Quick Look: 10 Southern California Wildfires Currently totals 22,421 Acres [MAP] #CaFire

Friday, May 16, 2014

Quick Look: 10 Southern California Wildfires Currently totals 22,421 Acres [MAP] #CaFire

Southern California Major Wildfires: Currently totals 18421 acres

Southern California Major Wildfire Map

Tomahawk Fire CA-MCP-1554, Camp Pendleton, San Diego County

6500 acres 23% contained Type 2 IMT (Garwood)
200 single residences,20 non residential commercial residences, 40 other minor structures threatened and one damaged.
200 residences remain evacuated in Olive Hill area, Fallbrook.

Pulgas Fire CA-MCP-1556, Vegetation Fire, San Diego County
8000 Acres, 5% contained, Structure threat to Camp Pendleton areas 25, 32, 33, 41, and 43. These areas have been evacuated.

River Fire CA-OCS-0758, Oceanside, San Diego County
105 acres, 100% contained

Poinsettia Fire CA-MVU-10165, Carlsbad, San Diego County
400 acres, 100% contained.

Miguelito Fire CA-SBC-005573, Santa Barbara County
632 acres, 100% contained.

Freeway Fire CA-MCP-1555, Naval Weapons Station, Fallbrook
56 acres, 100% contained

San Diego Complex. [Incidents below are being managed under the San Diego Complex.]

Bernardo Fire CA-MVU-10055, San Diego County
1548 acres 90% contained
Type 3 I/C CALFIRE (Lawson)

CoCos Fire CA-MVU-10174, Vegetation Fire, San Diego County1,200 acres, 5% Containment
Rapid rate of spread spotting.

Highway Fire CA-MVU-10173, Deer Springs, San Diego County
380 acres, 0% contained

CFN - California Fire News 2013

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How fires get their names

Every year in California thousands of wildfires start throughout the state. In most cases, the dispatch center sending the initial resources to a wildland fire will designate a name for the fire, but the first on scene engine or fire official can also name the incident. Fires are usually named for the area in which they start – a geographical location, local landmark, street, lake, mountain, peak, etc. Quickly naming the fire provides responding fire resources with an additional locater, and allows fire officials to track and prioritize incidents by name. For example during the Southern California Fire Siege of 2003, the largest wildland fire in California history, the Cedar Fire in San Diego County, was named after the Cedar Creek Falls area where it started. The destructive Old Fire, which burned during the same time period in San Bernardino County, was named after the road along which it started - Old Waterman Canyon Road.

CAL FIRE is the largest fire department in California and the second largest fire department in the United States. CDF - CAL FIRE Firefighters answer the call more than 300,000 times a year. CAL FIRE Firefighters make up the fire department for 30 of our 58 counties in California and more than 100 local communities. We serve as the incident command during many of California’s most serious disasters. CAL FIRE Firefighters respond to many various types and forms of calls ranging from structural fires, to auto accidents, to earthquakes, to floods, to the spilling of hazardous materials, to every conceivable disaster; CAL FIRE answer's the calls. CAL FIRE is the largest fire department in California and the second largest fire department in the United States . CAL FIRE firefighters protect 33 million acres of State Responsibility Area (SRA). We have over 4,000 members within CAL FIRE and CAL FIRE is associated with the California Professional Firefighters (CPF) and the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF).

CFN - CALIFORNIA FIRE NEWS - CAL FIRE NEWS

Friday, May 16, 2014