Southern California Fires -- Live Thread 10/29

[Diddle E. Squat]

Perhaps the weather service is in a reactive mode, but there are fire weather watches and red flag warnings for much of central and north Texas and southern and western OK.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/

[heleny]

Meanwhile, the strikes continue. Fools.

At a Ralphs in La Jolla (affected only by smoke from the San Diego fires) yesterday, the strikers were issued N95 masks, which filter 95% of 1 micron particles and are much better than the one-strap dust masks such as those in the picture you posted of Vons strikers.

Those strikers aren't getting any press, and they're only harming themselves with exposure to the smoky air if they're downwind. The wind direction is different today. Here are pictures of the smoke from the last two days:

AP / NASA
A NASA satellite image shows smoke from the wildfires burning in Southern California drifting miles out over the Pacific Ocean, on Tuesday.

Associated Press
Smoke from various wildfires around Los Angeles and Southern California, captured by NASA's Aqua satellite, drifts over the Pacific Ocean on Monday. The fires are marked with a red outline.

[BreitbartSentMe]

yeah, I second that, they are better than the local alphabet channels' coverage

[PhiKapMom]

WOW! It really has moved east if it is all the way to the dam area of Big Bear.

Channel 4 saying all SoCal residents should remove the ash from their car ASAP according to AAA as it is highly corrosive!

[spectr17]

CH 9 was showing Squints Ranch NE of Lake Arrowhead about to burn. BJ or somebody is manning the dozers cutting a fire breaks like a madman. Go BJ go.

[24-7Freeper]

Any word on Phelan? Are they under manditory evac? My sister in-law lives there and teaches at Sultan HS in Hesperia. Schools closed & her last email said she's still at home as of 10am PDT. Any update would be greatly appreciated.

[null and void]

Looks like darn good progress.

[Conservative4Ever]

great shots...shows the world just how dry things are here in SoCal.

[Mrs.Liberty]

Just saw a fixed wing dump water...it is about time that heliocopter got some help...actually I see two helos now as well as the airplane. Good thing too...those flames are getting closer and more omnous to Julian.

[Mrs.Liberty]

omnous=ominous

[CedarDave]

And much of NM, also.

[spectr17]

Squints is the place that has the airstrip near Deep Creek.

Poor BJ, fires have burned around him 3 or 4 times over the past few years

[PhiKapMom]

We have winds in Norman and it has been dry for weeks out in the county although my lawn is still really green -- never stopped growing this summer.

NWS here in Norman issued the red flag/wind alert warnings earlier today for OK and TX. They have also been providing info to the FF's in CA about wind conditions including shifting, etc.

[BurbankKarl]

I paid for the live365 feed and it keeps booting me off...I am on the big bear feed now...

[wolficatZ]

Squints Ranch airstrip 2 mi NE of Arrowhead; people gathered there with vehicles\animals\horse trailers, etc; Cessna trying to land..fire is 30 min away

[Positive]

"The local SD FOx channel is doing an excellent job. I have been watching their coverage of the stand at Julian for the past couple of hours.

The FCC has the "sphere of influence" thing, so when you watch LA tv stations they show/tell you very little of the San Diego fire crisis, I assume the same can be said about the SD tv stations vis a vis the LA area.

As a news viewer it's disappointing but then it's government.

[PhiKapMom]

How are you doing?

[ErnBatavia]

IIRC, Phelan is miles to the west of the 15...close to Wrightwood. No activity there that I've heard about; the Wrightwood area is probably on tap for the next round of Santa Anas - unfortunately, this is really early in the season of the Santa Ana; I'm afraid we're going to see some re-runs, just in different areas, in the coming 6 or 8 weeks.

[spectr17]

okay, taking my union break *L*, cough, cough wheez. Smoke still falling here and ash.

[Toidylop]

Current fires from NOAA