Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27

10/27/03 | Myself

[spectr17]

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

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"It's good to be the King" - Mel Brooks...

[spectr17]

Strike teams being staged at Glen Helen, some heading to Lytle creek if OPs approves

[PhiKapMom]

Cong Duncan Hunter lost his home as well!

[Gabz]

Gabz, you were in TV news, am I off base on this?

I have training in it - but I was in radio news. Immediate news - if permitted!!!

I'm seriously considering going back into it.

[lainie]

Come on up !!

[spectr17]

Highland is getting close to me. One town over. I can smell the smoke from there. I got my bug out bag ready in truck. I'm in the old part of town in the middle of city but after watching the fires burn down into SAn Bernardino more than once I'm ready to boogie as soon as they say get gone.

[lainie]

ohhh. learn something new every day!

[Gabz]

How hard would it be to put this detailed map on full screen, like a weather map, and have a reporter/anchor walk through with a pointer explaining what is happening/has happened at each location, building a complete picture of the real scope, history, pattern, and dynamics of the situation?

It would be a cakewalk to do it.

[PhilipFreneau]

>> I do not know him, I researched it and he is not practicing in SC.

Thanks. I always assumed he went back to San Clemente after the Navy.

[dogbyte12]

My wife is still at work in Northridge, just a skip over from Granada Hills. This really sucks.

[spectr17]

hey, i recognize that name

[PhiKapMom]

Used to live in the Upper Part of Yucaipa and shopped at the Redlands Mall when I didn't want to go into SB to shop.

Where are you in relation to the Mall?

[The KG9 Kid]

Best of luck and wishes to you and yours.

[spectr17]

welcome, how u doing down that way?

[Gabz]

Sleep well - you deserve it.

[spectr17]

East of REdlands Mall, by the University of Redlands

[archy]

Thanks for the excellent maps.

This is one shows EXACTLY what is wrong and what is missing from the national news coverage: detailed info.

I know that the producers will argue that its too detailed, unfamiliar, and won't hold the attention of those not from the area. But that is because they are so locked into programming to the level of a 3 year old with ADD. Too many news producers who are schooled in the infotainment/news magazine/drama and emotion school of broadcasting. Its all about flashing lots of images quickly, dramatic flames instead of precise info, shocking totals instead of precise info, pictures of women crying in front of their burned homes, instead of precise info. All have their place in news, but the actual news details are missing.

How hard would it be to put this detailed map on full screen, like a weather map, and have a reporter/anchor walk through with a pointer explaining what is happening/has happened at each location, building a complete picture of the real scope, history, pattern, and dynamics of the situation? It works with wars, weather, and even car chases. But noooo, the producers are so afraid that people will immediately switch the channel over to Baywatch. Yet if done well, the opposite would occur.

This is one case where I strongly fault Faux News Channel and their tabloid mentality. Its great that they include a conservative perspective, but their producers are from the flash and shock MTV-style entertainment mag side of the news biz.

Gabz, you were in TV news, am I off base on this?

WND editor-Publisher Joseph Farah will be on the Art Bell- George Noury *Coast to Coast* radio program tonight, discussing the Al-Quiada link to the California *wildfires*. I expect Tuesday morning's edition of WND should be quite interesting.

WND: Al-Qaida planned U.S. forest fires; FBI memo described plot to set blazes in the West

-archy-/-

[spectr17]

Miami 26
Charger 10

4rth

Safety for Miami just now

[abner]

Your effort has been a valuable asset for many of us without local coverage. Well done...

What Huckleberry said!