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California WILDFIRES
on the WEB, 2004
For
general descriptions of going large Southern CA fires, follow the SoCal Situation
Report link on the links page under NEWS
or check the FireNews page.
Take a look at NIFC's info on Current
Large Fires or the National
Large Fires Map
(Click on the circle on the map for more info).
Check also
California Fire Maps
and Geomac.
All the fires burning in the National Parks can be found at the
NPS Fire Site.
For updated SoCal fire info there's the simple but persistent South
Ops News & Notes.
There's also the info from the
Riverside Fire Dept and links to other news sources at the bottom of
this page.
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Location |
Command |
Fire
Name
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Size
(acres)
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Dates
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| Yosemite National Park, adjacent to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir,
NPS |
NPS |
Hetchy
Fire
last report 10/16/04article about fire & suspected arsonist
another
article |
2,000 acres
100% contained |
10/15-10/20/04 |
| Kyburz area near Wrights Lake Road N of the Highway 50, Eldorado NF |
Szczepanik's Type II IMT |
Freds
Fire |
7,700 acres
100% contained |
10/13-10/20/04 |
| N of the Salt Springs Powerhouse on the Mokelumne River
Canyon, 17 mi E of Pioneer, Eldorado NF |
McCombs IIMT3 & Unified Command with CDF
(Wendt's NorCal Team 2) |
Power
Fire |
16,800 acres
100% contained |
10/6-10/21/04 |
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| 18 mi S of Williams, Rumsey Canyon, Yolo Co., CDF Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit |
CDF ICT#5, Streblow |
Rumsey Fire |
39,138 acres
100% contained |
10/10-10/15/04 |
| 11 mi E of Groveland |
Gelobter's CIIMT 4 |
Tuolumne
Fire |
800 acres
100% contained |
9/12-9/17/04 |
| Mariposa,
CDF
Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit |
CDF ICT#8, Henson |
Old Highway Fire |
1,347
100% contained |
9/12-9/14/04 |
| Cajon Pass, San Bernardino Co. |
Walker's Type 2 IMT |
Runway Fire |
1,193
100% contained |
9/7-9/9 |
| 6 mi NE of Geyserville |
CDF ICT#5, Streblow |
Geysers Fire |
12,525
100% contained |
9/3-9/8/04 |
| Calaveras Co, (TCU), Pattison Road, 2 mi N of Burson |
CDF ICT#6, Haines |
Pattison Fire |
2,676
100% contained |
9/3-9/5/04 |
| Mariposa
Co, (MMU), Mormon Hills Area, 3 mi S of Mariposa |
K. Smith, IC |
Bear Fire |
416
100% contained |
9/2-9/4/04 |
| Located on both sides of Trinity Mountain, south of the
community of French Gulch |
CDF ICT#3, Lutts |
French Fire |
12,898
100% contained |
8/14-8/20/04 |
| Tule River Drainage, 16 mi E of Springville; Sequoia NF |
Gelobter's CIIMT 4 |
Deep Fire
Photos 1
Photos 2
Photos 3 |
3,143+
100% contained |
8/12-8/17/04 |
| Jones Valley near Redding CA |
CDF ICT#2, Chuchel |
Bear Fire |
10,484
100% contained |
8/11-8/15/04 |
| 16 mi E of Groveland CA |
Rios Type II Team |
Early Fire |
1,670
100% contained |
8/9-8/15/04 |
| Oregon Gulch Road at Potters Ranch
Road - West side of Lake Oroville near the Community of Cherokee |
Ellis = IC |
Oregon Fire |
2030
100% contained |
8/11-8/13/04 |
| Hunt Road at Salt Springs Valley Road in Copperopolis,
CDF Tuolumne-Calaveras
Unit |
Miller = IC |
Hunt Fire |
600
100% contained |
8/10-8/13/04 |
| NE of Colfax, CDF Nevada, Yuba, Placer Unit |
CDF ICT#1, Durden |
Stevens Fire |
934
100% contained |
8/8-8/11/04 |
| Hwy 4/ Hwy 49 Angels Camp, 4 mi SW of Copperopolis,
Calaveras Co. CDF Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit |
CDF ICT#7, Heil |
Calaveras Complex Armstrong, Mineral,
Copper |
4,411
100%contained |
8/7-8/10/04 |
| Grouse Creek NW of Hyampom (17 mi S of Willow Creek),
Humboldt & Trinity Counties |
Szczepanik's NorCal
1 Team |
