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]

Scanner information list from the other thread (thanks to spectr17):

Posted on 10/26/2003 9:52 PM PST by 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

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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

[Ladypixel]

Good list of California television stations at http://newslink.org/catele.html. KFI reporting that the Old Waterman fire is now considered 5 percent contained.

[restornu]

[Ladypixel]

KFI 640 reporting that the fire near Lake Arrowhead crossed the 18 freeway at the old Cliffhanger restaurant.

Local Firestorm relief phone numbers for San Diego County: 619-237-6309 or 619-542-7400


Incident: 0014 Type: Structure or Grass Fire
Location: ALPINE
Zoom Map: Click Here
Info as of: 10/27/2003 7:44:15 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:25PM - 86C; OLD 80 JWO SR79 - FIRE IS JWO 79 AND NORTH OF WB LANES



Incident: 0021 Type: Structure or Grass Fire
Location: SB 15 JSO MIRA MESA (SD area)
Zoom Map: 1209 5F
Info as of: 10/27/2003 7:45:03 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:38PM - CT HQ ADV OF OPENINGS
7:33PM - NB 163 TO EB 52 OPEN
7:29PM - R12;GET WORD TO MEDIA THAT THIS RD WILL BE CLOSED SANTO AT 52 ,, LOTS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO GET THRU
7:27PM - 1039 PD
7:27PM - 1039 PD
7:24PM - PLS NOTIFY PD, PEOPLE ARE PASSING SANTO AND THEY ARE TRYING TO GO W/WAY FRM SANTO OR SANTO TO EB
7:22PM - R12; BOTH 15 TO 52 ARE OPEN
7:10PM - CT SET UP A CLOSURE,, CONFIRM THIS IS ON BOTH ONR TO EB/WB GOING THRU THE CLOSURE

[Ladypixel]

From http://www.sannet.gov/newsflash/firealert.shtml

City of San Diego Emergency Fire Information
Last updated October 27, 2003, 7:30 p.m.

URGENT! In order to maintain enough water pressure to fight fires, residents MUST CONTINUE to conserve water. Use only what is absolutely necessary for health, cooking or for fire suppression. This is an urgent situation and we need the cooperation of all City of San Diego residents and businesses.

A major fire in the City of San Diego is threatening public safety and property in the Scripps Ranch community.

Please stay indoors and keep your windows shut. Curtail strenuous activities and breathe through a damp cloth if needed. Stay off the roads. Please stay tuned to local television or radio stations for immediate updates. If you are asked to evacuate, please do so immediately.

State Fire Map
To view a map of statewide fire activity created from satellite imagery, please click on the web link listed below.

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/archive/cgb2003300_0700.jpg

EVACUATION CENTERS/HOTLINE
The evacuated area is primarily in Scripps Ranch. Residents of Tierrasanta and San Carlos have been cleared to return to their homes. Only residents with proof of residency in those communities will be allowed in. The San Diego Fire Department will make the determination about when it is safe for residents to return to Scripps Ranch. Police and fire officials will not allow residents to return to their homes until they are confident that it is safe to do so.

There are two official Red Cross evacuation centers in the City of San Diego. They are:

Balboa Park Activity Center, 2145 Park Blvd in Balboa Park
Mira Mesa High School, 10510 Reagan Road in Mira Mesa
*** Qualcomm Stadium is NOT an official Red Cross evacuation center. Evacuees are asked to go to one of the above listed locations only.

Transit Services
The San Diego bus and trolley system is running normal service today in light of the area's fire emergency. Some bus routes are being detoured due to fire-related road closures. A list of transit detours is available on the transit website at www.sdcommute.com and also at transitosandiego.com.

The Regional Telephone Information Office is also open at 1-800-COMMUTE or 619-233-3004.

YMCA
All YMCAs in San Diego County are open with the exception of the Cameron Family YMCA in Santee. The Cameron Family YMCA is not open because of a power outage.

Any victims, volunteers, rescue workers or members of the media in need of a shower or place to freshen up can go to any one of the YMCAs throughout San Diego County.

For the location of the YMCA near you, please consult your yellow pages or visit www.YMCA.org or call (858) 292-4034.

Donations
No more donations of food or other items can be handled at the Balboa Park Activity Center. Anyone with donations is asked to take them to the St. Vincent de Paul store at 16th and Market.

Community Access Phone System
The City's Community Access Phone System (CAPS) has been activated at 619-570-1070. The CAPS line is for people to call for information about evacuation centers and other general information about the current status of the situation. The people who answer the phones will not have information about specific individuals and where they might be or whether specific homes/adresses have been burned.

INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLIC SERVICES FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 27, 2003
City Council meeting has been cancelled until further notice.
Building inspections will be available Tuesday for construction projects. Inspections will more than likely take place within 48 hours instead of the usual 24 hours.
The Development Services Permit Center and Inspection Offices at Ridgehaven will both be open on Tuesday.
Trash pickup will be delayed by one day the entire week (holiday schedule).
All City facilities will be closed, including, but not limited to the following:

City Council Offices
Community Service Centers
Inspection Field Office at Ridgehaven
Libraries
Permit Center
Planning Department
Recreation centers
Swimming pools
Torrey Pines and Balboa golf courses
INFORMATION FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES
All non-essential City of San Diego employees should NOT report to work, but should check with their supervisors on Tuesday morning.

Police Department
City of San Diego Police Department patrol officers who are responding to a call-back should follow these instructions:

If you live north of Northeastern Division, report to Northeastern Division.
If you live south of Highway 52, respond to your normal area station or to Traffic Division on Aero Road.
Water Department
All Water Operations personnel SHOULD report to work as scheduled.

American Red Cross
The American Red Cross advises that persons wishing to donate money to the fire disaster relief fund can call 1-800-HELPNOW or log on to their web site at www.sdarc.org/disaster. The Red Cross is not set up to accept donations of food. Volunteers are urgently needed. If you are able to volunteer, contact the Red Cross at the listed phone number.

Utilities
SDG&E is asking citizens to conserve energy any way they can, unless it is absolutely necessary for the elderly, the young, or those impacted by smoke. If air conditioners must be used for these reasons, set the temperature to a higher setting than normal. Further information is available at www.sdge.com. Also, to ensure continued water pressure in all areas, citizens are asked to conserve waster unless it is needed for fire suppression, cooking or health reasons. Businesses and residents are encouraged to shut down their irrigation systems during this emergency.

SDG&E is asking the public NOT to call 9-1-1 to report downed power lines or no electricity. The number to call is: 1-800-411-SDGE.
San Diego Unified School District Update
All San Diego City Schools will be closed Tuesday, October 28. This decision was made in part because of unhealthy air quality for students. There are no 6 to 6 programs.

Emergency Day care is available at the following middle schools:

Challenger Middle
Dana Middle
Keiller Middle
Kroc Middle
Marston Middle
Muirlands Middle
Pacific Beach Middle
Roosevelt Middle
Standley Middle
Taft Middle

The school district has established a hotline (619) 725-5578 for any questions. The Hotline is open until further notice.

If your child attends a parochial school or district outside the City of San Diego, please check with that school or district's administration offices.

EMERGENCY PET PREPAREDNESS
Friends of County Animal Shelters (FOCAS) is asking all pet owners who may be affected by the fire to put together a pet emergency kit in case of evacuation. For more information please call FOCAS voice mail at 619-685-3536 and a FOCAS volunteer will return your call.

Current City of San Diego Road Closures
State Route 52 between I-15 and State Route 125 is still closed.
For more information, go to www.chp.ca.gov.

Federal, State and County Courts
All courts will be closed on Tuesday.

[united1000]

Not with a PDF file, and they are fairly large, causing the slow to open. Also you need to have an adobe acrobat reader to open them. I'll look and see what else I can find.

[Ladypixel]

Incident: 1697 Type: Report of Fire
Location: EB SR210 AT MOUNTAIN AV (Rancho Cucamonga area)
Zoom Map: 571 5J Info as of: 10/27/2003 7:56:06 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:53PM - 1039 FD ENRT
7:51PM - POWER POLE ON FIRE



Update on Fire near UPLAND:

Incident: 2938 Type: Structure or Grass Fire
Location: 16TH JWO BENSON
Zoom Map: Click Here
Info as of: 10/27/2003 7:57:35 PM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:54PM - UNIT IS 1023 - NEW 1020, FIRE IS NORTH OF THE FWY (NOT SOUTH OF), JUST EAST OF THE BASELINE EXIT, ABOUT 1000 FT NORTH OF THE FRWY, STILL IN UPLAND
7:44PM - 1039 UPLAND FD
7:43PM - PLZ ROLL UPLAND FIRE FOR TELEPHONE POLE ON FIRE IN FIELD

RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS
7:43PM - CHP Unit On Scene



Border Communications Center
Number of Incidents: 17 Last Updated at: 10/27/2003 7:58:45 PM
No. Time Type Location Area
1034 7:57PM Structure or Grass Fire BOCC Border Comm Center
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:57PM - RP ADV SMOKE

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[Ladypixel]

San Diego evacuation information from KFMB-TV in San Diego:

(10-27-2003) - UPDATED - 7:25 p.m. Authorities have begun allowing residents of the East County neighborhood of San Diego Country Estates, east of Ramona, to return to their homes. They will be re-entering via Old Julian Highway.

