Kent Porter @kentphotos 2m2 minutes ago
#ValleyFire destruction on Wardlaw st. In Middletown. @NorthBayNews @CALFIRE_PIO @CAL_FIRE #CAdrought #cawildfires
Posted on 09/12/2015 7:53:30 PM PDT by rey
(My text) Over 10,000 acres in less than six hours. Four firefighters burned. 50-100 homes lost. Unconfirmed 50 people cut off from evacuation.
Lots at news site including live Twitter accounts and pics.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressdemocrat.com ...
Last report was #valleyfire 0% contained, and #buttefire 20%.
This NBC4 reporter has amazing reporting.
Kent Porter @kentphotos 2m2 minutes ago
#ValleyFire destruction on Wardlaw st. In Middletown. @NorthBayNews @CALFIRE_PIO @CAL_FIRE #CAdrought #cawildfires
A picture is worth...
“Because it is too hot and dry and there is too much accumulated fuel?
I think you mean what started it. They haven’t said. It is usually days or weeks before they do. All of the recent fires have been vehicles, hot water heater. mowing, etc. The last several days has been 100 plus. The humidity is in mid single digits. That whole area has really been waiting for this.”
Too many land owners don’t mow their weeds/green growth until they are warned by the local fire safety officials in late May to mow their land. Then they wait until summer or later to mow their land. The mowers or tractors hit a rock causing sparks and a fire.
We had a rectum do that three years in a row and cause some serious problems. This year apparently some neighbors told him the next fire he caused, he would be in a wiener roast.
He mowed while it was still green and no fire.
“ON the Twitter posted on the site there are two Arabs communicating in Arabic.”
You might consider turning this into the FBI. I don’t tweet nor twitter.
“If you wanted to do a real terrorist act, I could think of more effective places than lake County, CA. A lot of dope growers through that area. An earlier fire near there this year had firefighters reporting 100s of marijuana grows.”
These mj plantations are often planted and cultivated by illegals. They use and suck up the water around their illegal mj farms. The area around them becomes dry and arid like a desert and burn like gunpowder.
CAL FIRE PIO Berlant
@CALFIRE_PIO 8m8 minutes ago
New Evacuations ordered on the #ValleyFire in Lake County. Point Lakeview to Soda Bay (Hwy 281) is now under a mandatory evacuation.
Damn
Sad for him, but good that they got out. I have a friend in Lake County. He spent several decades accumulating car parts and memorabilia for his business restoring vintage cars. No way he'd be able to move a fraction of it, many dozens of vintage cars, hundreds of car body parts. I hope he's okay. His property is nestled among many large trees in a forest. Also have a sister in Sonoma in the forested hills. Very pretty place to live, but scary if a fire comes in.
DRAMATIC VIDEO of escaping Anderson Springs ;ast night, posted to Youtube.
Fire and houses burning on both sides of the road, for miles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg&feature=youtu.be
Oh my Lord! How terrifying!
ABC7 News
@abc7newsBayArea 2m2 minutes ago
#BREAKING: #CalFire says the #ValleyFire burning in Lake, Napa counties is now 50,000 acres. http://abc7ne.ws/1i8RLia
Containment: 0
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226
Valley Fire Incident Information:
Last Updated: September 13, 2015 3:30 pm
Date/Time Started: September 12, 2015 1:24 pm
Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit
County: Lake County
Location: off High Valley Road and Bottle Rock Road in Cobb
Acres Burned -50,000 acres
Containment:
Evacuations: New Mandatory Evacuation: Point Lakeview to Soda Bay (Hwy 281). Mandatory evacuations –Hwy 29 (Kelseyville) at Hwy 175 south on Hwy 175 towards Cobb, Red Hills Road to Hwy 29, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 south to Seigler Canyon Road (south side of Hwy 29), Hwy 29 Tubbs Lane (Calistoga, Napa County) to Hwy 29/Hwy 53 (Lower Lake, Lake County) Butts Canyon Road to Napa County Line, including Berreyssa Estates, Butts Canyon Road to Pope Valley. Communities of Cobb, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lakes.
Advisory Evacuation:
Livermore Road, Summit Lake Road and north of the community of Angwin.
Evacuation Centers:
Kelseyville Presbyterian Church in Kelseyville and Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga..
Road Closures : Hwy 29 X Bottle Rock, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 (Kelseyville), Hwy 29 X Red Hills Road, Hwy 29 X Seiglar Canyon Road and Hwy 29 from Hwy2
Injuries: 4
Cause: Under Investigation
Cooperating Agencies: CALFIRE, South Lake County Fire Protection District, CHP and Lake County Sheriffs Department
Total Fire Personnel: 1,000
Total Fire Engines: 125
Total Fire crews: 30
Total Airtankers: 4
Total Dozers: 16
Total Water Tenders: 15
Conditions: The Valley Incident has grown to 40,000 acres, 0% containment. The fire is burning in a south east direction from the Community of Cobb towards the communities of Middletown and Hidden Valley Lake. The fire is also burning north east from the Community of Cobb near the Community of Loch Lomond to Seiglar Canyon Road.
There have been an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed. There are over 5000 residence without power. During initial attack four members of Copter 104’s crew suffered burn injuries and were transported to an area burn center. Additional resources are on order and responding to this incident. See below for Mandatory Evacuations and Road Closures
Phone Numbers (707) 967-4207 (Fire Information Line)
Emily Pritchard ABC 10
8 minutes ago
#ValleyFire now 50,000 acres per CalFire. Lake Co. OES: unprecedented fire behavior still 0% containment, spreading in all directions #ABC10
Per Calfire, the fire is creating it’s own weather, expanding in all directions, and not reacting to the wind.
Per the Scanner, sending a team “up to the Geysers”.
Would that be the incredibly expensive boondoggle called Geyser’s Geothermal Powerplant??
David Louie
@abc7david
55s55 seconds ago
Expanded #ValleyFire coverage today @abc7newsBayArea 4:30-5:30 & 6-7pm.
#CalFire says 1000+ homes lost.
Wow, will keep an ear out.
http://www.geysers.com/geothermal.aspx
The Geysers, comprising 45 square miles along the Sonoma and Lake County border, is the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world. Calpine, the largest geothermal power producer in the U.S., owns and operates 14 power plants at The Geysers with a net generating capacity of about 725 megawatts of electricity - enough to power 725,000 homes, or a city the size of San Francisco.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473490-181/updates-smoke-from-valley-fire?gallery=4470892
UPDATE 3:15 p.m. VALLEY FIRE
In just over 24 hours the Valley Fire has burned about 50,000 acres without any containment and forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people - mainly in southern Lake County. That information was given Sunday afternoon at a meeting at Kelseyville High School with a variety of fire, law and government officials and about 250 people. Cal Fire spokesman Todd Derum told the audience the fire is pushing ahead in all directions, including southeast into The Geysers in Sonoma County... (more at link)
Evan Sernoffsky @EvanSernoffsky 3m3 minutes ago Many fleeing fast-moving #ValleyFire had to abandon their animals. The fate for many of them was death
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