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Air Quality Today
On 2016-08-24 03:25:20 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-24 03:11:35 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:32:28 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 01:14:34 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:48:05 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: The "Chimney Fire" has grown to 37,101 acres and is burning around the North-West end of Lake Nacimiento to threaten the North Shore communities. The smoke in the area has become oppressive and local visibility has dropped considerably. We now have 3,983 fire presonnel from 107 fire crews fighting out here with 326 fire engines. So far 52 structures have been destroyed. These shots should give some idea of our current air quality due to the smoke in my neighborhood. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/84et3segb068nz3/AABF0u4b449o45tJiRsENQy_a?dl=0 Take all able-bodied people living in LA today who aren't working, put them to work cutting fire-brakes. We have almost 4,000 firefighters working this fire 24/7. Last night: Cqi-mqoUMAApjKy.jpg Some of the work in progress. https://youtu.be/D-fBdcLX8uU ...and our little Apocalypse Now moment in the "Narrows at the Wester end of the lake. https://youtu.be/xMbe-M350oI 4000 Firefighters at $29/hr, plus overtime = $1.5 million a day. Add in air attack ground crew, fixed wing pilots, helicopter pilots, fixed wing ops controllers, helicopter ops controllers, bulldozer and other heavy equipment operators, fuel for, fire engines, water tenders, and chainsaws, accommodation for off duty crews, and catering costs for crews, and the cost to date as of 07:30 hours this morning is $32.3Mil and climbing. Not included is the costs to Red Cross for managing the housing and feeding of about 1,000 evacuees. This morning the cost to date is up to $40.1Mil. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Air Quality Today
On 2016-08-24 14:27:35 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-24 03:25:20 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:11:35 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:32:28 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 01:14:34 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:48:05 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: The "Chimney Fire" has grown to 37,101 acres and is burning around the North-West end of Lake Nacimiento to threaten the North Shore communities. The smoke in the area has become oppressive and local visibility has dropped considerably. We now have 3,983 fire presonnel from 107 fire crews fighting out here with 326 fire engines. So far 52 structures have been destroyed. These shots should give some idea of our current air quality due to the smoke in my neighborhood. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/84et3segb068nz3/AABF0u4b449o45tJiRsENQy_a?dl=0 Take all able-bodied people living in LA today who aren't working, put them to work cutting fire-brakes. We have almost 4,000 firefighters working this fire 24/7. Last night: Cqi-mqoUMAApjKy.jpg Some of the work in progress. https://youtu.be/D-fBdcLX8uU ...and our little Apocalypse Now moment in the "Narrows at the Wester end of the lake. https://youtu.be/xMbe-M350oI 4000 Firefighters at $29/hr, plus overtime = $1.5 million a day. Add in air attack ground crew, fixed wing pilots, helicopter pilots, fixed wing ops controllers, helicopter ops controllers, bulldozer and other heavy equipment operators, fuel for, fire engines, water tenders, and chainsaws, accommodation for off duty crews, and catering costs for crews, and the cost to date as of 07:30 hours this morning is $32.3Mil and climbing. Not included is the costs to Red Cross for managing the housing and feeding of about 1,000 evacuees. This morning the cost to date is up to $40.1Mil. The current fire status as of 17:00 today: 40,798 acres burned with 39% containment, 1,898 structures threatened, 45 residences and 20 other structures destroyed 7 damaged, 4,106 fire personnel from 107 fire crews, with 333 fire engines. Airtankers and helicopters remain 7 and 17 respectively. ....and the smoke and air quality is just as bad as it was yesterday. This should give some Idea of the area involved as of 10:30 this morning and the positions of Hearst Castle and my home. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_245E.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Air Quality Today
On 8/24/2016 9:07 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-08-24 14:27:35 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:25:20 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:11:35 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:32:28 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 01:14:34 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:48:05 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: The "Chimney Fire" has grown to 37,101 acres and is burning around the North-West end of Lake Nacimiento to threaten the North Shore communities. The smoke in the area has become oppressive and local visibility has dropped considerably. We now have 3,983 fire presonnel from 107 fire crews fighting out here with 326 fire engines. So far 52 structures have been destroyed. These shots should give some idea of our current air quality due to the smoke in my neighborhood. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/84et3segb068nz3/AABF0u4b449o45tJiRsENQy_a?dl=0 Take all able-bodied people living in LA today who aren't working, put them to work cutting fire-brakes. We have almost 4,000 firefighters working this fire 24/7. Last night: Cqi-mqoUMAApjKy.jpg Some of the work in progress. https://youtu.be/D-fBdcLX8uU ...and our little Apocalypse Now moment in the "Narrows at the Wester end of the lake. https://youtu.be/xMbe-M350oI 4000 Firefighters at $29/hr, plus overtime = $1.5 million a day. Add in air attack ground crew, fixed wing pilots, helicopter pilots, fixed wing ops controllers, helicopter ops controllers, bulldozer and other heavy equipment operators, fuel for, fire engines, water tenders, and chainsaws, accommodation for off duty crews, and catering costs for crews, and the cost to date as of 07:30 hours this morning is $32.3Mil and climbing. Not included is the costs to Red Cross for managing the housing and feeding of about 1,000 evacuees. This morning the cost to date is up to $40.1Mil. The current fire status as of 17:00 today: 40,798 acres burned with 39% containment, 1,898 structures threatened, 45 residences and 20 other structures destroyed 7 damaged, 4,106 fire personnel from 107 fire crews, with 333 fire engines. Airtankers and helicopters remain 7 and 17 respectively. ...and the smoke and air quality is just as bad as it was yesterday. This should give some Idea of the area involved as of 10:30 this morning and the positions of Hearst Castle and my home. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_245E.jpg Is there more containment? -- PeterN |
