Santa Barbara County/Prescribed Burn/June 19-21 (Los Olivos)
"The Santa Barbara County Fire Department plans to conduct a prescribed burn for traning purposes at the Chamberlin Ranch, near Los Olivos, between June 19-21, 2024, depending on conditions. Prescribed fires typically burn less intensely than wildfires. Prescribed burns help prevent the spread of wildfres and can reduce impacts to watersheds that can result n soil loss and sedimentation. This burn s a Prescribed Fire to achieve training of new Santa Barbara County Fire personnel. Approximately 100 acres of sage scrub and Oak woodland will be burned. "... #SantaBarbaraCounty#SantaBarbara#wildfires#PrescribedBurn#LosOlivos
USFS: Fire Danger Increases to ‘MODERATE’ at the Angeles National Forest
Effective immediately, fire danger levels have increased to MODERATE at the Angeles National Forest, which includes the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Visitors to the Angeles National Forest, including recreational cabin owners and concessioners, are advised of the following updates: https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/angeles/alerts-notices/?aid=87870
Brush clearing crews are very late this year, probably slowed down by heavy growth. Started brush clearing the space behind my downhill next door neighbor's house. #wildfires#wildfireseason#disasterpreparedness
"[2023] is the first year where this estimate has reached the 1.3C threshold. Our report also shows that human-caused warming has been increasing at a rate of 0.26C per decade.
This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas #emissions being close to an all-time high and a reduction in the cooling impacts of aerosols as society tackles deadly #AirPollution."
Yes, air pollution from shipping was reduced a lot. But Canada's wildfires contributed more air pollution than that, dimming the sun.
"Last year’s effective radiative forcing (ERF) is lower than 2022’s (2.91 W/m2), mainly because of the increase in #aerosols from #wildfires in 2023, which had a cooling effect. In 2023, the increased aerosols from wildfires more than compensated for the ongoing fall in sulphur emissions from shipping and other sources."
Open space brush clearing crew is late this year. I'm tempted to start working down behind my neighbor's house. (I cleared the brush in the field behind me that they usually do... clearance date is June 1st!) #wildfires#brushclearance
SCE: Test Alerts Coming ⚠️ Dear Neighbors, from June 4-7, we are testing our Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) notification system to confirm recent improvements.
Since we are testing all phases of PSPS notifications, we’ll need to send multiple test emails to a limited number of customers in high fire risk areas.
NOTE: No power will be shut off in connection with these tests.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
These tests are important for us to be able to improve customer communications during PSPS events.
"Metro Fire and Sacramento County Prepares for Wildfire Season and the California Capitol Airshow Mather, CA — The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, Sacramento County Regional Parks Department, Center for Natural Lands Management and the Sacramento County Department of Airports Fire Department will conduct a hazard mitigation burn and multiple prescribed fire burns with and in preparation for the California Capital Airshow, between June 2 and June 20. "
Riverside County: Prescribed Burn Scheduled at Lake Mathews.
Monday, June 3rd, through Friday, June 14th, 2024... CAL FIRE / Riverside County Fire Department, in cooperation with Riverside
County Habitat Conservation Agency, and Metropolitan Water District, will be conducting a a vegetation management prescribed burn at Lake Mathews. The prescribed burn at Lake Mathews accomplishes the goal of rehabilitating the burrowing owl and Stephens’ Kangaroo Rat (SKR) habitat through eradication of invasive, non-native grasses and weed species. This allows mammal species to find food and make homes.
Although wildfires are not great, I am somewhat excited my software to map these is working out and drawing pretty pictures and auto-tagging fire names. #software#wildfires#gishttps://m.ai6yr.org/
Los Padres National Forest: The Hill Fire remains 1,383 acres with its forward progress stopped. As of this morning it is 80% contained. 200 firefighters remain assigned to improve containment lines and mop up.
All evacuation warnings have been lifted. #HillFire#wildfires#LosPadresNF
Got some more notices from Watch Duty today about a wildfire in my county but nowhere near me — a fire that was quickly extinguished. I smiled when I saw the familiar-to-me reporter name: Michael Silvester, who is in New Zealand. (He was CA Fire Scanner on Twitter.)
If you're in the Western US and at all concerned about wildfires, I highly recommend the Watch Duty app.