Follow-Up: Henderson Fire at Camp Pendleton Reaches 95% Containment; Size Revised to 3,260 Acres on Precise Mapping
SAN DIEGO COUNTY — Containment of the Henderson Fire at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton has risen to 95%, and its size has been revised to 3,260 acres on more precise mapping, according to an update posted on CAL FIRE's official incident page at 5:55 a.m. on Monday, October 19. CAL FIRE said the change in acreage is due to more precise mapping. The update comes about a day after the previous official update, at 7:50 a.m. on October 18, which put containment at 65% — a gain of 30 points. The incident page lists the Camp Pendleton Fire Department as the agency having jurisdiction, supported by a San Diego County Type 3 incident management team and cooperating agencies including the U.S. Marine Corps, CAL FIRE, the U.S. Forest Service's Cleveland National Forest and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). The cause remains under investigation, and the official damage assessment confirms one structure destroyed.
Containment in sequence: officials reported 20% on the morning of October 17, 35% that afternoon, 50% by that evening, 65% on the morning of October 18, and 95% on the morning of October 19. Evacuations and roads saw no new changes: the update issued no new evacuation orders or warnings — the order for the base's Las Flores (41 Area) was lifted at 7:31 p.m. on October 15, and no evacuation orders have been issued for surrounding off-base communities at any point — and Interstate 5, twice closed in both directions by flames and smoke, fully reopened on the afternoon of October 16, with no new closure mentioned.
The fire began at 2:35 p.m. on October 15 near Henderson Street and Brown Street on the base and grew quickly under easterly winds: it was mapped at 1,404 acres that evening, prompting the 41 Area evacuation order and the first I-5 closure; on October 16 it reached about 2,080 acres with containment still at zero and I-5 closed in both directions a second time, before containment rose to 20% and the freeway fully reopened that evening; on the morning of October 17, mapping revised the size up to 3,132 acres and containment reached 50% that day; containment rose to 65% on the morning of October 18 as the work shifted to mop-up; by the morning of October 19, containment had reached 95% and the size had been revised to 3,260 acres on more precise mapping.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：Henderson Fire 态势图，Watch Duty 截图（10月16日13时50分截取，本轮重新裁切）。图中红色周界为截取时的火场范围（2,079.4英亩），西南侧橄榄色区域为疏散分区；最新官方数据以正文为准：过火面积3,260英亩、控制率95%（加州消防局 CAL FIRE 官方事故页10月19日上午5时55分通报，面积变化源于更精确测绘）。图片来源：Watch Duty。Situation map of the Henderson Fire, Watch Duty screenshot taken at 1:50 p.m. on Oct. 16 (re-cropped for this update). The red perimeter reflects mapping at capture time (2,079.4 acres), with the evacuation zone shaded olive at the southwest; the latest official figures are in the text: 3,260 acres and 95% containment, per CAL FIRE's incident-page update at 5:55 a.m. on Oct. 19, with the acreage change attributed to more precise mapping. Source: Watch Duty.
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