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Air Quality Today
On 2016-08-26 15:23:47 +0000, PeterN said:
On 8/24/2016 9:07 PM, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 14:27:35 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:25:20 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:11:35 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:32:28 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 01:14:34 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:48:05 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: The "Chimney Fire" has grown to 37,101 acres and is burning around the North-West end of Lake Nacimiento to threaten the North Shore communities. The smoke in the area has become oppressive and local visibility has dropped considerably. We now have 3,983 fire presonnel from 107 fire crews fighting out here with 326 fire engines. So far 52 structures have been destroyed. These shots should give some idea of our current air quality due to the smoke in my neighborhood. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/84et3segb068nz3/AABF0u4b449o45tJiRsENQy_a?dl=0 Take all able-bodied people living in LA today who aren't working, put them to work cutting fire-brakes. We have almost 4,000 firefighters working this fire 24/7. Last night: Cqi-mqoUMAApjKy.jpg Some of the work in progress. https://youtu.be/D-fBdcLX8uU ...and our little Apocalypse Now moment in the "Narrows at the Wester end of the lake. https://youtu.be/xMbe-M350oI 4000 Firefighters at $29/hr, plus overtime = $1.5 million a day. Add in air attack ground crew, fixed wing pilots, helicopter pilots, fixed wing ops controllers, helicopter ops controllers, bulldozer and other heavy equipment operators, fuel for, fire engines, water tenders, and chainsaws, accommodation for off duty crews, and catering costs for crews, and the cost to date as of 07:30 hours this morning is $32.3Mil and climbing. Not included is the costs to Red Cross for managing the housing and feeding of about 1,000 evacuees. This morning the cost to date is up to $40.1Mil. The current fire status as of 17:00 today: 40,798 acres burned with 39% containment, 1,898 structures threatened, 45 residences and 20 other structures destroyed 7 damaged, 4,106 fire personnel from 107 fire crews, with 333 fire engines. Airtankers and helicopters remain 7 and 17 respectively. ...and the smoke and air quality is just as bad as it was yesterday. This should give some Idea of the area involved as of 10:30 this morning and the positions of Hearst Castle and my home. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_245E.jpg Is there more containment? This morning's 07:00 CalFire status report shows 45,008 acres burned with 47% containment. However, we are now up to 49 residences and 21 other structures, and 8 damaged. In our little enclave the smoke and air quality was a tad better than it had been for the previous three days. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Air Quality Today
On 8/26/2016 11:36 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-08-26 15:23:47 +0000, PeterN said: On 8/24/2016 9:07 PM, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 14:27:35 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:25:20 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2016-08-24 03:11:35 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:32:28 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-08-24 01:14:34 +0000, RichA said: On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:48:05 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: The "Chimney Fire" has grown to 37,101 acres and is burning around the North-West end of Lake Nacimiento to threaten the North Shore communities. The smoke in the area has become oppressive and local visibility has dropped considerably. We now have 3,983 fire presonnel from 107 fire crews fighting out here with 326 fire engines. So far 52 structures have been destroyed. These shots should give some idea of our current air quality due to the smoke in my neighborhood. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/84et3segb068nz3/AABF0u4b449o45tJiRsENQy_a?dl=0 Take all able-bodied people living in LA today who aren't working, put them to work cutting fire-brakes. We have almost 4,000 firefighters working this fire 24/7. Last night: Cqi-mqoUMAApjKy.jpg Some of the work in progress. https://youtu.be/D-fBdcLX8uU ...and our little Apocalypse Now moment in the "Narrows at the Wester end of the lake. https://youtu.be/xMbe-M350oI 4000 Firefighters at $29/hr, plus overtime = $1.5 million a day. Add in air attack ground crew, fixed wing pilots, helicopter pilots, fixed wing ops controllers, helicopter ops controllers, bulldozer and other heavy equipment operators, fuel for, fire engines, water tenders, and chainsaws, accommodation for off duty crews, and catering costs for crews, and the cost to date as of 07:30 hours this morning is $32.3Mil and climbing. Not included is the costs to Red Cross for managing the housing and feeding of about 1,000 evacuees. This morning the cost to date is up to $40.1Mil. The current fire status as of 17:00 today: 40,798 acres burned with 39% containment, 1,898 structures threatened, 45 residences and 20 other structures destroyed 7 damaged, 4,106 fire personnel from 107 fire crews, with 333 fire engines. Airtankers and helicopters remain 7 and 17 respectively. ...and the smoke and air quality is just as bad as it was yesterday. This should give some Idea of the area involved as of 10:30 this morning and the positions of Hearst Castle and my home. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_245E.jpg Is there more containment? This morning's 07:00 CalFire status report shows 45,008 acres burned with 47% containment. However, we are now up to 49 residences and 21 other structures, and 8 damaged. In our little enclave the smoke and air quality was a tad better than it had been for the previous three days. That's a good sign. Hope that trend continues -- PeterN |
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