Ojai Fire Watch: Day Wildland Fire

Full ongoing coverage of the Day Wildland Fire over at The Ojai Post...

Comments

[Robert]

Since I couldn't find a map that shows the area of the fire in relation to the towns, I made one by superimposing it over a Google map and lining up the lakes as landmarks:

http://robertpeake.com/uploads/fire.jpg

Also note the Forest service has an RSS feed they seem to be updating immediately with breaking news:

http://www.inciweb.org/feeds/rss/articles/i/475/

Great way to get informed of the latest bulletins without having to go back to the site.

[Mark Gibbs]

For a really good map of wild fires check out geomac.usgs.gov.

[mary collier]

The fire on topa topa ridge what is the statas.

[Tyler]

Hi Mary -
I'll be doing an update at OjaiPost.com soon, but meanwhile...

Moderate growth continued yesterday on the 97,685 acre Day Fire, mostly from relatively short uphill runs in the mountainous terrain. The fire is now 20 percent contained. Fire activity was most vigorous in the northeast corner, particularly in the Snowy Peak area. It also grew by about ¾ of a mile in a westerly direction. A planned burnout on the northeast corner of the fire was postponed until today due to smokey conditions. Fire managers are taking advantage of the few days of slightly cooler and moister conditions. As of this morning the fire is still approximately 7 air miles north of Fillmore, 9 miles north of Santa Paula, 7 miles south of Lockwood Valley and 10 miles northeast of Ojai. The fire has burned around Mutua Flat. No structures have been lost from this large blaze.

Today, fire fighters are using a two-pronged approach to battle this challenging blaze, by building fire line immediately adjacent to the flames, and constructing “contingency” lines away from the main blaze. With the forecasted “weak” Santa Ana event for this weekend, fire fighters are anxious to complete as much line as possible on the current 59 mile fire perimeter. Dozers continue to make progress building lines in the Frazier Peak area, along Nordoff Ridge from Rose Valley toward Sisar Canyon, and hand crews are making excellent progress building fire line on the south flanks.