Posted on 10/22/2007 9:59:31 AM PDT by Smogger
9:03 a.m.: Fires in Lake Arrowhead prompt evacuations
By Stacia Glenn
LAKE ARROWHEAD - Two fires are raging in the mountains, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. A wildfire started at 5 a.m. in Grass Valley just north of Lake Arrowhead and has burned more than 100 acres. Mandatory evacuations are in place for Deer Lodge Park, north of Aleutian Drive; and all streets north of Brentwood Drive.
There are voluntary evacuations for North Lake Arrowhead, along Grass Valley Road, Twin Peaks and Rim Forest.
A second fire, dubbed the Slide Fire, broke out in Green Valley Lake, where there is also a mandatory evacuation.
All highways west of Big Bear Dam are closed.
9:27 a.m.: Fire ecologist: Wind stirred Butler II fire
By George Watson
UCR Riverside Prof. Richard Minnich said it appears the Butler II wildfire has restarted because of the winds. "It looks like there are two prongs moving southwest," Minnich said. "One is by (Big Bear )Dam, and the other is near Green Valley Lake where the fire stopped before."
Making his assessments by viewing satellite imagery, Minnich said he is particularly concerned about Running Springs. Wind could push it through the footprint of the 1970 Bear Fire, Minnich said, and then on to that community.
"If it reaches Running Springs, that whole town is in trouble," he said.
With so many fires burning throughout Southern California today, Minnich added, "Hundreds of homes are going to burn today. Right now, the issue is the firefighters are spread too thinly."
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I don’t know much about the area but if you know what is going to happen, why not try some preemptive action?
Too dry and dangerous even without the Santa Anna to try controlled burns. They only do it when they are desperate. This fire is in a dense moutainous Area.
You know this is in Kalifornia, right? Enviro-whackos would never allow such a thing!...............
I don’t know much about the area but if you know what is going to happen, why not try some preemptive action?
Good questions, but I wonder if the greens and such have tied the state up environmentally to where things like this aren't an option.
Mandatory evacuations for Running Springs, Arrowbear, and Green Valley.
I used to live in the Villa’s off of HY 18 in Arrowhead. Does anyone know any news about this area?
They are really not reporting on this fire yet. Fires in Malibu are more glamorous.
I used to live in area. Fire rules are extremely enforced.
Well, I am in Tenn., and miss my mountains.
All my California relatives wonder how we can live in Hurricane Alley - our response is that at least we get some warning. No wildfires, mudslides, or earthquakes.
Residents lined up at a Shell gas station in Twin Peaks, some with their vehicles packed with their belongings. Tamra Porter, 23, had her vehicle packed up and was getting gas. She planned to head to Jensen's grocery store in Blue Jay where she expected to meet up with her husband, Josh, a worker at the store.
They planned to go stay at Josh Porter's mother's house in Menifee. The Porters were under voluntary evacuation. Bruce Hicks, 71, who was filling up his tank at the station said he thought the fire was burning away from his home. "I'm not going until they tell me I have to go," he said.
Liberals should be forced by Algore to rebuild smaller, carbon-free homes!
BUMP!
Ya but, there isn’t blue tarps and plywood window treatments!
Now I am getting homesick. Jensen’s grocery makes the best sheapheard bread in the country. Waaaaaaaaa I wanna go home!
“”All my California relatives wonder how we can live in Hurricane Alley - our response is that at least we get some warning. No wildfires, mudslides, or earthquakes.””
I always said the same thing about warnings/lack of in Southern CA. We have been through all of that.....Left Southern CA last year for GA - now we’re in time for the drought!
Carolyn
We are about 18 inches low for the year, but it is raining for the first time in a long time today.
I am in West Tenn., so it is flat as a pancake here. The Blue ridge’s are beautiful, and so are the Smokey’s in East Tenn.
CDF spokesman Glenn Barley said there are reports that structures are on fire as a result of both mountain blazes but they don't know exactly where yet.
Air support cannot be used because winds are too high, Barley said.
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