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Chopper landing at Eel River Conservation Camp Staging Area Yesterday Overview map of most of the fires in California Eureka Reporter overview of our area Mendocino County links: Latest Mendocino information overview map detail Maps of some Mendocino fires with personal emails updating the situation West of Ukiah Photos from the fires. Photos from Navarro fire near Willits Photo and
Read moreSmoke and Grass–Humboldt is famous for the two The Lightning Fires currently raging throughout Mendocino are now getting better coverage. There are several good maps and CalFire is providing frequent and informative updates. However, in spite of the weather cooperating, the remaining 54 active fires are increasing in size. At this time though, there are no mandatory evacuations just precautionary
Read moreMendocino Lightning Complex map Excellent update on Mendocino blazes from CalFire here at download. The Paradise fire in Humboldt CalFire fact sheet can be found here. UPDATE: I was so tired when I wrote this last night I forgot to point people to Cristina’s blog–especially this post for info about the Red Mountain fire.
Read moreFirefighting Equipment Photo by Kim Sallaway There is no fire in Myers Flat. KMUD reported a possible fire in the area but a quick call to the Myers Flat store provided information that while Weott’s Volunteer Fire Crew had responded there was no fire. (Thanks you all) {EDIT: Ernie tells me that there was a motorhome fire on the freeway
Read moreFire helicopter Links and Information: CalFire Report for entire state of California Total Fires: 1,032 Acres involved: 132,235 Structures Destroyed: 17 residences, 1 commercial, 19 outbuildings to date. The following contains local fire information phone #’s in red alphabetically by county–also blogs, other links of interest and other important information added to CalFire information Amador-El Dorado Unit:(530) 647-5218 All fires
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