SoCal Fire News Live Thread 10/27 - News updates/pics only!

My personal list of news and info on the California firestorms | 10/27/2003 | ladypixel

[Ladypixel]

Again, let's keep this as a fire-news only thread, pretty please? Much as I understand the discussion, I'm more interested on what's actually happening, rather than theories of what should or could be happening. Thanks!

[Unknown Freeper]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008708/posts

[Ladypixel]

Yeah, but the last six hundred posts on that thread haven't had news; they've had debates of whether Bush and Schwarzenegger should or should not be at the fire zones, or complaints about Gray Davis.

It's no longer a news thread... therefore, I started a news thread.

[Ladypixel]

Fire has jumped Hwy 18 in Lake Arrowhead. Reports of homes burning.

[Ladypixel]

Report of a fire in the Riverside area at 7251 Jurupa Road. Field on fire at 6:31pm. No further info avail.

Report of a fire starting at Interstate 5 at Tuxford near the onramp, just north of Penrose St. Report as of 6:29pm. No further info avail.

[tomball]

Deadly Calif. Fires Threaten 30,000 Homes

Oct 27, 5:31 PM (ET)

By SETH HETTENA

(AP) Ken Hunt, from the Camp Pendleton Fire Department, battles a wildfire while trying to save homes in...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ash fell on the beach like snow and drivers turned on their headlights in the smoky daytime streets Monday as wildfires that have reduced entire neighborhoods to moonscapes skipped through the hills of Southern California and threatened 30,000 more homes.

California's deadliest outbreak of fires in more than a decade has destroyed at least 1,100 homes, killed at least 13 people and consumed more than 400,000 acres stretching from the Mexican border to the suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.

The dry, hot Santa Ana winds that have fanned the flames began to ease Monday, raising hopes that overwhelmed firefighters could make progress with the help of reinforcements on their way from other Western states. But the danger was still high. . . . .

This is an exerpt from the artical as found here: 

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031027/D7UEPPA80.html

 

 

 

[ex-Texan]

Over 1,000 Homes, 425,000 Acres Burned. This was due to arson and therefore is terrorism.

[Ladypixel]

KABC reports tens of thousands of SoCal customers without power, with no end in sight, related to wildfire damage.

All San Bernardino Unified School District schools closed tomorrow. Cal State University Northridge cancelling tonight's evening classes due to the Simi Valley fire.

[Ladypixel]

Satellite photos available of SoCal region at NOAA website. Don't believe they're realtime, but there's recent images available.

[Ladypixel]

Inland Communications Center

Incident: 1570 Type: Report of Fire
Location: INLAND
Zoom Map: 575 1H Info as of: 10/27/2003 6:47:17 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
6:44PM - 330 HAS WIRES DOWN ACROSS IT AND ALSO A BULL DOZER PUSHING DIRT ACROSS THE RDWY

RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS
6:44PM - CHP Unit On Scene
6:45PM - CHP Unit On Scene
6:46PM - CHP Unit Enroute

[Ladypixel]

Border Communications Center


Incident: 0014 Type: Structure or Grass Fire
Location: ALPINE
Zoom Map: Click Here
Info as of: 10/27/2003 6:55:24 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
6:52PM - PER SDSO FROM VIEWPOINT TO JAPATUAL FIRE IS APPROACHING FWY

[oceanperch]

And maps too.

Wetting this thead to find my way back.

[Ladypixel]

NOAA satellite maps, realtime, available at this site. You can specify the area of SoCal that you wish to look at once the page has loaded. Maps show current hotspots and smoke paths.

[CyberAnt]

Tonight on KUSI - the weather guy said the Santa Ana winds have all but gone. The winds are very calm. We still have fires at Alpine and Otay Mesa. But .. with the humidity imporving and the winds calming down, this should improve very quickly.

There will be a small resurgence in the morning from the northeast, but early in the day the winds will shift to ONSHORE - blowing the smoky haze to the east toward Arizona by early afternoon.

[Ladypixel]

To the best of my knowledge, they're burning on the western edge of Lake Arrowhead. However, I'm waiting for a current report as to what addresses.

[gcruse]

This was due to arson and therefore is terrorism.

Does such hyperbole make you feel kewl or something?

[Ladypixel]

Incident: 0004 Type: Media Information
Location: FIRE CLOSURE INFO
Zoom Map: Click Here
Info as of: 10/27/2003 6:58:37 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
6:48PM -
6:48PM - OLD JULIAN HWY IS NOW OPEN
6:46PM -
6:46PM - OLD JULIAN AT VISTA RAMONA IS NOW OPEN
6:34PM -
6:34PM - SAN VICENTE AT WARNOCK IS NOW OPEN
6:18PM -
6:18PM - *** THERE IS NO ACCESS TO CREST AT THIS TIME ****
5:53PM -
5:53PM - PINE VALLEY AND SUNRISE HWY ON-RAMPS TO I-8 ARE NOW OPEN