This is not the best news: Below that, the easterly flow will resume tomorrow [Saturday] night. Winds won’t be anything like early this week, but it will knock humidity levels back below 10 percent in the mountains. Wind gusts shouldn’t top 30 mph. The low wind speeds should help minimize things, but anyone living in […]
The latest San Diego County Emergency Center fire map show little active burning except in the northern section of the Witch Creek / Poomacha fire complex: As you can see, a lot of this is still up on Palomar Mountain. The San Diego County Emergency Center had this description of the Poomacha Fire as of […]
I know that many people are hoping that someone puts a database online that allows people to see if a specific house is among the list of known destroyed structures. As of tonight the San Diego Union Tribune has made one available. This covers areas effected by the Witch Creek, Rice Canyon and Harris Fires […]
…it appears that not all the lessons learned from the 2003 San Diego fires were applied: LOS ANGELES — Eight Marine helicopters were at the ready to help fight the California wildfires but were grounded due to government red tape, lawmakers said Friday. This prevented some firefighting teams from getting to the largest U.S. natural disaster […]
A collection of interesting news on the San Diego fires from our local media: Witch Creek fire fierce from start Bill Tulloch is a tough old cattle rancher. Even at 82, he thought he had a chance to stop the fire that was brewing on the northeast side of his property around noon on Sunday. […]
First off, I want to strongly point out we do not know if any person or animals were injured here. Photo credit – Reader Ebba Foster I have commented before on the amazing level of bravery and dedication the equestrian community has here in San Diego. Several stables had to be evacuated more than once […]
The Poomacha fire is still working hard to try and burn as much of Palomar mountain as it can, as shown in these images created from Google Earth merged once again with infra-red data from the Pacific Southwest Research Station. To create this kind of data, an aircraft flies over the fires with a special […]
Though most of the county is working hard to get back to the regular routine of life, there are several hot spots to the fires still being battled. One is the Harris Fire near Lyon’t Peak. The image below was constructed using Google Earth and data from Pacific Southwest Research Station. This data is from […]
As per BruceH’s morning post, things are cooling down, literally and figuratively. There are still a few small communities under threat, but we no longer face the prospect of having Chula Vista, La Mesa, and/or Del Mar go up in smoke. This is the second major set of fires that San Diego has endured in […]
The fires is San Diego are not yet out, but they are now burning mostly in the back country. There is still some threat to populated areas by the Harris Fire, Witch Creek eastern front and the Poomacha Fire. During this phase of the even information about the location and direction of the burn will […]
