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Posted on May 8 at 4:25 p.m.
Wind on west camino cielo has been very calm for the past few hours, with a slight onshore breeze bringing some of the smoke here. Over east of painted cave it's clearly burning judging by the smoke, but nothing strong. Hopefully it can be kept in control. Photos around painted cave from earlier today can be seen at:
Photos @11:56am of drop on east side of painted cave, probably onto ridge between two forks of Maria Ygnacio creek.
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-115...
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-115...
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Posted on May 8 at 12:41 p.m.
Oops, got the last link incorrect:
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-115...
And the links do seem active, so that's nice!
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Posted on May 8 at 12:37 p.m.
Photo @9:28am as the fire came around the windy gap fire break in to Maria Ygnacio creek. The house in the foreground is at the top of the first climb of painted cave road. Note that the fire is much further behind that (further east).
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-092...
Photos @11:56am of drop on east side of painted cave, probably onto ridge between two forks of Maria Ygnacio creek.
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-115...
http://tve.s3.amazonaws.com/20090508-092...
Hey, Independent, any way to get the photos inlined or the links active?
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Posted on May 8 at 12:27 p.m.
For those interested in the north-western corner of the fire, it crossed around the "windy gap" fire break approx 9am into the east flank of the east fork of Maria Ygnacio creek. It has been going up creek since. I've seen a couple of large retardant drops up along east camino cielo near knapps castle or thereabouts. This was followed by a series of drops on the eastern side of painted cave. I'm looking from west camino cielo and it looks like in between the two forks of Maria Ygnacio creek. Winds up here have calmed down significantly since earlier in the morning, but overall it doesn't look good at all.
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Posted on May 7 at 9:46 p.m.
Looking at the fie from west camino cielo, it seems to be really bad in the upper ends of ontare and probably northridge. Barger canyon possibly as well, hard to tell. I've heard reports that it has crossed 154 at the bottom, but from up here this looks impossible.
Posted on July 4 at 7:41 a.m.
As of 7am on the 4th the fire hasn't gone through the west camino cielo community. Our house situated on the north east edge of windermere looks fine on our webcam. Wind there is ~14mph out of the NW. Winds have been 100% steady out of the NW for the past few days, turning slightly more westwards on the 3rd. Winds the past night have been much stronger than on previous nights where they pretty much came to a rest. Not so the last night with a min ~10mph.
Ray, please keep up the excellent coverage. The twitter is an excellent idea! Maybe you want to also have a way for readers to send you info directly? Like photos and other observations?
Posted on August 6 at 10:37 p.m.
Thanks again for a great account! You are correct: maps that show the place names you mention would be great! (It took me a long time to find a map that shows buckhorn road, for example.)
Can you comment on the overall impact of the fire on the wilderness? Fire is good, but is this too much? If we get some decent rains next spring (a big if), will this be a great area for wildflowers?
Posted on August 5 at 9:33 a.m.
Thanks for the great coverage! This is the best information source on what's actually happening. InciWeb has up-todate statistics but very little description of what happened and what is planned and the maps are 12-24 hours old. The county web sites have announcements that they held a press conference, but do you think they'd post the contents of the web site? Yes, I can watch it on cable channel 20, but did someone consider that mountain residents are far outside the reach of cable TV?
Please keep up the good coverage!
- Thorsten - mountain resident
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Posted on May 11 at 9:12 p.m.
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