The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (aka Cal Fire) updated its statewide fire hazard maps. Its been 14 years since the last update. The state is broken up by County and then by state and local responsibility areas with very high, high, and moderate risk areas. Check out the details! View the CBS News Coverage State Responsibility Area Local Responsibility Area
When TV and radio list the winds as “life threatening” you know we are in for a big, scary wind event. And, as we all know strong winds increase the chances for catastrophic wildfires. There are a few wildfires already burning in the Southland. This post includes a short list of resources you can use to track wildfire events: CalFire Incidentshttps://loom.ly/woMTq1Y Alert California https://loom.ly/_QRTsEs SoCal Edison Public Safety Power Shut Off Outage Map https://loom.ly/B5VpawQ Sign up for County Safety Alerts … Read More
The City of Brea has installed two cameras to help alert authorities to wildfire incidents in eastern Brea. You can follow along and see what the cameras see at these links: Canyon Camera 1 Canyon Camera 2
It is our understanding that the Blue Ridge Fire has 16% containment and has burned 14,334 acres as of the briefing this morning. These numbers have been adjusted from the 15,200 acre estimate yesterday now that revised mapping has been completed. From our sources (fire agencies, state park staff, and eye witness accounts), here is what we know today: 1. Most of this acreage burned appears to be in the San Bernardino County portion of the Chino Hills State Park. … Read More
While the official fire perimeter has NOT been released because it is still an active event, we digitized the perimeter provided by CAL FIRE from the briefing this morning and have estimated (not confirmed) that roughly 7,960 acres of Chino Hills State Park have burned. This amounts to 56% of the State Park. Again, this is just an estimate pulling together sources from publicly available maps and overlaying the data.