10 Homes Destroyed in Holiday Fire

Not a Chinese hoax, folks ... sure it's been hot before and there have been fires before, but records keep getting broken; 3 times as many heat records as cold records. This is just one of many lines of evidence that show that the Earth's atmosphere is warming due to the increasing amount of greenhouse gases, which slow the escape of heat (while not blocking the incoming solar radiation) ... and carbon isotope signatures show clearly that the increased CO2 is the result of the burning of fossil fuels. It's because of all the evidence that there's an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that AGW is a fact ... not because they're paid to say so or any of the other malarkey coming from the deniers driven by ideology and economics, not a search for the truth. We now have the internal documents that show that the same fossil fuel companies that spent millions upon millions of dollars to spread confusion and uncertainty, themselves knew for decades that human-induced global warming is real.

did anyone else NOT get the alerts feom the County on their phone, text, or email? I got the alerts about the heat warning yesterday, but nothing about the Holiday Fire or the evacuation zones.

Does anyone know what the situation is at the SBWCN? Thanks. It's located at the end of Fairview, across the street from Hoilday Hill.

Re SBWCN: Last I heard, some staff and volunteers were able to enter the area late last night and evacuate some (all? not sure) of the animals. Don't know anything more than that - hopefully, they will post when they are able.

KEYT and Beth Farnsworth have been great! She saw smoke and some small fires in front of a house last night, and she said to herself, if I can just find a hose, I could put this out. She's brave!

10a.m. Sat.--- 104 degrees Winchester Gun Club, 101 Upper East Riviera, 102 Toro Canyon, 90 Samarkand, 97 Painted Cave, from Weather Underground.

I sent this in to Edhat Staff, but I thought I would share in the comments for now. My daughter took a great timelapse video last night. This was taken from the top of "The Knoll" subdivision off Patterson, about 2 miles from the fire. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/66h7NJjt0A8 Amazing watching the bulldozers and helicopters at work!

KEYT has been great again, and along with Edhat we're getting more info than many cities our size would have in emergencies. Seems like it's getting better all the time too! There's less on SBitZ.NET so far this time, though some stuff was posted last night and a little more in the last hour. Go SBCFD!

HOLAZOLA, a big thank you and your daughter for this amazing video. Thank you for posting the link. Amazing!

Listening to scanners? What's the fire doing this afternoon? Any volunteers, please!

108 degrees Kinevan Ranch, 104 Winchester Cyn Gun Club, 107 Paradise Rd., 102 Painted Cave, 102 San Marcos Pass, 87 Goleta East--Saturday, 2:45pm. Weather Underground.

Heads up for anyone driving to mountains to cool off: San Bernardino CA-251 PM PDT SAT JUL 7 2018
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM PDT FOR SAN
BERNARDINO COUNTY..."At 234 PM PDT, a report of a mud flow 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep
over Highway 38 about 1/2 mile north of the Forest Falls junction.At 249 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated that the thunderstorms producing heavy rain had at least temporarily dissipated across the
warned area. However, more thunderstorms could develop which will have the potential to do flooding through 400 PM over the San Bernardino Mountains between Big Bear Lake and Forest Falls."

Destroyed homes chart in Holiday Fire: https://twitter.com/ai6yrham?lang=en

80% containment, some mandatory evac areas are now voluntary.

Details at readysbc.org

Thank you first responders. We appreciate you.
You rock!

Has anyone checked on Roger? Just wondering....

Thank you to all who gave information about the Holiday Fire. Your information and photos were so helpful and I encourage you to do the same, helpful information, next time. Details are good.

Tools: Water hose, mop (cotton long string), buckets of water, fire extinguisher, cell phone (charged), full gas tank, goggles & face mask-- https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/334-353.pdf

Can you please update news on power outage and when it will be restored? No news sources doing this. Kind of critical info.

95 degrees Paradise Rd., 91 Toro Canyon, 92 Gibraltar Peak, 89 San Marcos Pass, 90 Laguna, 89 Winchester Cyn Gun Club, 11am, Sunday, July 8, Weather Underground.

My comment is about the use of twitter and access to emergency information. I don't have a TV and only have an internet and my cell phone. Should the internet go down, I have my cell phone, if that goes out (like it did during thomas fire) I have nothing except my weather radio (which is useless for emergency info), I'm going to look into an emergency radio or police scanner.

One of my "small beefs" was hard it was to access the threat. The website sent me to TWITTER (so twitter is the main source of emergency info??) I just found that odd. On my cellphone I had to create an account on twitter to view the info for any length of time. I ended up using the emergencysb (I think that's the url) and just constantly updating it, looking for any critical evacuation warnings.

Any thoughts on this?

BRUCEGO, thank you for sharing your experiences. Important. News and decisions, when under pressure. The topic of the day. I don't have an answer, but, like you, want to hear from people who have solutions. I'm all ears...errr...eyes.

Fire embers coming into your yard, if the fire is not too close: wear cotton (NO polyester) long sleeve shirt and long pants - protect fragile skin, gloves, face mask, goggles, hat. Heavy boots (cowboy boots, hiking boots) if you have them. To put out embers, use shovels of sand or dirt, water hose, buckets of water, wet mop (cotton long string) to bash out small embers. Fire extinguisher is good but only lasts a few minutes. Only do this as a last resort if you can't evacuate...or weren't informed that the fire is coming in your direction.

"Chinese hoax" and other simple-minded rumors of that ilk are FALSE. Universally, new studies, long-term statistics and information that can be substantiated confirm that global warming is a FACT. For those who refuse to let facts enter their belief system the world remains flat and the sun revolves around the Earth and always will. Trying to get them to use logic and reason is a waste of your time and effort. It's like arguing with a fanatic True Believer of any religion. It would be more productive to iron your socks.

Congratulations to all fire fighters and first responders! Jobs well done. Edhat Staff, jobs well done. Media jobs well done. Wildlife Care Network (job well done) still fundraising. Please don't forget about them. They underestimated the costs and initially were trying to raise only $20,000, now they've raised it to a more reasonable $30,000. They've raised $18,150 at gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/holiday-fire-wildlife-relief

thank you firefighters