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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk” helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-16 00:05:30 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:16:51 -0400, Davoud wrote: Savageduck: Why would I need a Flickr account when I have perfectly good Dropbox and Adobe CC accounts. http://adobe.ly/2aMzRmB Why would you send potential viewers to Dropbox, a clumsy way to share photos, when you have the Adobe account? I don't know why you think its clumsy. See the following photograph of a snow leopard, a crop taken from an iPad image shot through a spotting scope. It's a long way away. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/IMG_0224.JPG What's clumsy about that? It isn't what David would do. PeterN: So people can make such helpful comments as: "beautiful;" and you can get more spam. Why else?l" So that family and friends who are interested can easily find and view your photographs. So that Encyclopedia of Life and the Maryland Biodiversity Project can harvest certain of your photos if they so desire. They don't harvest from Dropbox or Adobe accounts. Can't comment on the spam. I haven't received a single piece of spam via Yahoo mail in the many years I have had a Yahoo mail account. Of course, I've never sent a piece of e-mail from my Yahoo account or used it to register for another web account. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-16 00:18:17 +0000, Tony Cooper said:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:45:16 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk” helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crw to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg Sorry to learn it's so close. We are having our share of fire in NW Yolo County. Now a big one up at Clear Lake. Good photos of a bad thing, btw. I've spent the last couple of hours draining my swimming pool down 3 inches. The every-afternoon heavy rains have over-filled the pool and water was lapping over the edge. No interesting photographs, though. I don't think I'll trade my problems for the Duck's. Right now we would welcome your problems. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-16 00:41:26 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had “sheltered in place” because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 “Firehawk” helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg The latest report has the growth up to 5,400 acres with 10% containment. They are currently making a helicopter lift extraction of an injured firefighter from a section inaccessible by road. For now the fire is burning to the West which is away from where I am. Our local firehouse, which is about 200 yards from my house, has become an equipment staging area, with strike teams rotating in and out and 2 dozers on transporters on standby in their vehicle yard. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:41:26 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had ?sheltered in place? because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 ?Firehawk? helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg Thanks. That first shot was what I needed. You seem to lie on the border of two meteorological regions. One says SE changing to SW 10-15 mph. The other says ENE. That last one might worry you. What is your understanding of what is predicted? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-16 02:05:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:41:26 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had ?sheltered in place? because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 ?Firehawk? helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg Thanks. That first shot was what I needed. You seem to lie on the border of two meteorological regions. One says SE changing to SW 10-15 mph. The other says ENE. That last one might worry you. What is your understanding of what is predicted? For now we are getting plenty of smoke and the wind should settle down after dark. Here are a batch of shots that were on our local NBC TV news channel, KSBY. Not great quality images, but they convey the seriousness of the situation. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ewzentbrjnyy24/AADRTLC6xILThCE7WOkYJj6ra?dl=0 -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 2016-08-16 02:55:27 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-16 02:05:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:41:26 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had ?sheltered in place? because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 ?Firehawk? helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg Thanks. That first shot was what I needed. You seem to lie on the border of two meteorological regions. One says SE changing to SW 10-15 mph. The other says ENE. That last one might worry you. What is your understanding of what is predicted? For now we are getting plenty of smoke and the wind should settle down after dark. Here are a batch of shots that were on our local NBC TV news channel, KSBY. Not great quality images, but they convey the seriousness of the situation. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ewzentbrjnyy24/AADRTLC6xILThCE7WOkYJj6ra?dl=0 This morning the fire is burning to the South-West and has grown to 7,300 acres. 40 houses have been burned, 6 damaged, with a total of 232 structures threatened. Most interesting is, the Western edge, which is the direction of growth is now closer to Hearst Castle (5.25 miles) than the Eastern perimeter is to my house (6 miles). Hearst Castle has cancelled some tours and is limiting the number of visitors. Additional strike teams have been brought in from Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. So we have 2,270 fire personnel engaged, 165 fire engines, 8 airtankers, 13 helicopters, 28 bulldozers, and 34 water tenders working. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A New Fire This Evening
