Friday, September 30, 2011

[californiadisasters] [LAFD] This Saturday in Granada Hills: North Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair



Dear Friend of the LAFD, 

The Los Angeles Fire Department and City Councilmember Mitchell Englander invite you to the 4th Annual: 

North Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair
Saturday, October 1, 2011
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Los Angeles Fire Department
Station 87
10124 Balboa Boulevard
Granada Hills, CA 91344


An informative brochure is attached to this message. 

Sponsored jointly by the Northridge EastNorthridge WestNorthridge SouthGranada Hills SouthGranada Hills NorthLake Balboa and Chatsworth Neighborhood Councils, the North Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair is designed to help our neighbors be prepared for emergencies and disasters. 

Plenty of Food, Fun and Prizes! 

The sponsoring Neighborhood Councils will be giving away 300 emergency preparedness bags filled with disaster and emergency preparedness supplies (1 per family while supplies last). 

Free food will be served from noon until 2:00 PM, and a special drawing will be held for two backpacks filled with emergency supplies. Those wearing a CERT vest or bringing CERT identification to the event will receive a special appreciation gift.

Hands On, Up Close and Focused on the North San Fernando Valley!

Along with detailed preparedness information, plan to witness demonstrations and interact with local LAFDLAPDLADWPHAM Radio OperatorsCommunity Emergency Response Team (CERT) members as well as representatives from the National Weather Service and American Red Cross. 

It's a fun and free event for the whole family. Please don't forget your camera! 

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Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service, 

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Emergency Public Information (EPI) Center
Los Angeles Fire Department

"Serving with Courage, Integrity and Pride"

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[californiadisasters] Interactive Map: A History of Wildfires in CA



Interactive map: A history of wildfires in California

By Nathaniel Levine - Sacramento Bee

Published: Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Last Modified: Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 12:41 pm

Fire crews battle thousands of wildfires in California every year. This map shows areas burned in over 7,000 of the largest wildfires between 1950 and 2010. It includes data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and federal agencies including the U.S. Forest Service. The fires shown here all are estimated to have burned more than 100 acres, but the data does not include some grass fires that burned fewer than 300 acres.

Burned areas are represented as red shapes. Use the buttons below the map to select the time frame you wish to view (the map currently shows fires since the year 2000). Pan and zoom the map to focus on your area of interest. Click the satellite button to see what the burned areas look like today.

If the map is slow to load, try zooming in or out or panning the view.

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1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
1970 - 1979
1980 - 1989
1990 - 1999
2000 - 2010

The 20 largest fires, since 1950

Notes: Estimated acre figures shown here are based on the size of the fire perimeter illustrated. These estimates may vary significantly from the acreage reported burned at the time of the fire, often because of unburned "islands" within the fire perimeter. Damage figures are the estimated dollar cost of damage or loss caused by the fire. They do not include fire-fighting costs. While this map is based on the most comprehensive fire database available, fire officials warn that many fires may still be missing.

Source: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

With scripting by Bee web developer Marc Matteo

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[californiadisasters] South Ops News & Notes Update (09/30/11-6:30PM)



Date

Time

News and Notes

09/30

1830

Chihuahua 3 CA-MVU-010986

Chihuahua Valley - SRA\FRA Start Time:     16:22  50 acres, 0% contained

Moderate Rate of Spread 70°, 58% RH, 4 mph, NNW Structure Threat

No Infrastructure Threat Unified Command with CNF Heavy brush

09/30

1830

TAMARACK CA-YNP-3619 NW of Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County. Fire has burned 670 acres of brush in 8,9&10 fuel types and is 0 %percent contained. Incident is being managed for multiple objectives which include monitor/confine/contain. The fire crossed to the North side of the Tioga road at approx. 1430 hrs and had sustained 20 mph winds for several hours with Spotting, Short Runs, Creeping and Smoldering. Tioga road has reopened to one way traffic control. Tioga road is a major corridor through the park, its closures have potential negative impacts to our visitors.

09/30

0800

TAMARACK CA-YNP-3619 Northwest of Yosemite valley, Mariposa County.

Fire has burned 480 acres of brush and 8,9&10 fuel types. Incident is being managed for multiple objectives which include monitor/confine/contain

Source: http://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/predictive/intelligence/news_notes/index.htm

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Re: [californiadisasters] Mass Casualty Passenger Rail (Contra Costa Co.)



That is correct. It would have been train number 718. They are coming out of a curve there and are accelerating to their max speed of 79 MPH.

Regards,

-Frank C.
KG6NLW/WQMI352
WQNW603/WPBB813



On Sep 30, 2011, at 21:09, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

KCBS radio in San Francisco is reporting it's the San Joaquin that was en route from Oakland to Bakersfield with 2004 on board.... 35 injured with 16 being sent to the hospital.

