• NEW MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER IN LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE. The
LA County Fire Department has reissued and expanded a mandatory
evacuation order for the following streets:
• Highrim Rd
• Manistee Dr
• Derwood Dr
• Bristow Dr
• Normanton Dr (NEW)
• Earnslow Dr (NEW)
• Fairhurst Dr (NEW)
• Rock Castle Dr (NEW)
• Canalda Dr (NEW)
• Ocean View Blvd (n/o Canalda Dr) (NEW)
NEW MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER (IN LA CRESCENTA) – The
following area will remain or are now under the mandatory evacuation order
issued by the LA County Fire Department:
• East of Pennsylvania Ave
• North of Orange Ave
• West of La Crescenta boundary with La Cañada Flintridge (Pickens
Canyon area)
Remaining closed in Altadena: the areas e/o Fair Oaks Ave and n/o Loma
Alta Dr
From Wildlandfire Hotlist...
Update per KCAL-TV.....the authorities refuse to go in to rescue these people now as the situation is way too dangerous and they had been warned and refused to accept common sense and wisdom and how they are in trouble hunkering down in a cabin.
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Originally Posted by derkimster
Not rumors....spokesman at the ICP at Hansen Dam spoke of this live on KCAL-TV.
He was mad as a wet hen about it as these civilians had been admonished to leave and refused and then they were now yelling over the phone that they wanted to be rescued.
This would now be only possible by helicopter, thus needlessly endangering the firefighters involved in the rescue and taking that helicopter away from what it was supposed to be doing fighting the fire.
Thanks for the info on the La Canada website. We had been watching it, but didn’t know it had La Crescenta info. Thankfully we are 3 blocks below the mandatory evacuation area.
Today we could see the backfires set & they raced up the brush & then would die back when hitting an area already burned. However, the wind has come up in the last hour & we are seeing some serious smoke. It looks like it is in the Pickens Cyn on the LaCanada/La Crescenta border.
To lighten the mood somewhat, the “InciWeb” for the Station Fire had the following: “Steep terrain, decadent old growth brush and hot dry weather are factors that drive fire activity.” I knew the brush was decades old, but had no idea it was decadent too. :o)
Thanks all who are praying for our areas & for the families of the firefighters.
BK - do you or does anyone else know how things are in Tujunga itself? I have good friends who live on Tujunga Cyn Blvd, can’t get ahold of them right now.
Am nervous.