Thursday, July 1, 2010

[californiadisasters] Anniversary Reminder



Reminder from:   californiadisasters Yahoo! Group
 
Title:   1985 Las Pilitas Fire
 
Date:   Thursday July 1, 2010
Time:   1:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Repeats:   This event repeats every year.
Location:   San Luis Obispo Co./Los Padres National Forest
Notes:   This afternoon at about this time in 1985 an automobile sparked a fire that would go on to burn for over a week and scorch 74,640 acres and burn 12 homes.

At one point it would jump the Salinas Reservoirs/Santa Margarita Lake en route to running up into the Los Padres National Forest.

It forced US101 to be closed for multiple days and a 7,000+ acre firing operation to be conducted to keep it from jumping the freeway to the west.

This same area would be 9 years later in the Highway 41 but that fire would successfully jump US101 from the west to the east

On the 8th, pushed by strong down-slope winds in the wee hours of the morning it would make a major run at the eastern margins of the City and San Luis Obispo forcing firefighters to house-to-house fight it in resident's backyards.
 
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