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Yes, Green Valley Lake near Running Springs, just west of Lake Arrowhead.

I just took a drive over into western San Bernardino since we have been smelling those Rim fires all the way in Rancho Cucamonga since this afternoon. What a trip. Drove up the 15 to the 210 then drove the 210 to the 215. Saw no fires west of the 215. Did see a small fire with 2-4 engines working it at the 15 and 210 interchange. They had just put it out. There were about 7-8 overturned big rigs. Sustained winds on the freeways was at least 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. Lots of blowing debris and dust. Could not see the fires up on the rim of the world, but the smoke was still blowing straight south and was lying low over western San Bernardino. There must be lots of fire up there but it is not coming down the foothills yet. I think the reason the smoke is traveling west from San Bernardino is due to the constant winds traveling down the Cajon Pass. They are sucking the smoke from the rim fires out to the west and southwest right over Rancho Cucamonga. So we have no danger right now of the what happened in San Diego where fires apparently traveled over 20 miles in a day. What will be a danger is if a fire gets into that Cajon Pass wind tunnel. I think they have engines just waiting around putting out any trouble there right now. There were miles of Semi trucks stopped in the slow lane of NB 15. Waiting for the wind to stop. Will also have to worry if the Rim Fires start driving down the foothills with the winds at their back. Hope everyone is safe up on the Rim. No one posted on the Butler II thread since I did 2 1/2 hours ago. They must have all evacuated and western San Bernardino is almost too smoky to stay the night right now.

When I went by the I-210 / I-15 this afternoon there was one tractor trailer over and one camper smashed and wrapped around a light pole.

Going to work this morning there was 4 trailers over and one on front of me trying to make it 5. He got up on 9 wheels twice and I finally punched it and got around him before he locked up the freeway. I thought about grabbing the videocam for some action shots but it would have been my luck he would have tipped it right as I reached for the cam.