California Fires – Southern California is on fire Monday morning with a dozen wildfires burning 36,000 acres, forcing thousands to flee as walls of flame swept down bone-dry hillsides.
Here’s a map of the Southern California fires:
Here are the latest news and pictures, along with a summary of where the fires are Monday morning at 7:00AM PST.
Santa Ana wind gusts are range from 20 mph to top winds measured at 80 mph, so the fires are leapfrogging containment zones. Windblown embers are sparking new fires as much as 3 miles away from existing ones.
California Fires
Agua Dulce Fire – Has burned more than 13,000 acres and destroyed 17 buildings. More than 300 firefighters are battling the blaze, which has forced 800 evacuations and caused one serious injury.
Castaic Fire – 13,000 acres burned in the last 24 hours and still going strong.
Coronado Hills Fire – Small 400 acre fire threatening San Marcos with Cal State San Marco ordered evecuated in the middle of the night.
Irvine Fire – Roared out of Santiago Canyon last night right up to the 278 and threatening densely populated areas.
Malibu Fire – Four fires swept Malibu Sunday, destroying 2,400 acres and 5 buildings including area landmark Hodges Castle and Malibu Presbyterian Church.
Roca Fire – Ventura County blaze covering 300 acres, one home destroyed.
San Marcos Fire – Same fire as the Coronado Hills one, just different name.
San Pasqual Fire – Started by a power transformer explosion near Highway 78 east of San Diego Zoo. Also called Harris fire, it’s burned 14,000 acres and killed one person.
Witch Fire – 6,000 acre blaze has forced entire city of Ramona to be evacuated because this wildfire has merged with the one in San Pasqual Valley, aka the Harris fire.
“There is a high potential the Witch fire will enter our city limits,” Mayor Jerry Sanders said late Sunday night. “This is a very quickly evolving situation.”
California fire fighters use Super Scooper planes to douse flames:
And that’s the latest update on the California fires.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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October 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Can someone tell me about ramona CA. I’ve family there and don’t know where they are
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
erna, Ramona was evacuated at 10:00pm last night, I live in Poway, most of the people from Ramona went to the Poway community center evacuation site, and from what my mom tells me there are alot of people camped out in from of the stater brothers across the street from the fire station…Central Poway is one of the boarder areas between 2 fire evacuation line, alot of the KUSI/NBS maps are incorect, they say the the boarder for the which creek fire is twin peak which on the maps is about 2 miles farther north then is shown on the maps, acording to the maps the 2 evac line but against each other forming on large area but really there is a gap about 2×5 miles, which includes shouth/central Poway, Sabre Springs area that has not been given the order to evacuate yet
October 24th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Property damage from the onslaught of wildfires in San
Diego County reached $1 billion, authorities said this morning
October 24th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Is there fire anywhere near San Clemente?
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Does anyone know if there was fire along High Valley Road in Poway?I have family who lives there and I haven’t heard from them
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