Preparing now for wildfire may save your home Wildland fire managers have done a lot of work to create buffers around local communities with prescribed burns. Protecting individual homes through the creation of defensible space is up to us.
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Wildfire is a grim fact of life in Sisters Country. Virtually every summer for the past two decades, we have seen our lives disrupted by encroaching conflagrations and dense smoke.
We cannot control the lightning storms that so often spark these blazes, nor drought conditions and the winds that drive them but we can control how we prepare for and respond to them.
7 fires now burning in Santa Cruz, San Mateo counties [SFGate, San Francisco]
Jan. 20 LATEST Jan. 20, 10:45 a.m. Cal Fire said it hopes to have seven small wildfires burning in northern Santa Cruz and southern San Mateo counties contained by the end of the day Wednesday amid favorable weather conditions.
“That’s contained, not controlled,” Cal Fire spokesperson Cecile Juliette said. “We hope to have all of them controlled by this weekend. Contained is when they’re able to get a fire line around the entire fire, so they can keep it within a certain area. Controlled is when they have the line around the fire and all the hot spots within the perimeter are out.”
7 fires now burning in Santa Cruz, San Mateo counties
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A wildfire burns in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Jan 19, 2021. According to CZU Calfire, one fire is off Freedom Boulevard in Watsonville and one is in the Boulder Creek area off of Highway 9.PG&E Webcam
LATEST Jan. 20, 10:45 a.m. Cal Fire said it hopes to have seven small wildfires burning in northern Santa Cruz and southern San Mateo counties contained by the end of the day Wednesday amid favorable weather conditions. That s contained, not controlled, Cal Fire spokesperson Cecile Juliette said. We hope to have all of them controlled by this weekend. Contained is when they re able to get a fire line around the entire fire, so they can keep it within a certain area. Controlled is when they have the line around the fire and all the hot spots within the perimeter are out.
Wildfires burning in Santa Cruz, San Mateo counties continue to grow
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The Nunes Fire has closed White Road at Freedom and Larkin Valley on Jan. 19, 2021.CHP Santa Cruz
LATEST Jan. 19, 7:20 p.m. The Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit reported a new wildfire Tuesday evening at Little Basin Road and Upper Bloom Grade Road, four miles northwest of Boulder Creek. The Bloom Fire was five acres and zero percent contained as of 7:20 p.m.
Here s what we know as of 7 p.m. Tuesday about other fires in Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties.
The China Grade Fire, burning on China Grade Road and Foxglove Lane four miles northwest of Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County, was 20 acres and 100% contained with no evacuations. Cal Fire said they were mopping up, a term used to describe extinguishing residual fire to make sure it doesn t continue to spread outside of an established containment area