Witch Creek Fire Map

The south edge of that part of the witch creek fire now looks to be burning westward through west bernardo drive south of lake hodges.

Witch creek fire map. Click on the image for a larger view. Witch creek fire map october 24 updated throughout the day update. Cal fire san diego unit witch creek is located in ramona ca. You can find the harris fire map here.

By four o clock the next morning the witch creek fire had made its way to the san diego city limits. For an excellent example of a mashup app that is tracking information give this a look. The guejito fire started in the san pasqual valley at two o clock on the morning of october 22. About 12 hours later another fire guejito began in the san pasqual valley.

21 2007 the witch creek fire was sparked near santa ysabel. More than 197 990 acres of san diego county burned in the fires 9 250. The witch creek harris. This evacuation came almost four years to the day after the cedar fire of 2003.

The fire started in witch creek canyon near santa ysabel and quickly spread to san diego country estates ramona rancho bernardo poway and escondido locals in the. This was a huge fire. The shaded parts are evacuation areas. Early on the nist wui team initiated a case study within the witch fire perimeter.

Just after noon on october 21 2007 arcing power lines whipped by santa ana winds started a small fire east of ramona in the witch creek area. It wasn t long before the two fires merged. The nist wui team was invited by the california department of forestry and fire prevention cal fire to collect post incident data from the california october 2007 fires. 2007 witch creek guejito fires.

The witch creek fire broke out shortly after noon on sunday october 21 2007 near ramona. Visit this post to see the source. This has been named the witch creek fire for the place where it seems to have started on state route 78 east of escondido. 5 15pm this is from the sdsu site i linked to below.

In the days that followed several other fires would ignite including the harris and guejito fires. Backed by strong winds the two fires united and swept into rancho. The fire aided by strong santa ana winds and plenty of extremely dry fuel spread quickly and reached the rancho santa fe fire protection district boundaries at approximately 1 30 a m. View a fire station photo logo contact info map volunteer info fire equipment and firefighters assigned to this location.

12 35 pm at the witch creek area east of ramona in san diego county. On october 22 and the entire population of the district was evacuated at 10 30 that morning. The case study is. For those of you who may have heard there is a massive fire burning in north san diego county.

Rancho santa fe firefighters with the help of strike teams from northern california as well as other local agencies spent. These arcing lines ignited the witch creek fire. The witch creek fire also known as the witch fire and the witch creek guejito poomacha complex fire was the second largest wildfire of the 2007 california wildfire season and the largest one of the october 2007 california wildfires although the witch creek fire was individually smaller than the zaca fire of 2007 which burned at least 240 207 acres 972 km 2 burning 197 990 acres 801 km 2 acres alone after merging with the poomacha and mccoy fires the witch guejito poomacha. Hundreds of thousands of residents were informed of evacuations through the reverse 911 system.