Anyone know where Norcal fire is?

A little more background please?

Jim

-- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle

Just this:

John

Well, I do not know. We are next to the Cameron Park airport and yesterday the air became hazy and a slight smell developed. Now it's a thick blue soup with a stinging forest fire stench. All around us and as bad as this summer. No distinct smoke column anywhere and I can't hear the usual roar of CDF planes so it probably is farther away. But it must be quite big.

That's all I know, on account of a lack of information from the local media. Maybe us rednecks aren't important. Or for some media, not politically correct ;-)

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Have you tried calling the nearest gendarmes or fire dept and asking them?

Good Luck! Rich

Well, it says that they are sending engines south. Doesn't explain our smoke ;-)

Hmm, thanks, that wasn't in the Bee this morning (we get the real paper). And not on their head pages. So we got a situation similar to this summer, except the number of fires is "only" 15%. Not good but at least rain is on the way.

Is this it? (controlled burn north of Lake Englebright)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Um, wrong direction.

John

NIFC only has the Los Padres fire listed. >500 miles from here, that ain't it.

And the map (first link) results in URL not found :-(

Guess I'll have to see if I can catch anything on VHF radio then.

I won't do that until we have an emergency going on. Those folks should not be bothered with non-emergencies. And they definitely know that something is going on because the fire station is as deep in the thick haze as we are.

Unlikely. That would be in RST-Jim's area. CDF tries to do controlled burns in a clean fashion without this much smoke. Unless one goes out of control which has happened.

On a sunny day (Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:39:00 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Why not just call the fire department and ask? OTOH it may be a fire because an UFO crashed in area 52, did you measure any radiation? This because they are showing the movie 'Independence day' today on Vox. Also burning nuclear plants will not be reported to avoid panic :-)

Actually that movie is nice.

That station (as of 8:05am local time) says that there was a 3-acre brush fire off Laurie drive on the back side of (Atha??) Sierra. Calfire plane dropped retardant, ground crews went in, no structures lost, just some lingering smoke.

Gold Country Bistro?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

This?

Michael

We live in Gold Country but this is definitely much bigger than a little

VHF radio? You mean FM? Usually the AM band has the all-news stations, but I don't know your area well.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Nasa has a realtime fire site, if you can figure out how to use it

martin