival of three or more air tankers, conditions appeared good = for=20 knocking the blaze down once and for all. Winds were calm, and the sun = had yet=20 to rise above the pine-crowned mountaintops to heat the thick carpet of=20 chaparral where the fire had flared overnight.

Capt. Perri Hall, a veteran air attack officer for the = California=20 Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, who was over the blaze = minutes=20 before 7 a.m. on Aug. 27, radioed the U.S. Forest Service with the = intention of=20 bringing in the tankers, a lead plane and helicopters.

There was = no=20 answer.

"I made several attempts to contact someone on the ground = =E2=80=A6 with=20 no luck," Hall recounts in a report. "I then attempted to make contact = with [the=20 Angeles National Forest] on the command frequencies."

The minutes = were=20 passing.

"I finally was able to make contact =E2=80=A6 and ask = for the lead plane=20 to be started ASAP," he says. "They advise the lead plane would not be = available=20 until 0900 hours.

"I then ask to start any air tankers they had = and again=20 I was told nothing available until 0900-0930 hours. "I then ask if there = were=20 any heli-tankers available and if so get them started. Again I was told = nothing=20 available until 0930 hours.

"I gave them a quick report on = conditions of=20 3-4 acres [burning] =E2=80=A6 with potential of a major = fire."

That potential=20 began turning into reality about an hour later. The fire jumped a = critical=20 defense line along Angeles Crest Highway and raced through the dried-out = scrub=20 and trees, becoming the biggest conflagration in Los Angeles County = history. Two=20 county firefighters were killed.

Hall's account of Day 2, a copy = of which=20 was obtained by The Times, contradicts key assertions by the Forest = Service=20 about its response to the fire. Hall wrote the 1,000-word report soon = after the=20 mission, out of frustration and anger at the Forest Service's failure to = unleash=20 a more aggressive aerial attack, according to people with knowledge of = the=20 situation who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to = speak=20 publicly.

The captain's narrative challenges a leading conclusion = of the=20 Forest Service's official review of the fire: that an earlier aerial = assault on=20 Day 2 would have been ineffective because rough terrain would have = prevented=20 ground crews from finishing the job. Hall makes no mention of terrain = problems,=20 and it was his responsibility to determine whether the landscape was an=20 impediment to aerial drops.

Despite Hall's expertise and = bird's-eye=20 perspective, the Forest Service review team never interviewed him, = officials=20 said. His plane had been assigned to the fire at the Forest Service's=20 request.

Former Forest Service officials say Hall's account is = crucial to=20 any assessment of the firefight because it was his job to determine when = and=20 where aircraft should be used.

In the report, Hall describes how = he=20 planned to hit the flames quickly:

"I tried again to contact = someone on=20 the ground and [a Forest Service battalion chief] responded back to me. = I ask if=20 he had any crews on the fire below the road (eastside of highway) and = advised=20 him that if I can get some aircraft I was going to go to work direct as = possible=20 on it."

But he could not get the aircraft and watched helplessly = as the=20 blaze that had appeared so containable erupted into a = disaster:

"As the=20 sun came up from behind the ridge to the east the down canyon wind began = to=20 increase and started pushing this new fire parallel to the highway. It = began to=20 burn freely on both the north and south end."

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wgwarden at 2:02 = PM July 05,=20 2010

I would like to believe the Cal Fire guy, but there is so much bad = blood=20 competition between the Feds and the State, that this mindset creates a=20 credibility gap. Rather, these agencies should be working more = closely to=20 serve the public better. Quit the recriminations. Learn from = one's=20 collective mistakes. Do a better job next time.

Stone_Icon at = 1:38 PM July=20 05, 2010

I seem to remember there was another fire going at the same time, one = which=20 endangered homes in the more wealthy area of Rancho Palos Verdes. And = the=20 decision was made to use the air resources there instead because, the = then=20 smaller Station Fire was 'not a danger.' Strange how I've heard nothing = about=20 this in any of the stories about the investigation. The news broadcasts = I was=20 watching as the fires were burning refenced it several times. Very=20 1984-ish.

mikewalker789 at 12:34=20 PM July 05, 2010

Good riddance to the badly mismanaged '00's.

Those thinking about long-term recovery, know the environment will be = a big=20 winner in the conversion to biofuels & biopower.

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