Tag Archives: wildfire

#ThomasFire live

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Doc Searls

[Update: 7:22am Monday December 11] Two views of ThomasFire developments. First, MODIS fire detections, plotted on Google Earth Pro, current at 7am Pacific time: Second, a screenshot of the NCWG (National Wildfire Coordinating Group) map of the area, 7:18am Pacific … Continue reading →

Posted in Geography, infrastructure, problems, Santa Barbara, Travel | Tagged Thomas Fire, ThomasFire, wildfire | Leave a comment

Bad and dead air

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Doc Searls

That was yesterday. Hard to tell from just looking at it, but that’s a 180° shot, panning from east to west across California’s South Coast, most of which is masked by smoke from the Thomas Fire. We weren’t in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, california, Geography, Health, infrastructure, radio, Santa Barbara, Technology, weather | Tagged wildfire | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in News, Photography, Travel | Tagged Angeles National Forest, fire, los angeles, San Gabriel Mountains, smoke, Station Fire, stationfire, wildfire | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Places, problems, Science, Technology, Travel | Tagged Angeles National Forest, california, fire, los angeles, Mt. Wilson, Station Fire, stationfire, Stony Ridge Observatory, wildfire | 1 Comment

Living on Borrowed Land

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Doc Searls

Why do mature redwood trees have trunks that rise two hundred feet before branches commence, live for centuries and have bark that’s a foot thick? Because they are adapted to fire. Why does the silver-green chaparral that covers California’s hills … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Geology, Ideas, infrastructure, Life, News, Past, Photography, Places, problems, Science, Technology | Tagged "John McPhee", California poppies, California poppy, carbon, coal, diaspora, evolution, Figueroa Mountain, Figureroa loop, geologists, Geology, human, humanity, ophiolites, Plant Sherer, redwood, redwoods, San Gabriel Mountains, San gabriels, Station Fire, stationfire, subduction, The Control of Nature, UCSB, Uncommon Carriers, wildfire, wildfires | 14 Comments

Los Angeles Wildfire Links and Coverage

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Doc Searls

Just arrived at my house in Santa Barbara after a long drive down from Monterey. Most of the way I listened to live coverage of the Station Fire on KNX/1070, both through the car radio (KNX has a huge signal … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Live Web, News, Places, problems, radio | Tagged angeles fire, Angeles National Forest, angelesfire, MODIS, Morris Fire, morrisfire, Mt. Disappointment, Mt. Wilson, Station Fire, stationfire, U.S. Forest Service, wildfire | 13 Comments

#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 →

Posted in Geology, infrastructure, Journalism, Life, News, Photography, Places, problems, Travel | Tagged "Santa Barbara", "Tea Fire", california, fire, firefighters, firefighting, Gap Fire, jesusita, Jesusita Fire, knx, ktms, ktyd, Montecito, noozhawk, Pacific, Painted Cave, Painted Cave Fire, Paradise Valley, Santa Ynez Mountains, South Coast, wildfire | 2 Comments

#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 →

Posted in Places, problems, Travel | Tagged "Santa Barbara", 154, evacuations, fire, indy, jesusita, KCLU, keyt, kfwb, knx, ktyd, Painted Cave, Patterson Avenue, San Marcos Pass, South Coast, The Independent, wildfire | 9 Comments

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 →

Posted in Events, Journalism, News, Places, problems, Travel | Tagged "Las Canoas", "Marty Blum", "Mount Calvary Retreat House and Monastery", "Mount Calvary", "Rattlesnake Canyon", "Santa Barbara", "tea house", "Tea Incident", "Westmont College", fire, martybloom, monastery, Montecito, riviera, teaincident, westmont, wildfire | 22 Comments