The Soberanes Fire incident base is in full operation on the Rancho Canada golf course. As a result fire trucks and fire personnel dominate the parking lots of The Crossroads shopping center and businesses along Carmel Rancho Blvd. You won’t hear anyone complaining.
In front of Safeway there is a map station staffed by active or retired Cal Fire personnel. They answer questions about fire activity and help interpret the maps.
PG&E trucks have taken over the field at the corner of Highway 1 and Rio Rd.. They brought in heavy equipment to restore lost power and replace burned power poles. There were more than a dozen large construction oriented PG&E trucks and numerous support vehicles staged in the field at 6:00 am today.
Below are some street images taken August 3 on Carmel Rancho Blvd, Rio Road and Crossroads parking lot.
Most of the images taken yesterday represent engine strike teams heading out for the 12 hour day shift.
Strike teams from as far away as Calexico.
Strike team lined up for gasoline at the 76 Station.
Strike team from Mariposa on Carmel Rancho Blvd.
Exiting the incident base onto Rio Road.
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Thanks, Mike. Gives us perspective on the origins of some of these strike teams and how far they travel to come here.
There was a strike team of five engines and a pickup truck parked in Carmel-by-the-Sea yesterday, too. Now this explains why they were stacked up by Carmel Plaza in the visitor bus area.
My pleasure Kate. The scene is something to behold around shift change. Literally hundreds of engines and crew carriers in the neighborhood. Really remarkable. They are good neighbors too...
I really wonder how these guys are going to be able to go about their work when in the next week and a half we are going to get a YUUUUGE influx of visitors for Car Week. I dread the thought of the traffic mess on top of this tragedy. And I hope that the powers that be are wise enough NOT to hold any events at Quail Lodge. But frankly, I doubt that anyone is that on top of it, because there seems to be almost no regional coordination of the car events.
That is an interesting question Carolyn. As the fire moves farther south more structure protection engines will be released from the incident. Maybe too early for any firm predictions though. In any case Quail Lodge and even Rancho Canada lots are not compromised.
Both Quail Lodge and Rancho Canada hosting large car shows on Friday Aug 19
The multicolored map of the fire intensity seems quite useful if available
Armand
Car Week traffic turns Highway 1 and Carmel Valley Road into parking lots at times. Not only the Friday events in Carmel Valley, but Carmel has two events (one on Tuesday and one on Thursday) that bring in excess of 10,000 visitors into the one-square mile village on each day. Parking for the events is at Larson Field by the Carmel Mission for about 400 cars and a shuttle transports people into the village; that helps a little bit. So my concern is that no matter how many fire apparatus are still in the area, they will be challenged to move around between Rancho Canada, Crossroads and points south and east through this area.😟
Hi Carolyn, There is lot of empty space for all these fire crews in Tassajara
area; the SE corner of the fire area where the fire is pointing to. We would love to have them.
Cal Fire just set up base at Rancho Canada. Not sure how many times they will want to move it. But I am hoping for the best because, for me, the operations of the fire personnel trumps anything else.