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    Some Mandatory Evacuation Orders Lifted

    Approximately 1,000 People Able to Return Home


    Saturday, November 15, 2008
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    After a series of conflicting reports from various emergency officials, it now seems to be true that all evacuation warnings have been canceled and certain mandatory evacuations have been canceled. This means that approximately 1,000 people who had been evacuated will now be able to return home. There was some confusion about the matter previously, but Sheriff Bill Brown read of a list of areas now open at a press conference at 2 p.m. today.

    The list of areas no longer under evacuation orders now includes:

    Ashley Road and all roads east

    Mission Canyon below Tunnel Road (Mission Canyon north of Tunnel Road is still closed, however.)

    Alameda Padre Serra west of Arbolado to Mission (All roads north of Alameda Padre Serra (APS) between Arbolado and Five-Points remain closed, however.)

    Eucalyptus Hill Road and all other adjacent access roads

    Alameda Padre Serra (APS) east from Five-Points to Barker Pass is closed, but residents of Overlook Lane are permitted in if they have identification. (Barker Pass Road between Eucalyptus Hill Road and Sycamore Canyon will remain closed, however.)

    The eastern boundary of the evacuation area is now Ashley Road from East Mountain Road to California Highway 192. On the southeastern end, the new boundary is Highway 192 from Ashley Road to Barker Pass and Barker Pass from Highway 192 to APS. (Barker Pass between Eucalyptus Hill Road and Sycamore Canyon is closed, however.)

    On the southern edge, the evacuation divider is Alameda Padre Serra (APS) from Barker Pass Road to Arbolado Road, Arbolado Road from Alameda Padre Serra to Mission Ridge Road and Mission Ridge Road north from Arbolado Road to Highway 192.

    And, finally, the western boundary is now Highway 192 from Mission Ridge Road to Mission Canyon Road and Mission Canyon Road from Highway 192 north to the end of the road.

    The following roadblocks are still in effect:

    Sycamore Canyon and Cold Spring

    Tunnel Road and Mission Canyon

    Sycamore Canyon at Barker Pass

    Foothill Lane at Mountain

    Las Canoas at Mission Ridge

    Stanwood at Mission Ridge

    Las Alturas at Mission Ridge

    Arbolado at APS (Alameda Padre Serra)

    Loma Media at APS

    Las Alturas at APS

    Sycamore Canyon at Five-Points

    Barker Pass at Eucalyptus Hill (Residents on Overlook are okay if they have identification.)

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    Where is Alameda Padre Serra? I don't think such a street exists.

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    ty (anonymous profile)
    November 15, 2008 at 2:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

    I'm sure Ty is joking, but for any visitors, Alameda Padre Serra is also known as APS.

    randy (Randy Campbell)
    November 15, 2008 at 2:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

    lived here long? Read a map lately?

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    RCMeltzer (anonymous profile)
    November 15, 2008 at 3:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

    Maybe Ty is one of the LA-LA-land reporters or even one of the few government officials who call it:
    "Alameda Padre SIERRA."

    Good to see comments by Randy Campbell, but, dude, you are entitled to take off the rest of the week (or maybe the office is functional home now?).

    As for the opening of this news article, indeed "conflicting reports" were out when the email correction sent out by EOC at 1226 today left a huge ambiguity about whether the evacuation order still applied from their news release at 1100 today.

    Hopefully local Emergency officials simply will not try to release news from hasty email messages and simply issue a whole new News Release instead, even if the message simply is that the Evacuation Warning area no longer is under that status and was not mentioned in the recently prior, separate news release.

    The Rincon radio stations were thrown off too.

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    David_Pritchett (David Pritchett)
    November 15, 2008 at 3:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)

    Las Canoas doesn't intersect Mission Ridge, so I am thinking they mean Mission Canyon, right? That was how I was thinking of trying to get back home tomorrow....I really want to go home.

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    mtndriver (anonymous profile)
    November 15, 2008 at 4:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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