Originally Posted By LuLu The winds have shifted and it's getting hard to breathe here! I smelled smoke in the middle of the night, saw it coming over the east horizon (at least my house wasn't on fire!) and had a hard time going back to sleep. The sky was clear at dawn, but horrible now... Hope everyone is OK! Where can I get the latest on the fires?
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Here's another story... <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/la-me-fire22oct22,0,7165250.story?coll=sns-technology-headlines" target="_blank">http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/local/la-me-fire22oct22a>,0,7165250.story?coll=sns-technology-headlines</a> What and where is Castle Kashan?
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x or try this one <a href="http://tinyurl.com/33bbvm" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/33bbvm</a>
Originally Posted By DlandJB I can smell fire from my house too, Ursula. (Sorry we didn't see you this morning at the CHOC Walk)
Originally Posted By friendofdd It is still bad, but has moved away from houses at this time. Channel 9 is giving full coverage.
Originally Posted By LuLu Castle Kashan is a private home (mansion) in Malibu. If I'm thinking of the right place, it was visible from PCH in the hills above the beach. I'm glad if the fire has moved away from homes, but the air here is just awful. I'm really hoping this will clear up waaay before Tuesday (when the winds are supposed to die down).
Originally Posted By Dave >>>I can smell fire from my house too, Ursula.<<< (looks around for Ursula)
Originally Posted By MissCandice On my Yahoo homepage I have the weather for here in Washington but also still San Diego and there was a weird picture on it, not clouds not sun not rain, so I clicked on it and it said the weather in SD was "smoke". Man, that's bad. Everyone stay safe down there, please.
Originally Posted By LuLu Yep, the weather at my house is definitely "smoke." All afternoon the sky was a thick gray and the sun was red. So, there was a fire about 3 miles from my house and I didn't even know it! There are still 1000's of home in Canyon Country that are in danger. It's kinda scary.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda Here in San Marcos, we're in a clear area free of smoke, but there is a ring of smoke surrounding the valley I'm in. The southern of the two fires in San Diego County (The Harris Fire) is right near the county park that my SCA group uses for it's two yearly camping events. We also have some SCA members who live in the area. I'm hoping they are all right and they haven't lost anything in the fire.
Originally Posted By DlandJB After smelling and seeing smoke for several hours they are now reporting a fire of hundres of acres just to the east of us in Santiago Canyon. The air is horrible outside. This is closer than I'd like to see. I have friends in Portola Hills and Foothill Ranch and they are right near it. (Sorry about that Lulu - I said Ursula, but I meant Lulu. I'd just been looking at photos from the walk with Ursula in them.)
Originally Posted By LuLu How is everyone this morning? Our air is a bit clearer here, I think our local fire (Santa Rosa) must have been extinguished overnight. No update on that. I wasn't scared for myself, but watching this all unfold on the news is frightening. 35,000 acres on fire this morning. The local fire was 3 miles north of us, but blowing east. Several years ago we were in a situation where the fire was literally just beyond our backyard. THAT was very frightening, and I was starting to gather photos and papers... but it's all about the wind. That one blew all the way to the coast, damaging only 1 home I believe. That said, a friend's neighbors' house burned last night, they're about 3 miles south of us, so I don't think it had anything to do with any of the big fires... but this weather is just terrible for fires. It doesn't take much! Stay safe everyone!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I can't get to the incidents page at the moment - the usually update in the morning. But here's a link to the official fire information. Click on "Fire Incidents" on the right hand column. <a href="http://www.fire.ca.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.fire.ca.gov/</a>
Originally Posted By SuzieQ The page is very slow to load, but it is now loading. The direct link is: <a href="http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current" target="_blank">http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/inc idents/incidents_current</a> Darn it! I started to copy and paste some of the information, but the site is going up and down. Probably due to heavy traffic.
Originally Posted By fkurucz You could definitely smell the smoke in DL last night. Haven't been out of the room yet, but the sky looks clear out the window, and its still very windy.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ My brother is a firefighter here in the Bay Area. He got a call during his daughter's birthday party yesterday asking if he wanted to volunteer for a Strike Team. On our way home, we were on I-5 from Sacramento to Stockton and passed a Strike Team (5 engines and 2 chief's SUVs) from Butte/Lassen. The Castiac fire has it's own incident page here: <a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1002/" target="_blank">http://www.inciweb.org/inciden t/1002/</a> This is the separate page for the Santiago fire, which seems to be the closest to DL. <a href="http://www.ocfa.org/ocfamain.asp?pgn1=3" target="_blank">http://www.ocfa.org/ocfamain.a sp?pgn1=3</a> Both have been updated this morning.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>That said, a friend's neighbors' house burned last night, they're about 3 miles south of us, so I don't think it had anything to do with any of the big fires... but this weather is just terrible for fires. It doesn't take much!<< I heard a couple of reports last night about the extra danger of "routine" house and business fires getting out of control, because so many of the firefighters are busy trying to cope with the wildfires. Be careful, folks.
