Categories: 2013 Fire Season

Wild Fire, Santa Cruz

A small brush fire is being fought up behind the Scott’s Valley Sportsmen’s Club. Cal Fire helicoptered in a crew to the Santa Cruz Sentinel parking lot. Less than an acre at this point.

bigsurkate

Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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  • Funny coincidence here. Last week, friends up revisiting property they once owned in Santa Cruz mountains found the usual hoards of pot growers and meth mixers tucked away on red-tagged land. The surprise was these were an enclave of dread-locked blonds with blue eyes....from Israel ! Hoorah open borders. Fiction that impoverished strawberry picking Mexicans wanting to feed their starving families are sneaking across the Rio Grande for a better life, well hello, this is becoming Cartel Coast. And nobody is starving who is in on it. But every now and then, they start fires.

  • Here are the pictures I shot of this fire today... and Google Plus even automatically animated my sequence of the helicopter landing in the parking lot:

    https://plus.google.com/photos/114615210012240069548/albums/5904696228116125553

    Usually all of my fire photos end up at http://fire.ddphoto.cc but Flickr was down for maintenance today, so I tossed them up on Google Plus instead. Thanks for following my @xcz_wildland account, I'll try to keep people up to date on some of the fires in the northern parts of the Monterey Bay!

  • There have been an unusual number of small wild fires in the woods around Santa Cruz this year. Locations appear often to be associated with transient "campsites".
    A transient was arrested last week for setting three fires in Henry Cowell State Park. Frightening.

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