California Disasters Upcoming Events
2008 Marek Fire Anniversary
When:
Saturday, 12 October 2019
Where:
San Gabriel Mountain Foothills - Los Angeles County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Marek Fire started in the foothills above San Fernando on this morning and driven by fierce Santa Ana Winds ran across 4,824 acres over the course of which it also destroyed 40 homes, damaged 9 others, destroyed 2 commercial structures, damaged one other, and killed a man and his dog. The fire cost $4 million to fight.
Source: various
2008 Sesnon Fire Anniversary
When:
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Where:
Santa Susana Mountains - Los Angeles & Ventura Counties
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Sesnon Fire (also known as the Porter Ranch Fire) was a wildfire that broke out near the oil fields of Oat Mountain, north of Porter Ranch, California, on Monday October 13, 2008. The cause of this fire was a power line falling onto dry brush near a drainage area. A state of emergency was declared by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 13 in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties The fire burned more than 22 square miles (57 km2) and cost US$7.9 million to fight. This fire occurred with two others, one in San Diego County and another at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley. One person lost their life due to the low visibility on highways because of the smoke from the fire.
The Porter Ranch (Sesnon) fires sent shock waves through the southern California area, raging out of control and burning thousands of acres each day it kept burning. The governor of California as well as nbclosangeles.com reported that 62 buildings were destroyed in the fire, including 15 homes and nbclosaneles.com reported that 41 vehicles were destroyed. More importantly, there was one fatality due to fire on the 118 freeway, and 30 firefighters were injured during the course of trying to contain and extinguish the fire.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesnon_Fire
1999 16 Fire Anniversary
When:
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Where:
Rumsey Canyon to Lake Berryessa - Yolo to Napa Counties
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The same Diablo Wind event that drove the Jones & Pendola Fires also drove this arson-caused fire from a roadside fire along Highway 16 in Rumsey Canyon all the way down to the upper reaches of Lake Berryessa. In all, 40,000 acres were scorched in mere hours.
1999 Hector Mine Earthquake Anniversary
When:
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Where:
Mojave Desert - San Bernardino County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The 1999 Hector Mine earthquake occurred on October 16 at 02:46:50 PDT with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The strike-slip earthquake occurred in a remote part of the Mojave Desert, 47 miles (76 km) east-southeast of Barstow, California, inside the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base. Its name comes from a nearby quarry named Hector Mine, which is located 22 kilometers (14 mi) northwest of the epicenter.
The earthquake was felt throughout Southern California, as well as in Las Vegas, Nevada. Many people were awakened in Las Vegas, with many reporting dizziness or trouble walking. Reports were filed as far north as Carson City, Nevada, where one woman reported waking up, hearing chimes in her house ringing.
Almost no damage was reported in the immediate area of the earthquake due to the remote location of the epicenter in the Mojave Desert, with no settlements for 14 miles in all directions; however, an Amtrak westbound Southwest Chief (train #3) became an unusual victim of the earthquake. The train was traveling very near the epicenter when the quake struck. The combined force of the quake and train caused several rails to come loose and the train derailed. Only minor injuries were reported, and the trainset suffered repairable damage.
It is thought that the earthquake may have been triggered by the 1992 Landers earthquake seven years prior, since the recurrence interval of large earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone is considered to be in the order of thousands of years.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Hector_Mine_earthquake
1999 Jones Fire Anniversary
When:
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Where:
Redding Area - Shasta County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
At about 3 A.M. Oct. 16, 1999 a campfire near the Pit River Arm of Lake Shasta whipped by Diablo Winds spread to surrounding brush and raged over the hills to the south towards the Redding area and didn't stop until it had reached an area South of the Redding Airport. This fire was named the Jones Incident burned 26,202 acres, 954 structures which included 174 homes.
This fire contributed to the #LODD death of Firefighter/EMT Karen Savage of the Hawkins Bar Volunteer Fire Department. Karen and the other firefighters with her stopped at a support vehicle to get supplies near the town of Bella Vista, 8 mi from Redding. As she stepped up on the running board to hand supplies to other firefighters on the engine, the vehicle began to move. Firefighter Savage fell or jumped off balance from the engine and died under its rear wheels. Her partner, Bob Feezer, also a volunteer firefighter, was on the scene and witnessed the accident.
Source: https://wlfalwaysremember.org/incident-lists/52-karen-savage.html and others
1999 Pendola Fire Anniversary
When:
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Where:
Sierra Nevada Foothills - Yuba County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Pendola Fire burned 11,725 acres beginning October 16, 1999. It was declared controlled on the 24th of October, 9 days after it started. In that time it destroyed 76 structures. At the height of the incident 2,505 fire fighting resources were assigned. These 2,505 resources represented 20 different agencies, municipalities, and private contractors. There were a number of local departments including: Camptonville Fire Department, Downieville Fire Department, North San Juan Fire Department, Foothill Fire Department, and Dobbins/Oregon House Fire Department. In addition to these various agencies there were many State and local agencies involved which included: State OES, CHP, Caltrans, Red Cross, PG&E, Pacific Bell; and from Yuba County, the Sheriff's Department, OES, Road Maintenance, Water Department, and Public Works.
Source: http://dohfd.com/Dobbins%20OH%20History2.html
1989 Loma Prieta Quake Anniversary
When:
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Where:
Santa Cruz Mountains - Santa Cruz County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC). The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With an Mw magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (to the degree that it was designated a seismic gap) until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August 1989.
Damage was heavy in Santa Cruz County and less so to the south in Monterey County, but effects extended well to the north into the San Francisco Bay Area, both on the San Francisco Peninsula and across the bay in Oakland. No surface faulting occurred, though a large number of other ground failures and landslides were present, especially in the Summit area of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Liquefaction was also a significant issue, especially in the heavily damaged Marina District of San Francisco, but its effects were also seen in the East Bay, and near the shore of Monterey Bay, where a non-destructive tsunami was also observed.
