[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 East, Northridge West, Northridge South, Granada Hills South, Granada Hills North, Lake 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 LAFD, LAPD, LADWP, HAM Radio Operators, Community 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

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

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

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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[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.

By Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times

October 1, 2011

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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View entire article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bodie-gold-20111001,0,2665167,full.story

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

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

Interactive map: A history of wildfires in California

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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