Sothern California is on Fire again

[TObject]

Of particular notice we have a Malibu fire in LA:
http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/

And Which Creek and Harris fires in San Diego County:

http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/
http://www.nbc739.com/

Last time it took the fire one night to reach from where it is now, the Santa Ysabel - Ramona area, to where I live in Tierrasanta. I am not evacuating yet, just charging camcorder batteries, and making a list of things to pack.

[Paradiddle]

There appears to be a nasty one on the 241 as well - not sure where but big time smoke over here.

Nice that the $10 per day I pay to go to work doesn't pay for them to do any controlled burns and maintenance of the brush.

[TObject]

The air conditions here have quickly deteriorated. I sealed the house and got the respirators out.

Downtown Ramona is burning.

Once it gets to Poway or to Lakeside (depending on winds), I am starting to load the truck with belongings.

[Matt Pascoe]

With several more days of Santa Anas... Roll the dice. If the Ramona fire heads down San Pasqual, I'll be packing. There is no good direction for it to turn.

[Jeff Weston]

I'm sitting in my living room, probably 40+ miles from the nearest fire and it smells like I'm burning wood in my own fireplace and the flue is closed. P.U. Things may get pretty gnarly if we get some rain this year with the increased runoff and debris flow.

[TObject]

Matt,

They are estimating the fire to enter the San Pasqual valley around 2 in the morning. Fortunately, there is a lot of green there, so they hope that will slow down the fire.

[speaceman]

All the firefighting air craft were flying over my house today to refuel at van nuys.

The smoke from malibu was covering most of the sky in the valley.

Pretty nuts.

[Matt Pascoe]

Originally Posted by TObject

Matt,

They are estimating the fire to enter the San Pasqual valley around 2 in the morning. Fortunately, there is a lot of green there, so they hope that will slow down the fire.

3:45am now, cant see fire in the valley, but I have NEVER seen winds like this here. Must be gusting over 50MPH.

[Matt Pascoe]

We just got the evac order, unplugging ther computer... seeya

[Scott Hill]

we are under manditory evacuation and am heading to my father-in-law's house you can contact me if you need to at 909-895-9961

[Jeff McRae]

Crestline - The California Highway Patrol has closed all mountain roadways, including Highway 18, 330, 138, and 173, to non-residents. Any residents returning to the mountains will be required to show proof-of-residency such as a drivers license, utility bill, or other identifying document. An evacuation center has been established at the Jerry Lewis Center in Highland for all evacuees.

Air command has begun discussing using the DC-10 tanker to make high altitude drops from about 300 feet above the targets.

[Desert Fox]

Matt and Jerry. I live in NW Escondido and have not received the evacuation call and neither have my neighbors. We have the van packed and are ready to put the cats in their cages on a moments notice. Are you going to the Escondido HS Evac center?

Fred

[Jerry Bransford]

Not sure where we'll go at this point Fred. Some in the area are just going to various shopping center parking lots so if we don't head up to Orange County like my first thoughts were, we'll just move into our tent trailer in one of the bigger local parking lots like the North County Fair/Westfield mall parking lot. The news is saying to do that if you have a trailer or an RV. We're pretty self-sufficient for the time being.

[Rockjeep]

The fire is getting bad up here. Green valley down to running springs is evacuated and it headed that way. Scott lets us know if you need trailers there to get your stuff out.
Kory

[Paradiddle]

Jesus. I hope everyone is okay.

The fire got down near the El Toro Marine Base and burned a lot of North Irvine - that row of Eucalyptus trees along Irvine Blvd/Sandcastle. Pretty scary.

The 241 was closed. The bull**** thing about the OC fire is it was arson - some asshat started something in or around Santiago Canyon per the news.

They need to flay the skin off those bastards with a dull butter knife if they catch them.

Stay safe everyone - let me know if I can help.

Jeff

[Macgyver]

Originally Posted by Scott Hill

we are under manditory evacuation and am heading to my father-in-law's house you can contact me if you need to at 909-895-9961

We just heard on the local radio that all areas west of the Big Bear dam are up for mandatory evacuation. Pretty much everything east of the dam (BBL, BBC, Baldwin, etc. is just waiting. Since the other fire a few weekd ago, we are looking good so far. Also a note lots of Running Springs houses are gone. Air quality is decent in Big Bear, we ar looking okay for now unless the fires come back. Right now they are going down toward highland.

Also of interest, the forrest is CLOSED to use, anything dirt up here is off limits due to the threat of Big Bear going.

[zman]

Wishing you all a safe passage thru this mess. Hopefully the weather will calm down soon so things can get back under control.

BTW, is the Jeep BBS Forum going to have an issues with the fire?

zman

[Lawrence]

A Canadian water bomber is on its way down from BC. The Mars can pick up 7,000 gallons of water on the fly in about 25 seconds, and be back over a fire in as little as 10 minutes.

Originally Posted by Lawrence

A Canadian water bomber is on its way down from BC. The Mars can pick up 7,000 gallons of water on the fly in about 25 seconds, and be back over a fire in as little as 10 minutes.

SoCal burns, like what, every year? How come there isn't one or two of those sitting in SD ready to go, so we don't have to have one fly down all the way from Canada?

Hope everyone is safe.

[Macgyver]

Originally Posted by Macgyver

We just heard on the local radio that all areas west of the Big Bear dam are up for mandatory evacuation. Pretty much everything east of the dam (BBL, BBC, Baldwin, etc. is just waiting. Since the other fire a few weekd ago, we are looking good so far. Also a note lots of Running Springs houses are gone. Air quality is decent in Big Bear, we ar looking okay for now unless the fires come back. Right now they are going down toward highland.

Also of interest, the forrest is CLOSED to use, anything dirt up here is off limits due to the threat of Big Bear going.

Quick Big Bear update.........

The smoke has finally arrived here at the shop. The fire isn't here, it's still way down by the Green Valley and Butler fire area. Since the wind shifted now all the smoke is blowing into Big Bear, hopefully the fire wont follow. Great news about Matt's family and house!

[chef]

Hope the good news keeps coming...

[blkTJ]

Originally Posted by chef

Hope the good news keeps coming...

agreed!!!!