Posted on 10/22/2007 8:06:14 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
SAN DIEGO -- With fire spreading quickly westward, San Diego County officials ordered the evacuation of a huge area east of Interstate 15 between Del Dios Highway and Highway 56 early Mon"This is the worst fire this county has ever seen -- worse than the Cedar Fire [of 2003]," Sheriff Bill Kolender said.
At a news conference shortly after 6 a.m., officials said fires had spread dramatically overnight, whipped by fierce Santa Ana winds. They said fire had jumped Interstate 15 at Lake Hodges and was burning in parts of Rancho Bernardo. Because of the explosive and unpredictable nature of the blazes, all residents living between Interstate 15 and Interstate 5 from Del Dios Highway in the north to Highway 56 in the south were told to begin evacuating.
"This fire is moving very quickly," San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders said. "Watch TV, listen to the radio and have your car prepared to leave."
Among the communities in the evacuation area are Rancho Sante Fe, Carmel Highlands, Rancho Bernardo, Del Mar Heights and Fairbanks Ranch and parts of Rancho Penasquitos.
Officials have opened Qualcomm Stadium in Mission Valley to handle the large number of evacuees.
Sanders asked everyone in San Diego County to minimize the use of cell phones to leave the airways free for the use of emergency personnel.day.
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SF, I’ve been trying to figure out if my brother’s family is in the evacuation area. I’m nearly sure it is. I’ve found I-5, I-15, and Lake Hodges on mapquest, but can’t find state route 56. Do you happen to know whether it’s known by another name?
Had the same problem...I believe that 56 is the Ted Williams Parkway...
” Well of course Katrina rings a bell. But can you cite any valid reports of rapes took place in the Superdome during the aftermath of Katrina?
The reports of rape inside the Superdome were rumor and not fact.”
It was a joke. My comment was to highlight the difference in the human element between the two cities.
And just because nothing was REPORTED, doesn’t mean crimes didn’t happen.
Mandatory evacuations all of Rancho Santa Fe.
That is correct, Ted Williams Pkwy = 56.
It’s 56 from the I-15 West, and Ted Williams Pkwy from the I-15 East.
They’re different fires. The University fire is on the hills above it... started about 3:30 this morning. Funny thing is, I just saw something on the tube to the effect that residents of the area could return so I’m really confused now.
To cap it off, some idiot took it upon himself to pull the manual pull station for our fire alarm system. Guess he’d decided to evacuate and didn’t want to be the only one. Piercing enunciator and bells ringing. Normally the maintenance crew would come shut it off, but they disappeared at 10 today. What fun!!
SR 56 is also known as Ted Williams Freeway
56 is the former Ted Williams Parkway
Was up in Cedar Crest yesterday -- enjoyed the first flurries of the season coming down! Means we beat the odds for another year.
We had some flurries yesterday too. But unless it’s raining or there’s a foot of snow on the ground, I don’t relax all the way.
I see. If that’s true, then my brother’s house is only about 200 yards south of the evacuation area. Thanks very much. Prayers up for my family, as well as all of the other people in danger.
THX THX BIG
GREATLY APPRECIATED.
THX THX THX
Del Mar being evacuated ! Motels filling up. Evacuation centers filling up.
BWA HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!
Just try and get a water quality permit from Arnold's bureaucrats to put in a fire access road. Besides, with embers spotting for over a mile a road is a cruel joke for a fire break. Hell, the QLG fuel breaks in Plumas County were over a hundred feet wide and proved inadequate.
Arnold is a TOTAL flake on forest policy, echoing whatever proves politically expedient:
Sierra Club Applauds Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Move to Protect California’s Roadless Forests
SCHWARZENEGGER WON’T PROTECT ROADLESS AREAS IN CALIFORNIA
Mary Statement by Mary Wells, the Executive Director of the California Wilderness Coalition:
...all of this was pioneered in the Appalachian mountains of Alabama (and yes, we routinely get 40mph winds in the Appalachian chain).
Fuel moisture content, water availability, and terrain in Alabama are nothing like summer in California mountains. Nor do they have the kind of fire adapted chaparral found here.
This is why the forest fires of Alabama that made the news back in 1940 are no longer newsworthy, because scientific forest management reduced 50,000 acre wildfires down to 100 acre brushfires...and that’s what is attempting to be copied by California (at least, where the enviro-wackos haven’t halted such efforts).
The NRDC wrote Arnold's environmental plan for him. They're the people behind the current, counterproductive, and unscientific TMDL water quality regulations that have virtually killed logging in California. Everybody in the business knows that California's forests are overstocked. Even with the Healthy Forest Initiative the Bush Administration couldn't get it done here either and Arnold helped the RICOnuts make sure of it.
You asked for this mess with your craven support for Arnold in the recall. Now own it. Just because that lying SOB says he's supporting adequate fuel management, doesn't mean that it works out that way. He's just covering his butt.
Thank you, sandyeggo and Shion. I hope my brother and his family are already out of there, and I hope the fire doesn’t reach their house.
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