UPDATED - 5 p.m. The San Diego Sheriff's Department says residents are currently being evacuated from parts of Julian, Ramona, and the Rincon Indian Reservation.

Areas of Julian: Harrison Park, Pine Hills and North Peak

Other areas include:
Griffith Rd & Keys Rd. in Ramona
Rancho Jamul Estates
Johnson Lake & Rocoso - Eucalyptus Hills
Guejito and Lake Wohlford
Oakdale
Rincon Reservation
13900 block of Woods Valley Rd
The northeast area of Ramona

Only residents will be allowed into the recently opened streets in the Scripps Ranch area. The streets listed in the area South and East of Pomerado Road will remain closed and residents will not be allowed back until deemed safe by the San Diego Fire Department.

Remaining closed indefinitely for safety reasons is the area South and East of Pomerado Road, Avenida Magnifica, Scripps Trails, Oakbend Drive, Elderwood Road and South of Spring Canyon Road.

UPDATED - 3:26 p.m.The San Diego Fire Department says residents evacuated from
Tierrasanta and San Carlos may return to their homes, according to police. Only those with proof of residency will be allowed into the areas.

UPDATED – 11:53 a.m. The sheriff's department has begun mandatory evacuations in the area of Paradise Mountain and Hellhole Canyon in the Valley Center Area.

Authorities advise residents in these neighborhoods not to wait for a sheriff's unit to make an announcement, please leave the area immediately.

The evacuation center for valley center is St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 450 S Stagecoach Lane in Fallbrook.

UPDATED - 11:41 a.m.

The Escondido Fire Department has ordered it necessary to evacuate of the following streets that surround the Eagle Crest Golf Club (area on the south east portion of the City of Escondido accessed by Cloverdale Rd):

Holly Oak Pl, Rosewood Lane
Mesa Oak Pl, Wild Oak Lane
Ranch View Place

The emergency shelter for this incident is the Escondido High School (1500 block of N. Broadway) and the phone number is 760-291-4034.

Officers from EPD are responding to the above areas and advising residents to leave.

[united1000]

Go to this yahoo map link.  You can zoom in and move in different directions. Move to the east toward Lake Gregory,  which is where the fire is into the Highlands area, I believe.

 

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=&csz=Lake%20Arrowhead+California&Country=us

 

You can also go to mapquest.

[Ladypixel]

According to KCAL 9, flames still visible in the hills above Devore. However, the flames are burning upward and away from the residential areas.

[Ladypixel]

Simi Valley fire jumps 118 freeway (courtesy abc7.com)

SANTA CLARITA — The Simi Valley fire which has already blackened 90 thousand+ acres has now jumped the 118 freeway. 

Fire officials say the fire is now heading south towards Bell Canyon, a populated residential area. 

Flames are threatening a tony enclave of suburban homes, about 35 miles north of Los Angeles. 

Meanwhile, Simi Valley officials have closed schools in the city. 

Earlier, in San Bernardino County, the 'Old Fire' jumped the 18 freeway in the Crestline area, destroying 25 new homes. 

That fire has already destroyed more than 400 homes. 

Authorities are seeking two men they say may have started one of the two San Bernardino fires. 

Officials say one man was seen Saturday morning throwing something into roadside brush that caught fire. They say he and a companion then fled in a van. 

Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties are under a state of emergency. 

[Ladypixel]

Several communities in the San Bernardino mountains may experience a loss of power from SCE due to high winds, according to abc7.com. SCE says they may turn off the power as a safety measure to prevent brush fires from being ignited by downed lines - communities include Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, Idyllwild and Running Springs.

[Ladypixel]

KFI reporting that Porter Ranch residents are now under evacuation conditions due to the Simi Valley fire.

[Ladypixel]

Scanner reports from other thread (courtesy of spectr17, thank you for listening to the scanners!!):

FF at Plunge Creek near Highland by water tank are firing backfires

FF stuck in dozer powder, digging out since she won't go no mo, even with 4wd

Fire Stategy meeting underway for tonight/tommorrow

Edison clearing downed power lines on hwy 330 below Lake Arrowhead, could be delays up that route for FFs



New fire report from other thread, as posted by BurbankKarl:

New Fire inside San Fernando Valley....

858.4375

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