Category: SAN DIEGO EMERGENCIES

Words to live by

Words to live by

| November 3, 2008 | Reply

Courtesy of contemplate.us: I think that Machiavelli may have said this.  ..bruce w..

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Fire Watch Southern California – Possible Santa Ana This Week

Fire Watch Southern California – Possible Santa Ana This Week

| November 19, 2007 | Reply

The local news and weather have been talking up the possibility of a Santa Ana wind period during the Thanksgiving holiday week. At the moment the models are so chaotic that there are no good or accurate predictions of if it will happen, and if it does how significant it could be. Sadly if the […]

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San Diego Fires post-mortem: Calit2

San Diego Fires post-mortem: Calit2

| November 7, 2007 | Reply

Just today I’ve had some communications with Jerry Sheehan at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). During the San Diego fires, they were also providing information to the public via the web, working with NASA to generate and publish satellite imagery of the fires (click on the photo and scroll down to […]

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San Diego update — Interstate 5 closed for a period (11/02/07 – 1650 pdt)

San Diego update — Interstate 5 closed for a period (11/02/07 – 1650 pdt)

| November 2, 2007 | Reply

We’ve been getting Google search hits looking for details on an Interstate 5 closure; my own digging shows that “a suspicious device” has been found near the intersection of I-5 and Genesee: The discovery of a possible pipe bomb alongside Interstate 5 in the Torrey Pines area forced a complete shutdown of a stretch of […]

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San Diego Fires – infographics from SD Union-Tribune

San Diego Fires – infographics from SD Union-Tribune

| November 1, 2007 | Reply

The San Diego Union-Tribune has two interactive maps of the San Diego fires available online: A map showing the extent of the fires, including the ability to see where each started and how widespread it was at key points, with some data overlays (population density, median home prices) A Google map showing houses burned in […]

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San Diego Fires post-mortem: ourselves

San Diego Fires post-mortem: ourselves

| October 31, 2007 | 2 Replies

I’ve previously posted feedback from readers on how the media performed during the San Diego Fires as well as how the government performed. At the same time that I solicited that feedback, I also asked for suggestions on how our coverage here at “And Still I Persist” might have been better. Feedback and my own […]

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San Diego Fires post-mortem: the government

San Diego Fires post-mortem: the government

| October 30, 2007 | 1 Reply

[UPDATED 11/01/07 0734 PDT] – The San Diego Union-Tribune has an excellent article by Alex Roth and Mark Sauer discussing to what extent government agencies handled things better this time than back in 2003. It particularly notes the need for more fire stations (with matching firefighters and equipment) to meet the risk of large-scale fires […]

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Heroics saved firefighters in SoCal fire

Heroics saved firefighters in SoCal fire

| October 30, 2007 | Reply

Last week I commented on how courage, heroism and American self-reliance was on full display last week as the area faced its most wide-spread disaster in at least a generation. As the weeks go forward we are going to read dozens of stories about people who saw a chance to make a difference and did […]

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San Diego Fires port-mortem: the media

San Diego Fires port-mortem: the media

| October 30, 2007 | Reply

A few days ago, I asked for comments on what you thought the media did wrong or could have done better in covering the San Diego fires. Several of you have taken the time to respond, either via private e-mail or by posting comments. Sad to say, the comments tended to be largely uniform and […]

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Covering The San Diego Fires – Sources And Methods

Covering The San Diego Fires – Sources And Methods

| October 30, 2007 | Reply

First off, I would like to thank everyone for the mountains of praise and complements on our coverage of the fires in San Diego last week. It was a large amount of work, but I think it really helped everyone, including myself, understand what was going on. Several folks have expressed interest in how and […]

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