Western Railroad Discussion > Current fire map

Good map that gives a quick snapshot of the chaos down there. Also updated to show the closure of the Surfline:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571&ie=UTF8&ll=33.074282,-117.285919&spn=1.08633,1.801758&z=9&om=0

Here is the GOOGLE collection of many SoCal Google Fire Maps from the Google Blog.
This should give us a good idea about what areas are impacted:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/southern-california-fire-maps.html

---Daniel

It's interesting to see how extensive the fire area is, though the map only covers the fires in San Diego County, and is missing the new fires that have developed in Orange County.

Look at

http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/

On the right side, in the "News Releases" block, there's a link to the latest version of the San Diego County fire map. It's extremely slow to load, so be patient. It's less cluttered with symbols than the Google map, so it's easier to see what's going on. There may be similar maps for the counties farther north, but I haven't explored them; my daughter and her husband live in San Diego (they're OK) so I've taken a personal interest there.

The Santiago fire is now officially an arson fire. Sick ba****d.

FBI went to a house in OC earlier, burn 'em at the stake ! (hey, they wanna play with fire, show 'em what it's like).


TCS - kudos the DH for following proper procedures, glad you're all ok.

A very interesting infrared imagery map of the fires at

http://www.fireimaging.com/homepage.html

You can select which fire to look at via links on the home page.

Most recent fire map at

http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/newsreleases/10242007_1600hrs_Evac_FirePerem.pdf

I've turned the big map into a small jpg and attached here - hopefully not too many copyrights have been violated in the process.

As you can see, the one affecting the surfline is still going strong, as is the one slowly eating its way east along State Highway 94 near Campo and the one running along the south face of Palomar Mountain. I suspect there won't be much astronomy done up that way this evening.

- Kit

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I'm posting the map again, only with a red X marking where the Campo railroad museum is located - since that isn't obvious from what was there.

- Kit

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Man that's like 70-80% of that part of the state in flames!

That map is just San Diego County.

That's gonna make avacados expensive, most of the Irvine Ranch groves (according to the maps) have gone up in flames too, haven't gotten down to verify how much yet.


TCS - project rattlesnake veteran