From Inciweb — Incident Information System
As of September 9, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.
The Radford Fire was spotted at 1:30 p.m. along the Radford Truck Trail on September 5, 2022. The fire continues to burn actively in the Converse Creek drainage of the Santa Ana River watershed. This area is steep and difficult to access with dense vegetation and little recorded fire history. Firefighters are engaging on all sides of the current fire perimeter. Reduced fuel along the northern edge of the fire is slowing down fire intensity and allowing firefighters to “go direct” and halt fire progress where it is burning. Many years of proactive fuel-break work along Skyline Ridge has made the Big Bear community much more defensible in anticipation of this kind of fire threat. Firefighters are working on the ground aided by water-dropping helicopters and large aircraft dropping fire retardant.
For more details and current information, follow this link to the Radford Fire webpage on the Inciweb website.
Radford Fire as of 2022-09-09 at 07:35 am PDT
For updated current map, follow this link and go to “Daily Map” in the Incident Overview section of the Inciweb site:
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8390/