Because it happened during a national live broadcast of the 1989 World Series, it is sometimes referred to as the "World Series earthquake". Rush-hour traffic on the Bay Area freeways was lighter than normal because the game, being played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, was about to begin, and this may have prevented a larger loss of life, as several of the Bay Area's major transportation structures suffered catastrophic failures. The collapse of a section of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland was the site of the largest number of casualties for the event, but the collapse of man-made structures and other related accidents contributed to casualties occurring in San Francisco, Los Altos, and Santa Cruz.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake1991 Oakland Hills Fire Anniversary
When:
Sunday, 20 October 2019
Where:
Berkeley Hills - Alameda County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23. The official name of this incident by Cal Fire is the Tunnel Fire.[1] However, it is also commonly referred to as the Oakland Hills firestorm or the East Bay Hills fire. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (620 ha) destroyed included 2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units. The economic loss from the fire was estimated at $1.5 billion (1991 USD).
The fire started on Saturday, October 19, from an incompletely extinguished grass fire in the Berkeley Hills, northeast of the intersection of California State Routes 24 and 13 (0.5 mi (0.8 km) north of the Caldecott Tunnel west portal). Firefighters fought the 5-acre (2.0 ha) fire on a steep hillside above 7151 Buckingham Blvd., and by Saturday night they thought it was under control.
The fire re-ignited as a brush fire shortly before 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 20 and rapidly spread southwest, driven by wind gusts up to 65 mi (100 km) per hour. It quickly overwhelmed local and regional firefighting resources. By 11:30 a.m., the fire had spread to the nearby Parkwoods Apartments located next to the Caldecott Tunnel. Shortly before noon, the fire had been blown up to the top of Hiller Highlands to the west, from where it began its sweep down into the Hiller Highlands development and the southern hills of Berkeley. Burning embers from houses and vegetation were carried ahead of the fire line by torrid winds and started new blazes ahead of the original burn. Within thirty minutes the fire had crossed both Highway 24, an eight-lane freeway, and Highway 13, a four-lane freeway, eventually igniting hundreds of houses in the Forest Park neighborhood on the northwest edge of the Montclair district and in the upper Rockridge neighborhood. The fire eventually touched the edge of Piedmont, burning some municipal property, but the buildings and houses were spared.
The hot, dry northeasterly winds, dubbed as "Diablo winds" in reference to the Diablo mountain range, Diablo Valley, and surrounding geography of same name, periodically occur during the early fall season. These are similar to the Santa Ana winds in Southern California, and have been the cause of numerous devastating fires. The fire began generating its own wind, the defining characteristic of a firestorm. The superheated fire-driven winds combined with warmer, drier air east of the Oakland-Berkeley Hills, and interacted with the ambient cooler, more moist Bay/Coastal air to create erratic, dangerous gusts, which helped produce numerous rotational vortices. All of these combined to help spread the fire, tossing embers in all directions. The wind was so strong that it also blew debris across the bay into San Francisco. Ash fell onto the field of Candlestick Park where the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers were playing during that afternoon. The CBS telecast of the game also showed live footage of the fire. As with the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake two years earlier, the blimp shots from the national sports media provided many people with first word of the disaster.
By mid-afternoon, the wind had slowed and shifted to the west, driving the fire to the southeast. At about 9 p.m., the wind abruptly stopped, giving firefighters a chance to contain the fire.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991
2007 Ranch Fire Anniversary
When:
Sunday, 20 October 2019
Where:
Santa Clarita Valley - Los Angeles & Ventura Counties
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Santa Ana Wind-driven Ranch Fire (or Castaic Fire) burned along the Los Angeles-Ventura county line about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Santa Clarita, in the Angeles and Los Padres national forests. It surrounded the Ventura County community of Piru and also threatened the communities of Fillmore, Ventura and Ojai. About 500 residences lie in the fire's path. Evacuations were recommended in all of Piru and portions of Fillmore. Angeles National Forest officials implemented a total forest closure on October 23. The fire consumed 58,401 acres and 10 structures.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2007_California_wildfires
2007 Witch Fire Anniversary
When:
Monday, 21 October 2019
Where:
Peninsular Ranges - San Diego County
Organizer: Kim Patrick Noyes
Details:
The Witch Fire, also known as the Witch Creek Fire and the Witch–Guejito–Poomacha Complex Fire, was the second-largest wildfire of the 2007 California wildfire season, and the largest one of the October 2007 California wildfires. Although the Witch Fire was individually smaller than the Zaca Fire of 2007 (which burned at least 240,207 acres (972 km2)), burning 197,990 acres (801 km2) acres alone, after merging with the Poomacha and McCoy Fires, the Witch–Guejito–Poomacha Complex Fire had a total burn area of 247,800 acres (1,003 km2), surpassing the Zaca Fire to become the largest complex fire of 2007. Initially igniting in Witch Creek Canyon, near Santa Ysabel, the Witch Creek Fire rapidly spread westward, fanned by powerful Santa Ana winds, and consumed large portions of San Diego County. On October 25, the Witch Fire merged with the Poomacha Fire to the north, near Palomar Mountain, before also merging with the smaller McCoy Fire on the next day. The Witch–Poomacha Complex Fire was the last fire of the 2007 October wildfires to be extinguished, with the Poomacha Fire being contained on November 13. During its duration, 80–100 feet-high flames were reported by fire officials in the Witch Fire, and the Witch Fire exhibited the characteristics of a firestorm at its height.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Fire
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