Anyone know where Norcal fire is?

[Joerg]

Boggles my mind: Checked the local news web sites, nothing. They blabber
on about non-essential stuff like what art to put in the SMF airport.
Yet we sit here in thick smoke east of Sacramento, coughing our lungs
out. CDF site is not helpful either.

Anyone from northern California know where it is?

 

[Joerg]

A little more background please?

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 ;-)

 

[JeffM]

Checked the local news web sites, nothing. They blabber
on about non-essential stuff like what art to put in the SMF airport.

*Online Fire Tracking*
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/28/019245&mode=nested&threshold=4#7327353

 

[Rich Grise]

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 ;-)

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

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Joerg]

Google is your friend... "Norcal" is the crew...

http://www.kcbs.com/pages/1229468.php?

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

 

[Joerg]

Just this:

http://pubsys.sacbee.com/101/story/1048493.html

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.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Boggles my mind: Checked the local news web sites, nothing. They blabber
on about non-essential stuff like what art to put in the SMF airport.
Yet we sit here in thick smoke east of Sacramento, coughing our lungs
out. CDF site is not helpful either.

Anyone from northern California know where it is?

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

http://www.knco.com/article.cfm?Article=5956


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Joerg]

*Online Fire Tracking*
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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.

 

[Joerg]

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

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.

 

[Joerg]

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

http://www.knco.com/article.cfm?Article=5956

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.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

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

http://www.knco.com/article.cfm?Article=5956


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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

 

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A little more background please?

Jim

This?
http://www.kcra.com/news/17846554/detail.html

Michael

 

[Joerg]

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?

We live in Gold Country but this is definitely much bigger than a little
3-acres roast. Heck, now the stench has made it into my office. Dang!

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

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.

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

 

[Martin Griffith]

Boggles my mind: Checked the local news web sites, nothing. They blabber
on about non-essential stuff like what art to put in the SMF airport.
Yet we sit here in thick smoke east of Sacramento, coughing our lungs
out. CDF site is not helpful either.

Anyone from northern California know where it is?

Nasa has a realtime fire site, if you can figure out how to use it
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2008304/

martin

 

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Boggles my mind: Checked the local news web sites, nothing. They blabber
on about non-essential stuff like what art to put in the SMF airport.
Yet we sit here in thick smoke east of Sacramento, coughing our lungs
out. CDF site is not helpful either.

Anyone from northern California know where it is?

It's Jon Slaughter's multi grid tube amp.

 

[Joerg]

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

No, I meant the CDF frequencies. The news stations are often not that
helpful with this stuff.

But, you hit the nail on the head earlier: It was (finally!) announced a
few minutes ago on one news station that the controlled burn north of us
had "experienced an unforeseen wind shift". I wish they wouldn't
control-burn such larges swaths all at once.

 

[Joerg]

It's Jon Slaughter's multi grid tube amp.

ROFL!

 

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Um, wrong direction.

John

Yep, Orange County is near Los Angeles.

Those Santa Ana winds are no fun to fly in, let me tell you... even in
a Boeing 737...

Michael

 

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It's Jon Slaughter's multi grid tube amp.

That must have been (key word: been) some tube amp... isn't he in
Plano, TX?

Michael