[madfly]

Prescribed burn gone bad!

[tubebender]

We have only had 20 % of normal rain fall here in Humboldt County. We had temps in the 60s and clear skys yesterday with a mild frost last nite. Clear again this morning and we should be up to our belly buttons in rain right now. Sierra Pacific got it's start near Eureka by Curley Emmerson and it is now run by his son "Red" Emmerson.

There was a story out of the AP yesterday about the Sierra Club et al blocking salvage logging on one of this years Oregon fires.

[Grampa Dave]

We have been under a high wind warning for two days now.

I had to restart my irrigation drip system over the weekend due to the lack of rain in a couple of weeks.

This morning I had to program an extra cycle for all flower plants and non natural trees and shrubs. The warm day and high wind just dried everything up.

It was 61 degrees here at 7:30 am and felt like it did when we had the massive fires in Oakland a few years ago.

I can only imagine how dry it is in the forests and grasslands.

[BurbankKarl]

I didn't think fire season ever ended in CA...one small brush working in SoCal right now...I work about a mile from the Glendale burn area (this past summer) and there is a huge dirt cloud raining down on the city...smells like ash too.

[BurbankKarl]

Brush Fire in San Gabriel area....

Verdugo Strike Team 1203 being assembled for some incident in LA Count...just saw one of the LACFD FireHawks fly overhead...

Altavista and Foothill Blvd.

[afraidfortherepublic]

This used to be a lightly populated area, but now there are houses all over the place making any kind of a forest fire a deadly and expensive proposition.