Kimmer

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Frank C. <mdt@franksrails.com> wrote:
 

It is Amtrak California. Negative casualties, minor injuries to about 16 people on board the train from last report. CalStar and REACH were dispatched. CHP Log #2276. Thomas Brothers 597 7D

Regards,

-Frank C.
KG6NLW/WQMI352
WQNW603/WPBV813


On Sep 30, 2011, at 20:43, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I am getting a first report of an Amtrak (maybe a Caltrain instead?) colliding with a tractor trailer near Knightsen in Contra Costa County with 30-50 casualties. Any word out there?

Kimmer

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Re: [californiadisasters] Mass Casualty Passenger Rail (Contra Costa Co.)



KCBS radio in San Francisco is reporting it's the San Joaquin that was en route from Oakland to Bakersfield with 2004 on board.... 35 injured with 16 being sent to the hospital.

Kimmer

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Frank C. <mdt@franksrails.com> wrote:
 

It is Amtrak California. Negative casualties, minor injuries to about 16 people on board the train from last report. CalStar and REACH were dispatched. CHP Log #2276. Thomas Brothers 597 7D

Regards,

-Frank C.
KG6NLW/WQMI352
WQNW603/WPBV813


On Sep 30, 2011, at 20:43, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I am getting a first report of an Amtrak (maybe a Caltrain instead?) colliding with a tractor trailer near Knightsen in Contra Costa County with 30-50 casualties. Any word out there?

Kimmer

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It is Amtrak California. Negative casualties, minor injuries to about 16 people on board the train from last report. CalStar and REACH were dispatched. CHP Log #2276. Thomas Brothers 597 7D

Regards,

-Frank C.
KG6NLW/WQMI352
WQNW603/WPBV813

On Sep 30, 2011, at 20:43, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I am getting a first report of an Amtrak (maybe a Caltrain instead?) colliding with a tractor trailer near Knightsen in Contra Costa County with 30-50 casualties. Any word out there?

Kimmer

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I am getting a first report of an Amtrak (maybe a Caltrain instead?) colliding with a tractor trailer near Knightsen in Contra Costa County with 30-50 casualties. Any word out there?

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[Geology2] As Gold Prices Soar, Bodie is Thrust From the Past



Mining interests see profits in the hills near the Eastern Sierra ghost town, but others say wilderness has value too. The issue divides local residents.

Reporting from Bodie, Calif. -- On a day when the price of gold soared above $1,700 an ounce, Jack Shipley drove past tourists strolling through this historic Eastern Sierra mining camp and up a rutted road to where a new breed of prospectors have set their sights.

The Bodie Hills hug the California-Nevada line in Mono County — thousands of acres of jagged volcanic summits, thick sagebrush, dry lakes and plunging canyons lined with aspens.

The hills are a paradox: Empty and wild yet shot through with hundreds of untapped mining claims dating to the 19th century.

"I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it," said Shipley, 66, who lived in Bodie, a ghost town turned state park, for a dozen years as its resident ranger. "But some of the most beautiful places here happen to be in the most concentrated mining zones."

A bumpy 10 miles west of Bodie, Shipley stops at such a place — one he wishes would be left to heal. The Paramount Mine yielded mercury for two decades, the last big haul in the Bodie Hills.

Left behind are rusted oil drums and pipes, piles of wood and a spooky open pit — signs of abandonment that belie the vast gold deposits some believe remain underground.

With gold prices up more than 600% in the last decade, corporate prospectors are revisiting dormant mines worldwide: a South Carolina mine that funded the Confederacy; abandoned mines in the hills of Transylvania; Roman mines that haven't been active for 2,000 years.

Among the seekers is Thomas Kaplan, a New York billionaire who's a paradox himself, a shrewd commodities investor with gold mining ventures on five continents and co-founder of a conservation group that seeks to preserve big cat habitat in China and India, among other countries.

"If I'm given a choice between conservation and business, conservation wins, always," Kaplan, an Oxford-educated historian, told Bloomberg BusinessWeek last year. He once spent $12 million to relocate a Bolivian village — its people, buildings, church, cemetery — to make way for a silver mine.

One of Kaplan's companies, Cougar Gold, is eyeing the Paramount claims in the Bodie Hills, a mix of private and federal land. The interest has reignited a debate in Mono County over whether this raw swath of high desert is more valuable as protected wilderness than as a source of mineral wealth.

The split can be seen in the county seat of Bridgeport, whose fortunes have been tied to the area's mining camps for 150 years.

Some in town see today's gold rush as a lifeline to good-paying jobs. Others sense a rerun of the past when the boom times were relatively brief, the bad times drawn out and the environmental damage lasting.

"There's a reason Bodie is a ghost town. Mining is a boom-and-bust industry," said Stacy Corless, executive director of the conservation group Friends of the Inyo. "There's still pollution up there left behind from mining 100 years ago. I'm worried about the legacy that's left to future generations when this boom goes bust."

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