Tag Archives: fire

Doing the after math

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Doc Searls

When I flew out of California on the 14th, this blog was still working. When I went here to post about the Thomas Fire on 15th, it wasn’t. (Somebody later told me Harvard was moving servers around, so maybe that … Continue reading →

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Fire from above

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Doc Searls

Above is a picture of the Station Fire, taken from the plane I was riding from Santa Barbara to Denver on Monday afternoon. I believe the water body at the bottom is the San Gabriel Reservoir. It lies in the … Continue reading →

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Saving Stony Ridge Observatory

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Doc Searls

Above is the latest (as of this morning) MODIS satellite map (on Google Earth) of Station Fire spottings in the Angeles National Forest north of the Los Angeles basin. Near the center I’ve marked the Stony Ridge Observatory. While less … Continue reading →

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Jesusita Fire update

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Doc Searls

Where most of my earlier shots in this series were of fire detection and spread across time, the one above (and in the larger linked shot, on Flickr) is of “fire radiative power”. If you look at the whole set, … Continue reading →

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#JesusitaFire postpile for 9 May

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Doc Searls

(Scroll to the bottom for my latest. Not the latest, just mine.) The shot above looks west from the eastern flank of the Jesusita fire, above Montecito.  The overlays are MODIS (the dots and squares) and GEOMAC (the red line). … Continue reading →

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#JesusitaFire postpile for 8 May

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Doc Searls

The shot above, a screen capture of a Google Earth view, with a .kml overlay from MODIS, shows the first fire detections (that I’ve seen at least), south of Foothill/Cathedral Oaks and west of 154. It also shows the first … Continue reading →

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Santa Barbara Fire update

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Doc Searls

Well, the Tea Fire has been upstaged by the Sylmar Fire. (Both links are to LA Times stories. Do LA Times stories still drift behind a paywall after a week? Not sure. If so, I’ll change them to more permanent … Continue reading →

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What’s Happened vs. What’s Happening

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Doc Searls

The fire in Santa Barbara is officially called the Tea Incident, because it started near (or at) a (or the) tea house, on Mountain Road in Montecito. (Here? Ah, no, here.) There are lots of good places to see what’s … Continue reading →

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