Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27

10/27/03 | Myself

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Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27

Cal Fire Maps

http://wildfire.cr.usgs.gov/ca_geomac/viewer.htm

http://www.incidentcontrol.com

Live online scanner feeds for fire, cops, CDF, air attack

http://www.live365.com/stations/kb6jag

FYI, this one gives pop ups if you use it.

No pop ups on this feed

http://www.police-scanner.info/livescan.htm

Another live scanner feed.

Click on Big Bear Feed

http://www.compucations.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=LiveScanners

another live feed for socal, Verdugo Fire Communications Center

http://verdugo.ci.glendale.ca.us/radio.html

CHP Dispatch

http://cad.chp.ca.gov/

CDF AIR CHANNELS ---------------- Red - 151.220 - Air to ground units Blue - 151.280 - Air to air Green - 151.295 - Air to air Yellow - 151.310 - Air to air Victor - 122.925 AM - Air to air for contract helicopters

List of channels for SoCal

http://www.qsl.net/ke6alv/

Get a copy of Police call for when you're mobile.

http://www.policecall.com/

San Bernardino National Forest

171.475 mhz and 172.225

123.9750 National Air Tanker Base Freq. 135.9750 Air ops 151.2200 CDF Red Air to Ground 151.2650 CDF Region 151.3100 CDF Air Tactics 6 151.3550 CDF Command Net 1 154.2650 OES White Fire 2 154.2800 OES White Fire 1 154.2950 OES White Fire 3 164.1250 Fire Camp Service Net 166.6125 "Command" Fontana area 166.8500 Air attack 167.9500 BLM Air to Ground 168.0500 NIFC Tac 1 168.0750 NIFC Tac 3 168.200 NIFC Tac 2 (Crew Net) 168.2500 BLM? "Command" 168.4000 BLM "Command" 168.6000 NIFC Tac 3 168.6250 Air Guard 169.1250 Calif. Fire Travel Net 169.0625 vehicle mechanics? 170.0000 Air to Ground Region 5 173.9125 Region 5 Tac 4 173.9625 Region 5 Tac 5 173.9875 Region 5 Tac 6 415.5500 National Air channel

HAM

145.220

Los Angeles Area

KNBC: http://www.nbc4.tv

KABC: http://www.abc7.com

KCBS: http://www.cbs2.com

KTTV: http://www.fox11la.com

KCAL: http://www.kcal.com

San Diego

http://nbcsandiego.feedroom.com/?fr_story=af0368e01c0323615f2e6f30970885b317fe905c

[It's me]

Sorry, Mt Woodson is in the thick of things. I imagine that he has been evacuated. Mayor and police chief are saying to keep off the phones. The people here should call one friend or relative outside of San Diego and have them call all other firends and relatives to update them. THis woiuld cut down on the calls into San Diego.

[Toidylop]

He's just south of the church. The whole area was mandatory evacuated. Let's hope that the wind stay calm.

[ladyesk]

So far RB is ok. But the way things are going nobody can predict what will happen next.

[Deo volente]

Here's an update, from a local TV station.

http://www.kfmb.com/topstory19337.html

[It's me]

Last night I heard that both those areas have damage and destroyed houses. The Garden Road Elem schoool is/was fine last night but there were houses destroyed around it.

Sorry.

[PhiKapMom]

We have friends that live in Calimesa and one of my good friends lives on Bryant but toward Calimesa not toward the Ranger Station. Lived on Date Avenue east of Bryant.

Remember that area well -- was back there not that long ago and was all over the area checking out how it had grown since we left and how the house was doing. Took my youngest daughter all around and up to Big Bear and came down through Arrowhead into San Bernardino. That Rim of the World drive gives me the creeps on a nice clear day with no fires.

MSNBC covering all the fires now!

[Conservative4Ever]

You were in the neighborhood. Whitewater is about 20 miles east of Cherry Valley. Whitewater is right at the edge of the bottleneck end of the pass area. Many moons ago hiked to the peak of Mt. San Gorgonio...yep...hot dry and windy when you reach Whitewater. :)

[ladyesk]

I'm pretty sure the Mt. Woodson areas was evacuated yesterday. I know there was fire in the area yesterday near Archie Moore Rd. I think that is near Mt. Woodson.

[PhiKapMom]

This billboard is worth a 1,000 words -- we should making the environmentalist be out on the front lines of these fires and get a close up look!

[markman46]

any problems on "S" mountain???, or is the fire on the santee side?

[CathyRyan]

Hope this is easier to read....

SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 900 AM PST MON OCT 27 2003

.Short Term...Main concern this morning is wind advisories currently in effect across ventura/los angeles counties. Surface gradients are showing a noticeable onshore trend. Combined with much weaker upper support...offshore winds are much weaker than 24 hours ago. In fact strongest gust to be found is 39 mph at chilao. With advisory level winds not developing will drop all wind advisories at 930

am...but will still mention potential for locally gusty winds below passes and canyons. Hopefully with weaker offshore winds...fire crews will able to get good handle on the fires.

[BurbankKarl]

Fires Take Lives, Homes
Fire Forces Evacuations, School Closures

POSTED: 1:09 p.m. PST October 26, 2003
UPDATED: 10:55 a.m. PST October 27, 2003

SAN DIEGO -- Wildfires continued to burn in San Diego County today after claiming at least 11 lives, destroying more than 460 homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.

Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency for San Diego County and planned to ask President Bush for disaster declarations for San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties, making them eligible for federal and state aid for fire victims.

Davis plans to visit San Diego today at 12 p.m. He will meet with Mayor Dick Murphy and tour the Scripps Ranch area.

The Cedar fire, which broke out near Ramona late Saturday and spread to Scripps Ranch, El Cajon, Crest, and Alpine amid strong Santa Ana winds, high temperatures and low humidity, had charred more than 200,000 acres by this morning, according to 10News.

The blaze burned more than 150 structures around Scripps Ranch and 10 in Tierrasanta, the San Diego Fire Department reported. Elsewhere, the flames moved into the foothills above Santee and forced evacuations in the Shadow Mountain area on the east side of El Cajon.

"There were some structures destroyed up on the end of Camino Monte Sombra, in the Shadow Mountain area, off Madison Avenue," U.S. Forest Service Battalion Chief Andy Menshek said.

About 50 to 100 structures were destroyed in Crest, just east of El Cajon, 10News reported.

Authorities were checking reports of structures newly burned on Olde Highway 80 near Spring View Court in Flinn Springs and the Garden Road neighborhood of Poway.

There were also reports of mandatory evacuations in the Alpine Heights area and as far east as Descanso.

Wayne Whalen, who watched the flames in the hills above his 5-year-old Santee neighborhood Sunday, said he hadn't seen firefighters for hours.

"If the wind stays the way it's going, we'll probably escape the bullet," Whalen said. "If the wind changes, we're screwed."

In Valley Center, a blazed dubbed the Paradise fire destroyed 57 homes and 103 outbuildings, a CDF dispatcher said. The Flames had scorched approximately 15,000 acres by last night, and containment was not expected until Oct. 30.

The Otay fire was burning toward Proctor Valley and Dulzura, also having charred an estimated 15,000 acres, according to 10News. No homes were immediately threatened.

A fourth fire, which broke out last week at the Camp Pendleton Marine base during live-fire exercises, had scorched 4,800 acres by this morning and was 75 percent contained.

Most of the deaths occurred as people tried to escape the fast-moving Cedar and Paradise fires early Sunday.

Three died on the Barona Indian Reservation, four died on Muth Valley Road off Wildcat Canyon Road, one died in a vehicle near the Valley Center fire station, one died on Yellow Brick Road in Valley Center, and two died at local hospitals.

The fires has forced the closures of most school and colleges throughout San Diego County.

[Pa' fuera]

The White House needs to shut up the bureaucrat, load the President on a plane, and land him in San Bernardino to directly address the suffering people of California. If I don't see him in person on the ground in the fire areas, he will not get ONE DIME from our family for his campaign.

and where is President Fox while all this is going on? When we he address his minions?

[BurbankKarl]

I have just heard that a brush fire has broken out in the Cuesta Grade area of San Luis Obispo....up on the mtn

[CedarDave]

Gray-out Davis on MSNBC now.

[Pa' fuera]

The girl on the right (who's on Fox Sports too) just said something about her "green card". Who the heck is the management stooge who keeps putting NON-Americans on our TV news programs? Who's plan is it to have NON US Citizens telling us what to think in the morning?

It's LA, she was probably giving a how-to lesson on immigration during her segment for benefit of the millions of Angelenos like her.

[Guenevere]

I'm wondering if I read the script correctly that scrawled across the screen...

...LA mayor says LA is not evacuating yet, and schools are open....

..but prepare to evacuate if need be.

Can this be right???

I know two young adult ladies who are children of my friends, here in Florida, and one lives in Torrance, and the other in North LA.

Should I be worried.....I can't reach one of the moms here in town to see if she knows anything.

Is LA that vulnerable?

And did anyone respond as to whether the Reagan Library is at risk--(in the Simi Valley)

[onyx]

I don't know. I've just realized I've slept for the past hour sitting in my computer chair. Not that I'm exhausted from the fires. :)

[BurbankKarl]

more political grandstanding....all the usual suspects.

[Weimdog]

Another info source here -

http://www.kfi640.com/firewatch.html