Posted on 09/07/2020 6:07:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
The El Dorado Fire had burned up the south side Yucaipa Ridge above the communities of Oak Glen and the North Bench area of Yucaipa, fire officials said Sunday. After cresting Yucaipa Ridge, the blaze was threatening the communities of Mountain Home Village and Forest Falls.
No injuries have been reported. An outbuilding was destroyed on Saturday, but no other damage was reported as of Sunday afternoon even though about 30 homes were threatened by the fire.
Evacuation orders have been issued for the communities of Oak Glen, Forest Falls and Mountain Home Village. A portion of North Bench Yucaipa also was evacuated. Red Cross set up a temporary evacuation facility at the Yucaipa Community Center, located at 34-900 Oak Glen Road.
Fire officials reminded those traveling over the holiday weekend of the following road closures:
Highway 38: Northbound Highway 38 is closed at Bryant Avenue and southbound Highway 38 is closed at the town of Angelus Oaks. Oak Glen Road is closed at Pine Bench Rd on the east and Cherry Croft/Jefferson on the west.
Outdoor recreation areas closed, including: Vivian Creek, Momyer, San Bernardino Peak, Falls picnic area and Thurman Flats picnic area. The Mill Creek drainage and off-trail areas of the San Gorgonio Wilderness south of the San Bernardino Peak Divide Trail also were closed.
Officials asked that residents heed evacuation warnings and travelers stay clear of the fire area.
"We need to keep the firefighters we do have focused on firefighting and not on managing people," fire officials said in a joint release Sunday.
Oak Tree Mountain, a year-round recreation area, shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and again on Aug. 1 because of the Apple Fire. It reopened for three hours Saturday before once again closing, this time due to the El Dorado Fire, owner Precious Dykstra said.
Firefighters assured her they had a handle on things, but Dykstra remained worried Sunday as she watched the fire burn nearby. She wasn’t as concerned about her business, though, as much as she was about her community losing its ambiance to the fire.
“It’s here. It’s burning the hill,” she said. “I feel okay, but Oak Glen is not okay.”
Fire crews focused on structure protection, using retardant and water drops to build line around the fire, the Forest Service said.
A line of retardant separates the flames from Dan Mracek’s home at the bottom of a mountainside. He stayed up all night watching the fire and it was “very nerve-wracking,” but he was confident by Sunday morning that his home was safe.
Nonetheless, he evacuated his home in order to stay out of the way of firefighters who remained active nearby. And like Dykstra, he was mostly concerned about the fire’s impact on the community as a whole.
“You’re not going to see that pretty mountain any more,” he said. “It’s sad to see it go.”
The El Dorado Fire is burning just two miles from where the Apple Fire ravaged 33,000 acres last month, and fire officials said it would work to their advantage if the El Dorado Fire entered the burn scar.
The Apple Fire, which had been 95% contained for weeks, was ignited July 31 by a diesel-fueled vehicle "emitting burning carbon from the exhaust system," investigators said.
Area temperatures are expected to surpass 110 degrees near Yucaipa as Southern California is engulfed in a heatwave.
On Saturday, temperatures peaked at 122 degrees in Palm Springs and similar conditions are expected Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
Article doesn’t mention if it was a boy or a girl.
Or an attack helicopter.
Heat from the fires are increasing the area temperatures.
122 degree day. Global warming crooks won’t note that the “global warming” experienced that day is from a fire and not sun based atmospheric temperature.
Well did the non-binary person finally reveal if they were male or female?
It’s CA so I had to ask
I thought gender reveal parties were for expecting mothers to announce what sex their expected child is.
But seeing as it is California, it may now be forbidden to declare the sex of a child until said child has watched sufficient GayBDisney programming to declare that HeShe is actually the opposite of whatever sex HisHer genitals are.
“You’re not going to see that pretty mountain any more,” he said. “It’s sad to see it go.”
I’m pretty sure the mountain is still there, and the trees will grow back.
In view of the circumstances, if it's a boy, name him "Bernie." If it's a girl, name her "Ashley."
I thought gender reveal parties were for expecting mothers to announce what sex their expected child is.
They are LOL
I had always thought that that was just a polite way of referring to a strip-tease show.
Regards,
That was slightly funny, yet horrible at the same time.
GR parties are pretty lame imo....but in a tinderbox fuel rich environment something would have started it anyway...
>>I had always thought that that was just a polite way of referring to a strip-tease show.
These days that could reveal something you DON’T intend to see.
Chicago City Council relaxing restrictions on topless dancing following trans woman’s lawsuit
Metro Weekly ^ | 8/28/2020 | John Reilly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3878695/posts
After quite a few years yes.
I saw some Texas hillside that years later was still black.
I guess I’m old. Why would someone want to know the sex of their baby. It’s one of the greatest suprises in your life.
It’s cute when you’re a baby. Let an old dude do that, though...
Or Ashton and Bernadine
I see pink, so they have a gay son?
It was Pat.
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