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Southland Wildfire Resources

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on January 7, 2025 with No Comments

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

Wildfire Cameras Installed

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on November 16, 2020 with No Comments

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

Fire at 14,334 Acres

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on October 28, 2020 with No Comments

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

Blue Ridge Fire Burns 56% of State Park

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on October 28, 2020 with No Comments

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.

Sign the Petition

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on December 8, 2019 with No Comments

The state hasn’t learned the lessons related to wildfire. For nearly 15 years the California Chaparral Institute has been advocating for a better outcome than vegetation removal on all our wildlands as the “answer” to stopping wildfire. It doesn’t work–we have dozens of fires to point to as proof. On Wednesday, December 11th, CalFire will consider approving its Vegetation Treatment Program’s Environmental Impact Report. The plan is to target 20 MILLION acres of native California habitat and destroy it–in the name of … Read More