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Date: October 17, 2017 at 08:53:24
From: marja, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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I could smell the smoke this morning, -it must be the new fires...I hope they can contain this one...
difficult terrain once again...
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Date: October 17, 2017 at 10:13:05
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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Just sent my daughter an email. She lives in Boulder
Creek. Luckily, she lives on the south side of town.
the Fire's on Bear Creek Rd. closer to the summit (from
reports and news) than to town. This is my old stomping
grounds and I'm sad to hear this beautiful area is under
threat from the fire (named the "Bear Fire").
According to the news so far, from a couple hrs ago,
about 130 acres, 4 houses gone, five firefighters
injured (mostly from falling in steep terrain) and 150
homes evacuated.
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Date: October 17, 2017 at 10:57:49
From: marja, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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Redhart, I did recall you've mentioned your daughter lives in that area....I know that area well too...
a friend is a firefighter out there...
it's stunning re these wild fires, every day it seems a new area pops up...luckily the temps are cooler and hopefully the rain really arrives on thurs...
and today of course is the anniversary of the Loma Prieta equake...
for the firefighters out there these steep terrain fires are so tough to fight...
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Date: October 17, 2017 at 14:35:57
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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I got in touch with my daughter, and she's fine (on
the other side of town miles from the current fire on
the north side). She said the winds were calm so
they were hoping to get it under control fairly
quickly with the daylight.
And yes, it IS the anniversary of the Loma Prieta
quake. I was thinking about that earlier. I lived in
Boulder Creek when the quake happened, and was at my
job in Scott's Valley (about 3 mi as crow flies from
epicenter) when the quake hit. There's not an October
17th that passes that I don't stop and remember that
day. It was one of those events that you time mark in
your life (things that happened before the quake,and
things that happened after).
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Date: October 17, 2017 at 21:51:10
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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Even the newscasters were telling where they were that day, today, yeah. I was at Aquatic Park at a job, with everyone almost gone, except a temporary guy who kept me from running out into the streets with my hair on fire. The brick-faced building went up and down hard, twice. The temp kept telling me, it's slowing down it's slowing down, don't go out yet. He knew I was starting to panic.
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Date: October 18, 2017 at 10:18:52
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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update: 271 acres, 10% contained (5 ff injured/4 homes
destroyed).
they are letting the fire burn to a place where
equipment and men can safely get to. Very steep and they
don't want to risk more injuries...just protecting homes
right now.
winds have been calm, conditions favor firefighters.
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Date: October 17, 2017 at 12:29:05
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
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News guys are saying if the rain is too light then the planes can't fly. So, we need BIG RAIN or else the fires will grow during a 'sprinkle'.
Anyone in touch with the thunder beings, have a talk with them, will ya- ;)
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