On 8/17/2016 11:54 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-08-16 02:55:27 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-16 02:05:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:41:26 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 23:59:08 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:42:33 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On 8/15/16 PDT 3:38 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:25:24 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-15 03:49:23 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 22:19:32 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-14 21:41:53 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:53:22 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-14 09:28:05 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700, Savageduck wrote: This evening we had another fire break out about 6 miles west of us. The various fire attack tankers have been flying missions until they lost light. It looks like the ground crews are going to be busy all through the night. https://db.tt/toKTw9em https://db.tt/KsrBEYN8 https://db.tt/ltkyoZCw https://db.tt/bCsOY5yn https://db.tt/o2Oy2Syv https://db.tt/e4DExwGO Arson? Lightning? What? They haven't reported on that yet, the investigation is still underway. All anybody knows is it started ±16:00 on Saturday and they expect it to gro to about 2,200 acres. There are about 100 homes in that area and most of them are under a mandatory evacuation order. Also, there are about 20 other homes which have been cut off by the fire, and those residents have a "shelter in place" order as their access roads run through the fire line. Not nice. I am monitoring the CalFire radio transmissions, and things have got worse. They are bringing in more air attack tankers as a priority as they now have some firefighters and residents cut off from evacuation, and they are anticipating the loss of multiple structures (homes) within minutes. They have just requested an additional 3 attack helicopters. For now they are flying 8 helicopters and 8 attack tankers including a DC-10, 2 x BAe-146, a DC-7, 4 x Grumman S-2T, 2 x Sikorsky S-6 "Skycranes", 1 x Kaman "K-Max", and 5 UH-1H "Super Hueys". Add to those 2 x OV-10A for tactical control. As I said things got worse. The fire has grown to over 4,000 acres. Those who had ?sheltered in place? because the access roads were impassable through the fire line were ordered to evacuate by heading down to the lake shoreline to be evacuated by boat. So far a local boat clubhouse and 12 homes have burned and are lost. 250 residents have been evacuated and are being sheltered by the Red Cross at a local school in Paso Robles. The air attack base at Paso Robles airport had run low on premixed Fire retardant by 16:00 hours and the tankers were split with half of them having to fly South to Santa Maria to reload. That just made the circuit trip time about 45+ minutes vs 20 minutes from Paso. They are supposed to replenish the premix overnight. They have added 3 Sikorsky S-61 and 2 Sikorsky S-70 ?Firehawk? helicopters to the attack. Fortunately the helicopters all load water from the lake without fire retardant. They just fly back to Paso Robles to refuel and pilot relief. One of the UH-1H Super Huey had to be withdrawn as it had reached its maintenance limits and will be down for 36 hours. The burned home count is up to 22, and they have 16 strike teams arriving from around the State and US National Forest Service. Typically each strike team has 5-6 fire engines and the crew to go with them. They have also brought in about 150 inmate fire fighters, 8 more "FireCAT" bulldozers with their service vehicles, and several additional water tenders. I just hope they get better containment of the fire today. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_222e.jpg What is the wind doing and what is it predicted to do? You can get that info @ National Weather, http://www.weather.gov You might be able to, but I don't know enough about Savageduck's geography to even know where to click on the map. Fire Zone location: 35°44'20.89" N 120°59'00.88" W Try Google Earth or Google maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_223.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_224.jpg Thanks. That first shot was what I needed. You seem to lie on the border of two meteorological regions. One says SE changing to SW 10-15 mph. The other says ENE. That last one might worry you. What is your understanding of what is predicted? For now we are getting plenty of smoke and the wind should settle down after dark. Here are a batch of shots that were on our local NBC TV news channel, KSBY. Not great quality images, but they convey the seriousness of the situation. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ewzentbrjnyy24/AADRTLC6xILThCE7WOkYJj6ra?dl=0 This morning the fire is burning to the South-West and has grown to 7,300 acres. 40 houses have been burned, 6 damaged, with a total of 232 structures threatened. Most interesting is, the Western edge, which is the direction of growth is now closer to Hearst Castle (5.25 miles) than the Eastern perimeter is to my house (6 miles). Hearst Castle has cancelled some tours and is limiting the number of visitors. Additional strike teams have been brought in from Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. So we have 2,270 fire personnel engaged, 165 fire engines, 8 airtankers, 13 helicopters, 28 bulldozers, and 34 water tenders working. Please keep us posted. -- PeterN |
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On 8/17/16 PDT 10:11 AM, PeterN wrote:
On 8/17/2016 11:54 AM, Savageduck wrote: This morning the fire is burning to the South-West and has grown to 7,300 acres. 40 houses have been burned, 6 damaged, with a total of 232 structures threatened. Most interesting is, the Western edge, which is the direction of growth is now closer to Hearst Castle (5.25 miles) than the Eastern perimeter is to my house (6 miles). Hearst Castle has cancelled some tours and is limiting the number of visitors. Additional strike teams have been brought in from Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. So we have 2,270 fire personnel engaged, 165 fire engines, 8 airtankers, 13 helicopters, 28 bulldozers, and 34 water tenders working. Please keep us posted. Yes, indeed, please. Up North, the Cold fire is contained, but the Clear Lake fire took 175 structures, and was likely arson! Not as many acres, but a horrible deed, and huge losses. Best wishes to you, Mon. Le Canard! |
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Davoud:
Why would you send potential viewers to Dropbox, a clumsy way to share photos, when you have the Adobe account? Eric Stevens: I don't know why you think its clumsy. See the following photograph of a snow leopard, a crop taken from an iPad image shot through a spotting scope. It's a long way away. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/IMG_0224.JPG What's clumsy about that? Having to open a new web page for each photo, as opposed to seeing a page full of thumbnails and clicking on a desired photo. And using arrow keys or the mouse to move through photos--display a slide show--at one's own rate. Compared to that, Dropbox (which I use extensively to transfer large images and other files) is very clumsy for viewing photos. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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