I can't beleive it has been 2 full years since I was on the front lines working these fires. We had terrible structural loss over a 3 day period of Santa Ana wind driven fires. This is the topic of the 2007 Fire Season Video, now available by Zimmerman Media LLC.
Title: Slide Fire (Green Valley Lake Fire)
Date: Thursday October 22, 2007
Location: East of Lake Arrowhead/San Bernardino NF/San Bernardino Co.
Notes: On this morning in 2007 powerful Santa Ana Winds drove this fire towards the mountain communities of Green Valley Lake, Arrowbear, and Running Springs which were forced to evacuate.
The fire ultimately consumed 12,789 acres in those areas as well as 201 homes and 3 outbuildings.
Title: Grass Valley Fire
Date: Thursday October 22, 2007
Location: North of Lake Arrowhead/San Bernardino NF/San Bernardino Co.
Notes: In the early morning hours of this day in 2007 powerful Santa Ana Winds drove this fire through 1,247 acres of the San Bernardino Mountains where it ultimately consumed 174 homes and 2 outbuildings.
Title: Rice Canyon Fire
Date: Thursday October 22, 2007
Location: Fallbrook/San Diego Co.
Notes: In the early morning hours of this day in 2007 powerful Santa Ana Winds drove this fire into the Fallbrook area where it consumed 9,000 acres and 206 homes along with 2 businesses and 40 outbuildings and injured 5 firefighters.
Title: Buckweed Fire
Date: Wednesday October 21, 2009
Location: Santa Clarita Valley/Los Angeles County
Notes: An older child playing with matches started this Santa Ana Wind-driven fire which spread over 38,356 acres and destroyed 63 structures including many homes. Four people were injured.
Title: Harris Fire
Date: Wednesday October 21, 2009
Location: San Diego County
Notes: On this morning in 2007 hurricane-force Santa Ana Winds drove this fire from near the Mexican border over 90,440 acres to threaten Chula Vista and destroy 206 homes and kill one civilian and four members of a CalFire engine company and possibly four Mexican migrant workers.
Title: Poomacha Fire
Date: Friday October 23, 2009
Location: Palomar Mountain/San Diego County
Notes: In the wee hours of this morning in 2007 this fire began in a structure on the La Jolla Indian Reservation.
Drive by fierce Santa Ana Winds it moved off the rez and onto Palomar Mountain and beyond. It ultimately charred 50,176 acres, 143 homes and 77 outbuildings.
This fire also injured 21 firefighters.
Title: Piru Fire
Date: Friday October 23, 2009
Location: Piru/Fillmore/Los Padres NF/Ventura Co.
Notes: This afternoon in 2007 a fire began near Lake Piru and driven by fierce Santa Ana Winds pushed through the Topatopa Mountains to Hwy. 126 and bumped up against the town of Fillmore. In all, 63,991 acres were consumed along with 8 strucutures.
Ranch Wild Fire ANF:Interstate 5 and Templin Highway, wind driven Wildfire
Witch Wild Fire:San Diego
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