Starting at 11 pm tonight.
Red Flag Warning now includes Santa Cruz Mountains
Starting at 11 pm tonight.
Category: 2017 Fire Season
Controlled burn on Ft Ord
Photo by Mike Morales from his house in East Garrison this am, shorting after 9 am when the prescribed burn started:
Photos by Nestor Marin from Gen Jim Moore Rd:
Just a reminder, I’ve already received queries. This morning. Photo by Sandy O’Keefe Bellamy.
Prescribed burn on Ft. Ord
Fire at the Lodge in Pebble Beach
Structure Fire, Pebble Beach CSD (Monterey County)
Pebble Beach, CA – At 11:56 a.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, Pebble Beach Community Services District(CSD)/CAL FIRE was dispatched to a structure fire at The Lodge at Pebble Beach, 1500 Cypress Drive, in Pebble Beach (Monterey County). Personnel responding to the reported fire included (4) Battalion Chiefs, (6) Engines, (1) Truck, (1) Medic Squad, and (1) Fire Investigator for approximately (37) Firefighters at scene.
Upon arrival, fire crews found a large commercial building, approximately 20,000 square feet in size. From the outside of the structure, crews could see smoke coming from the second floor of the building. Upon entry into the garage, crews found heavy smoke conditions. During a primary search, crews found the fire was in the chimney ducting, resulting in charring in the duct space from the basement to the roof. Firefighters were able to minimize the spread of the fire with an aggressive initial attack, knocking down the fire and containing it to the ducting. The fire occurred at 11:56 am. There were no injuries as a result of the fire. CAL FIRE estimates the fire caused $150,000 dollars in damages.
Who: Pebble Beach CSD/CAL FIRE
What: Structure Fire
When: October 3, 2017, 11:56 a.m.; contained at 12:03 p.m.; controlled at 12:19 p.m. Where: The Lodge at Pebble Beach, 1500 Cypress Drive, Pebble Beach (Monterey County)
Huasna Fire, SLO Co. 9/20/17
9 pm UPDATE: 244 acres and 45% contained.
Photo by Cal Fire – SLO
3 pm UPDATE: “40-50 acres. Holding within the retardant at this time.” They put 6 tankers on this one right away.
Firefighters are battling a 30 acre fire off Huasna Townsite Rd & Huasna Rd, Huasna (San Luis Obispo County). #HuasnaFire. If SLOStringer were here, we would have photos any minute. Instead, we make do with this map.
Fire East of Soledad
2:30 pm – KION reports: SOLEDAD, Calif. – Multiple fires have been sparked in South Monterey County.
According to Soledad Fire officials, a two acre fire was likely started by lightning strikes just after 2p.m. Monday.
Currently, they are fighting the blaze by air and ground.
There are reports of another fire also sparked by lightning in King City.
Strong thunderstorms made their way through Gonzales and towards Salinas just after 2 p.m. Lightning and gusty winds over 40 mph and small hail are possible as the storm rolls through.
2:15 pm – I can see it from the 101. It is behind the first ridge, maybe in the Pinnacles. I will look for further. Cal Fire is just off the 101 trying to figure out how best to get there.
Margarita Fire
8:30 pm – high winds, but good rain on this fire.
8 pm – rain is coming down pretty good in Paso Robles right now. Hopefully, it will hit this fire! Also reported to be coming down hard in Arroyo Grande. It is heading here, so I need to go close a bunch of windows.
7:15 pm – 150 acres
6 pm – additional for the fire on Pozo Rd. …Eng. 8965, 1 eng. Paso, 1 eng. 5 cities , an WT21 and WR 57. SLO City just sent an engine, and there are now 3 AT working it.
5:30: Veg. Fire Hwy 58 at West Pozo Rd. First engine at scene reporting 50 to 100 acres potential for 2000 acres. B3418 requesting additional AT’s and 5 additional engines. Going to be tough to get any air support, as helicopters are currently unavailable. And that crazy wind event that blew through Santa Barbara, then Santa Maria, may make its way north tonight.
5:00 pm – CHP reports a brush fire.
Friend send me this: “Just had a veg response for Pozo Rd. an Santa Margarita Lake Rd. ….B3418/3422, T75, Tanker an Helo o/o, Engs. 14, 42, 40, 3480, 3468, 3467, 4684, 3428, 7596, WT50, D3441 an 34E1, Cuesta crews 4 an 5”
Missy alerting on Thunder
4:32 pm – Immediate evacuation of the Alamo Fire burn area due to expected flash floods. Significant damage in Santa Barbara Harbor due to the high winds. Flash flood warning for SLO Co and Southern Monterey County as well. AA 340 just sent to Santa Barbara for a search & rescue mission.
4:00 pm – I can’t hear a thing, but Missy? She has come to sit by my feet under my desk, a behavior she only exhibits for thunder and gunshots. I also got a weather alert for severe thunderstorms in Santa Barbara, and apparently that is happening now. SLO is expected to get thunderstorms as well. This is what KSBY in SLO says:
“The Central Coast is looking at another day of heat combined with the threat of continued isolated showers and thunderstorms. Tropical storm Lidia will shift north while expanding coverage today. The Central Coast should expect increasing mid to high level subtropical clouds, rain showers and chance of thunderstorms Sunday evening into Tuesday morning. About 1/3 inch of rain is expected for many locations over three days.”
This is not good news as there are fires throughout California threatening homes. There are too many to list. Two just started this afternoon, Mission Fire in North Fork, south of Bass Lake and Oakhurst, and Peak fire in Bootjack, near Mariposa. Structures already lost in both, and people can’t evacuate from one housing area. The La Tuna in LA has caused the evacuation of parts of Burbank, Glendale, and LA.
Stay alert and aware. It is a bad weekend.
Weather West CA temps map for Sat
Daniel West, weather forecaster extraordinaire issued this map late Thursday.
Look at those temps! “Why is it always so hot on big weekends?” the fire chief, Martha Karstens, bemoaned. This is critical fire weather folks. No campfires, no matches, no cigarettes, and as one visual says:
Honestly, this community cannot survive another big one this close to the Soberanes. We have another heavy winter ahead of us, and we haven’t yet recovered from this double whammy. Please, help us by being vigilant and reporting any and all campfires.
Vegetation fire early this am on John K’s property
As some of you already know, there was a fire early this am in the eucalyptus grove on John K’s property (don’t ask me to spell it. I can’t.) back behind the deli, sorta, south of Rancho Rico, and the BSVFB got the call out. I got a notification at about 2:30 am from a local (I was up as it was too hot to sleep) and others woke from the smell of smoke. I decided not to post then for many reasons – no need to panic, wanted additional information, etc. and I was right. By this morning, it was a done deal. 14 BSVFB members were on scene in no time and had it under control. According to WildCAD LPNF members were also dispatched. Now is a good time to make a donation to our local fire brigade. 😘