Fires close SR299, evacuations ordered

"The Paradise Fire north of Shelter Cove is about 815 acres and 35% contained. Calfire reported significant progress on the blaze Thursday, despite tough fire fighting conditions. Fire crews and aircraft have also been able to take advantage of higher humidity and fog at night."

It went from 50 acres to 815 in 3 days!! why did they wait so long??

Problem identification: We need rain.

Solution: Think rain.

Everybody think rain. Think big dark clouds quietly rolling in and filling the sky. Think big rain drops falling on your head. Imagine those big rain drops falling on the hills and putting out all the fires all over California.

Think rain.

Everybody think rain.

Call, email your friends, relatives and ask them to think rain.

Pass it along.

Friday eve: We're supposed to have
lightening strikes again tonight, but thankfully,there will be some rain also.
All we can do is wait and see.

over here in redding we are still surrounded by fires, and lots of smoke..listening to my scanner it does not look very good, new lightning storm moving in, very humid out right now, everyone do a pray for all the firefighters...

thanks for the update. I don't get the paper, I don't have a radio and no tv. I live outside Willow Creek and love to know what's going on around me.

Some updates as of 6:30 pm Saturday from USFS and CalFire (CDF):
NEW Alps Complex (Shasta-Trinity National Forest): 1,880 acres at five percent contained. This complex of 15 fires is three miles northeast of Burnt Ranch. Active fire behavior was reported. Residences are threatened.

Humboldt Complex (Humboldt-Del Norte Unit, Cal Fire): 1,225 acres at 50 percent contained. This complex of two fires is in Humboldt county. Several structures are threatened.

Iron Complex (Shasta-Trinity National Forest): 10,700 acres at five percent contained. This complex of 27 fires is one mile north of Junction City. Communities and a lookout are threatened. Highway 299 has restricted traffic flow.

SHU Lightning Complex (Shasta-Trinity Unit, Cal Fire): 35,000 acres at five percent contained. This complex of 70 fires is in Shasta and Trinity counties. Several communities and power generation system are threatened. Junction City, Platina, Corman Ranch, and power generation systems are threatened. Several communities were evacuated.

Whiskeytown Complex (Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, National Park Service): 3,600 acres at 10 percent contained. This complex of three fires is 12 miles west of Redding. Power lines and communication towers are threatened.

List of resources on Norcal fires
CAL FIRE has deployed the following fire and rescue resources and
activated the following personnel:
8,078 personnel
643 fire engines
217 crews
150 bulldozers
53 helicopters
11 fixed wing aircraft
168 water tenders
18 air resources from the National Guard have also been mobilized to
support firefighting activity

The websites are SO busy that it's almost impossible to get in, but try at
http://www.fire.ca.gov/index_incidents.php for CalFire
and
http://inciweb.org/ for the Forest Service

"It went from 50 acres to 815 in 3 days!! why did they wait so long??"
Ninja, Local resources were on this very rugged and difficult fire right away. Noone waited for 3 days. I know! We were there for the first 4 days hauling water.
You should be proud of Beginnings, Whale Gulch, Briceland, Palo Verde, Whitethorne, Honeydew, Shelter Cove fire departments. They are working so hard for many days straight.
So support your local volunteers. Donate money, lots of money.

hi - my son is at Ranch 717 as a counselor & we haven't heard from him for a few days - does anyone know what's happening there? We don't get much American news in NZ

Don't forget to rescue your chickens from your homesteads out there before they get fried.

mum in New Zealand wrote:

hi - my son is at Ranch 717 as a counselor & we haven't heard from him for a few days - does anyone know what's happening there? We don't get much American news in NZ

Check out kmud.org , it's a Humboldt radio station with good coverage. Also try calling CALFIRE, formerly known as CDF.

FOGHORN Leghorn wrote:

Don't forget to rescue your chickens from your homesteads out there before they get fried.

the ones that have gone wild will make it through OK

Guess you guys miss the loggers now. The Forest Service has busloads of recruits driving up and down the road. They don't get too dirty but they get three squares a day. Maybe the winds the buses stir up will drive some of the smoke out of the valley. Meanwhile the old bulldozers sit there idle, the old loggers unemployed and the forest burns all around us. What a lovely world brought to us by the Federal Government.

WC resident wrote:

thanks for the update. I don't get the paper, I don't have a radio and no tv. I live outside Willow Creek and love to know what's going on around me.

But you have a computer right? Fascinating. Go down to the picnic tables at the Patriot gas station and ask old Elmer (Mo) what's going on. He's like a newspaper but more factual.

a big old water bomber, from canada, landed on shasta lake this morning.Hope it is as good as all the pr is on this..It is so humid out and high 90's,scanner picking up fireman staging at oak bottom marina(whiskeytown lake).Still very smoky all around this area..check out Redding.Com for the latest updates...oh what i'd do to be back in my hometown of Arcata right now....

You can listen to live fire scanner for Shasta, Trinity and Tehama areas online at
http://norcalscan.org/live.html

Click on "Listen Live" on the left side of the page.

mum in New Zealand wrote:

hi - my son is at Ranch 717 as a counselor & we haven't heard from him for a few days - does anyone know what's happening there? We don't get much American news in NZ

Hello, I am with one of the security crews at the Fairground in Hayfork. I have not heard of anything bad at this time with Bar 717. I am sure he would have called you by now if he was in some state of emergency.

I will see what I can find out, nevertheless, I bleieve it is all okay.

In Hayfork nt far from Bar 717

mum in new zealand:
hopefully you've heard from your son by now. My son was scheduled to attend camp at Bar 717 (obviously camp has been cancelled). The camp is totally safe but is being used by the CDF as a base camp. Your son has been busy taking care of the firefighters and manning water filling equipment. He'll have some great stories when he returns home! Let me know if you have not heard from him and I will forward emails. my email address is: sukell@comcast.net

anyone know if fires reached Poker Bar just 8 miles East of Douglas City.Have property there and on able to find out anuthing yet..

any informatiom on Poker Bar 8 miles east of Douglas city

WC resident wrote:

thanks for the update. I don't get the paper, I don't have a radio and no tv. I live outside Willow Creek and love to know what's going on around me.

my parents live off 299 willow creek..... whats the status....... they live right above hoopa.....
??????????
thanks in Oregon.