Sims Fire
photosNorCal 1
Team site |
4,030
100% contained |
7/29-8/2/04 |
| 20 mi SE of Fall River Mills, Lassen Co. |
CDF #4, Snell |
Straylor Fire |
3,422
100% contained |
7/22-7/29/04 |
Foothill Fire: SE of Newhall
Crown Fire: SE of Acton |
Unified Command
Bryant's LAC Team
Cable's CIIMT5 |
Foothill / Crown Fires
Foothill
Crown
photos |
6,002
& 100%
18,026
& 100% |
7/17-7/22/04
7/20-7/23/04 |
| Pine Canyon/Highway 138; N side of Liebre Mountain, N of LA |
Unified Command
Mel Hokanson's LAC IMT 4 &
Aaron Gelobter's CIIMT 3 |
Pine Fire |
17,418
100% contained |
7/12-7/21/04 |
| Jalama Beach Campground, Santa Barbara Co. |
Craig Thomas |
Jalama Fire |
307
100% contained |
7/20-7/21 |
| Sage area, 5 mi S of Hemet |
CDF #9, Kerrigan |
Melton Fire |
3,667
100% contained |
7/17-7/20/04 |
| NE of Warner Springs, San Diego Co. |
CDF #10, Winton
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Mataguay Fire |
8,867
100% contained
|
7/13-7/15/04 |
| N side of Mokelumne Canyon approx. 2.5 mi E of Salt Springs
Reservoir. A mile S of Mokelumne Peak, Eldorado NF |
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Moke
Fire |
400 acres
100% contained |
6/12-6/24/04 |
| 15 mi W of Santa Barbara, 4 air miles from President Regan's
ranch |
CDF #8
Rick Henson, ICSanta Barbara County Fire Dept., CDF and US Forest Service
operating under Unified Command... |
Gaviota Fire |
7,440
100 % contained |
6/5-6/11/04 |
Los Padres NF
12 mi NE of Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara Co. |
Jim Smith's Type 2 IMT |
Cachuma Fire
LPF-733
Photos |
1,127
100% contained |
5/3-5/8/04 |
| SE of the city of Temecula, Riverside Co. |
CDF #8, Hutchinson |
Eagle Fire &
photos
RRU-35190
photos on wlf.com
HPWren cam photos
Incident Info Fact Sheet
(pdf) |
8,900
100% contained |
5/2-5/7/04 |
| SE of Corona, Riverside Co. |
CDF #9, Anderson |
Cerritos Fire
RRU-35517
Incident Info Fact Sheet (pdf) |
16,400
100% contained |
5/3-5/7/04 |
| Sage Rd at School House, community of Sage, E of Temecula,
Riverside Co. |
|
School Fire
RRU-35567
Incident Info Fact Sheet
|
377
100% contained |
5/3-5/5/04 |
| Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, San Diego Co. |
Walker's Type 2 IMT |
India Fire
MCP-10421
www.kfmb.com
Brush Fires at Camp Pendleton |
2,040
100% contained |
5/2-5/5/04 |
| Lost Rd and Canyon Hills Trail, near Lake Elsinor,
Wildomar, Riverside Co. |
|
Gafford Fire
RRU-36197
Incident Information Fact Sheet |
450
100% contained |
5/2-5/5/04 |
| Foolish Pleasure Rd x Hwy 371, Anza, Riverside Co. |
|
Pleasure Fire
now contained
Story. |
4,264
100%
contained |
4/25-4/28/04 |
| 1 mi. S of City of Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino Co. |
|
Upper Santa Ana Burn Escape pdf
map |
350
100%
contained |
3/25-3/31/04 |
| Santa Monica Mts National Recreation Area |
|
Palisades Park Fire |
100% contained |
1/22- |
SoCal news media:
- CBS Channel 2 (Los Angeles, Firewatch video
clip with Internet Explorer)
- KABC Channel 7
(Los Angeles, slideshow and video of fires)
- NBC Channel 4 (SoCal, several slideshows
and video)
- TheSanDiegoChannel.com
(San Diego, maps, interactive, video)
- Sign on SanDiego.com
(San Diego, video - must have RealPlayer)
- CBS Channel 8 San Diego
- Los Angeles Times (Los
Angeles, requires a
no-cost sign in)
- LA Dailynews
- North County Times (San Diego
& Riverside, articles
only)
- Riverside Press-Enterprise
(Riverside, requires a no-cost sign in)
- San Bernardino Sun (San
Bernardino, a little
slow probably because of heavy traffic)
- San Diego Daily Transcript
(San Diego, requires a no-cost sign in)
- San Diego Union-Tribune
(San Diego, map, video)
- Ventura County Star
(Ventura Co., not much fire info)
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Desert Sun (Palm Springs)
NorCal news media:
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