San Diego County fires - Live Thread 10/26

[socal_parrot]

New threat regarding San Diego County fires.

[Grampa Dave]

The link below lists the tv stations in San Diego and Tiajuana. Some have hot links to go to their web sites.

http://www.geocities.com/fubu102/stations/SDTV.htm

[maggief]

http://signonsandiego.com/

Live: SignOnSanDiego helicopter video

http://www.camzone.com/scripts/demo.html

[null and void]

Purely a coincidence, I'm sure...

[Travis McGee]

I have not heard of power outages, I have power in Pacific Beach.

I did see film of trees blowing like crazy and sparking local power lines, just small neighborhood service stuff. These blowing trees sparking wires may be starting fires.

[Hildy]

They say that the Ramona fire is arson.

[bonesmccoy]

SCE last night was considering voluntarily shutting down power to a larger area of the San Bernardino mountains to limit arcing under high wind, low humidity conditions.

SDG&E might be doing similar things.

[Travis McGee]

I've never seen the sky like this in my life, and the air outside is awful, but we're okay in Pacific Beach.

Watching TV is like watching a sci-fi horror movie.

[Grampa Dave]

Map of San Diego County:

[Travis McGee]

That makes sense.

[FITZ]

Are there actually Santa Ana winds right now? We usually get those here when there are ---- but that's not what we've got --- a bunch of cold moist air blew in from Canada to the SW---- not hot and dry. Of course there could be Santa Ana winds that didn't come this way --- I just am wondering about that.

[Travis McGee]

I'm just above the H in Pacific Beach on that map, 4 miles north of Seaworld, 2 miles from the beach.

[null and void]

Watching TV is like watching a sci-fi horror movie.

Figure skating frightens you?

[Grampa Dave]

This one is clearer. Map of San Diego County:

[Grampa Dave]

A map of central San Diego County showing Coastal area/routes:

[nicmarlo]

Incident: 0439 Type: Structure or Grass Fire Location: SAN PASQUAL Zoom Map: Click Here Info as of: 10/26/2003 9:49:37 AM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
9:40AM - HER SISTER IS TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO WALLS OF FLAMES ON THE RES

[cgk]

A large home burns out of control, a victim of a wind-driven wildfire that tore through Ramona.

[FITZ]

I saw the news last night ---- incredible fires. The fires looked like they were making their own winds.

[Grampa Dave]

[cgk]

Road Closures:

Interstate 15 southbound at Mira Mesa Blvd.

I-15 northbound at Miramar Road.

Interstate 163 at northbound I-52.

Highway 67 between Maple View and Poway Road.

Northbound 67 at Slaughterhouse.

Wildcat Canyon Road completely closed in both directions.

Southbound 76 at Cole Grade Road.

Valley Center Road between 76 and Lake Wohlford.

Welcome Way at Ramona Oaks Road.

Route 2 heading north at Lazyacres.

Scripps Poway at Highway 67 intersection.