Comments by keisaacson
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Posted on August 15 at 9:41 a.m.
How much info should the public know? Well, this small portion of the public would sure like to know what is expected for the northeast portion of the fire. I understand why most folk are enthused that the fire is marching north and east, away from Santa Barbara. But me, I live northeast of the fire, and got up this morning to discover my house is within the expanded closure of the Los Padres Forest. (I live in Pine Mountain Club, north of the Chumash Wilderness.) Although the fire is 15-20 miles away as the condor flies, I'm uneasy: what has them worried enough that they've closed this area, and should I be worried, too? Is the fire going to skip over highway 33 and keep coming?
It's Day Fire deja vu, all over again. (To be clear: we're NOT under an evacuation warning. But is it time to start packing?)
Information, please! :-)
Karen
On How Much Info Should the Public Know? (Zaca Fire Bulletin Board)
Posted on August 13 at 5:37 p.m.
I'd be more alarmed without Ray's accurate reporting, because then I'd be sitting here in a sea of smoke wondering WHAT was going on. Please, keep telling us straight. And thanks for making a very complex fire at least somewhat understandable.
On How Much Info Should the Public Know? (Zaca Fire Bulletin Board)
Posted on August 10 at 8:29 a.m.
Another good source of information on the fire (since InciWeb
is sometimes overloaded and inaccessible) is the Santa Barbara
County Fire Department website at http://www.sbcfire.com/
Posted on July 19 at 3:48 p.m.
Just wanted to say how much I appreciate these detailed reports
from Ray Ford on the Zaca Fire. I've backpacked San Rafael
Mountain, and the Big Pine Mountain area. While I know the
brush has to burn over for a healthy forest, I hope the lovely
pine woods aren't ravaged like the ones on Sewart Mountain
were by last year's Day Fire....
Karen
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Posted on August 25 at 9:49 a.m.
I was driving north on 33 on August 8th (two days before the big backfire strategy was announced), and saw the fire fighters building the lower part of the hand line shown in Ray's photograph near the beginning of this article. The terrain is even more vertical than you'd guess from the picture. I was amazed.
And clueless as to what they were doing, or why. Now I finally know. Thanks, Ray!
Do consider Tabatha's suggestion. A book about this fire would be totally awesome.
On Zaca Fire May Be In Final Stages