Info/Links on 1026 California wildfires Crosspost from Env/Enerrgy

[fed-up]

lots of links at this post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=157462&mesg_id=157462
fed-up (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-25-08 05:01 PM
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Info/links on California 1026 wildfires-Nat Geo NASA news etc-air is hazardous in Valley


and a few more stories not at above thread

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/25/BA9611F182.DTL&tsp=1

Bad air quality is about to get worse as state fires keep burning
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 25, 2008


(06-25) 17:06 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The smoke is getting smokier in the Bay Area from the hundreds of blazes, big and small, that have swept through dangerously dry Northern and Central California.

The air in parts of the North Bay and East Bay will officially be "unhealthy" and "unhealthy for sensitive groups" on Thursday, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Today, air pollution is only "moderate."
"We've gone up a step," said district spokeswoman Kristine Roselius. "It's terrible. There are just so many fires out there, and the smoke is coming down and impacting the Bay Area."
Seniors and children should stay inside with the windows closed if possible, a tough thing to do on a sunny summer day.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/24/state/n150800D07.DTL

Smoke-shrouded Calif. scrambles to fight wildfires
By AMANDA FEHD, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, June 25, 2008


(06-25) 17:14 PDT Berkeley, Calif. (AP) --
Hundreds of homes in the scenic community of Big Sur were threatened by a wildfire that already had burned 16 residences and was just 3 percent contained Wednesday.
About 700 wildfires, many of them sparked by a severe electrical storm over the weekend, burned across much of the state, a point driven home for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as he traveled to central California to assess the damage there.
"I just took off with the plane down from Los Angeles and, literally from Los Angeles all the way up here, there was smoke, so you can see that there's fire everywhere," Schwarzenegger noted at a news conference in Monterey County.

[beltanefauve]

1. Thanks for this

I'm in Oakland, one exit away from the site of the 1991 firestorm which killed 23 people. Two weekends ago, a brush fire started in the exact same place, but fortunately was contained within 90 minutes. Meanwhile, I haven't seen a blue sky in many days, and you can smell fire everywhere, all the time. I imagine it is much worse where you are.

I've been looking for some sort of interactive map of California where you can click on each individual fire and get its current status. Does such a thing exist?

[beltanefauve]

2. Found it

from your other thread. Thank you again!
http://www.fire.ca.gov/index_incidents.php