San Diego Fire Resources (Witch Fire & others, Oct 2007)

October 22, 2007 by Jim

“[Witch Fire] is the worst fire this county has ever seen — worse than the Cedar Fire [of 2003],” Sheriff Bill Kolender

Lists of Burned Homes & Buildings

List of damaged homes (via Union-Tribune), also a map showing icons of each damaged home
List of destroyed homes (via CBS 8 San Diego)
List of destroyed, damaged homes (via NBC 7 San Diego)
List of fire damaged homes (via City of San Diego)

Maps

San Diego County fires, evac centers & zones, road closures (Google Maps, KPBS, updated often )
Unofficial Witch Fire perimeters and evacuation zones (Google Maps)
SignOnSanDiego Fire Map (Google Maps, Union-Tribune)
LA Times 10-22-07 Fires (Google Maps)
US Forest Service WMS & KML (Google Earth) layers
US Forest Service ArcIMS Fire Maps

Official Information

San Diego County Emergency Homepage
San Diego Road Closures (San Diego County Public Works)
San Diego Red Cross Fire Updates

Local News, TV, & Radio

Local TV

NBC San Diego Live News Feed (NBC 7)
CBS Wildfire Coverage (CBS 8, entire site now dedicated to fire coverage)

Local Newspapers

Breaking News on wildfires (Union-Tribune)
SignOnSanDiego.com Fire Blog (Union-Tribune)
SignOnSanDiego Online Radio fire coverage (Union-Tribune)
Breaking News on wildfires (North County Times)
Ramona Sentinel
LA Times “San Diego County Fires” Blog (LA Times)

KPBS (TV, Radio)

KPBS Fire New Updates (PBS)
KPBS Online Radio coverage (PBS)

Local Bloggers & Photologs

Emmet Pierce blog: Evacuating Penasquitos (Union-Tribune reporter)
Cat Dirt Sez (Lots of live updates via blog)
Nate Ritter live blogging via Twitter
Firefighter Blog (covering lots of fires across US)

Photographs & Imagery

Flickr images and photographs
San Diego Fires (lots of links to satellite imagery)

Web cameras

Lyon’s Peak Cameras (Live camera at Lyon’s Peak near Jamul)

Miscellaneous

San Diego County School Closures (10/22/07)
San Diego Air Quality Forecast
211 San Diego
Dimamite’s list of Fire/Police scanner sites (listen to SD fire/police scanners via Internet)
Need help? Want to offer help? (CraigsList.com)
Need to let family members know you are safe? (Red Cross’s Safe & Well List)

I’ll try to update this when I find other good links and resources. If you find any good links, just post them as comments below.

Update 1 @ 10/22/07 9:30 AM: Added more links

Update 2 @ 10/22/07 11:20 AM: Added more links

Update 3 @ 10/22/07 12:35 PM: Added school closures, USFS WMS/KML downloads, USFS ArcIMS site, and Air Quality Forecast links

Update 4 @ 10/22/07 1:22 PM: Added 211 San Diego link

Update 5 @ 10/22/07 2:20 PM: Added Cat Dirt Sez blog, Nate Ritter’s twitter feed, Dimamite’s list, and Lyon’s Peak web cam links

Update 6 @ 10/22/07 8:01 PM: Added CraigsList link

Update 7 @ 10/23/07 8:15 AM: Updated SignOnSanDiego’s Fire Blog link; Added North County Times link

Update 8 @ 10/23/07 7:40 PM: Added Red Cross’s Safe & Well List link

Update 9 @ 10/24/07 9:15 AM: Added link to Ramona Sentinel Newspaper

Update 10 @ 10/24/07 9:30 AM: Added UT and NBC7 links to burned homes lists, CBS 8, and SignOnSanDiego Fire Map link

Update 11 @ 10/24/07 5:00 PM: Added new list of links for Resources for the Firestorm 2007 Aftermath

Posted in California News, News and Politics, U.S. News | Tagged Events, Firestorm 2007, Life, News, Personal, San Diego | 25 Comments

25 Responses

on October 22, 2007 at 12:29 pm Anne Wayman

Jim, thanks so much for the maps… I’ve been going nuts trying to find them… this is probably the best site on the net for solid info.
on October 22, 2007 at 12:36 pm San Diego Fires - 2

[...] I finally found a net source that makes sense to me. It’s Jim 2.0’s Blog. Jim seems to be mostly a programmer, although he’s got some interesting philosophy links etc. Whatever it is, he’s done a great job providing links to maps and other information at a post he calls San Diego Fire Resources (Witch Fire & others, Oct 2007). [...]
on October 22, 2007 at 1:00 pm nate

You could feel free to follow my twitter feed if you’d like more granular information as well.
on October 22, 2007 at 1:00 pm nate

Sorry, here’s the link: http://twitter.com/nateritter
on October 22, 2007 at 3:42 pm thismamacooks

Thanks for the info. I’m in Colorado but my mom is in Santee.
on October 22, 2007 at 9:28 pm pinguino

thanks for posting that nbc video feed. i was afraid it went down.
on October 23, 2007 at 4:06 am K T Cat

The maps situation is appalling. I’ve been blogging about this. There is no excuse for it.
on October 23, 2007 at 7:12 am San Diego Fires – 3

[...] to answer specific questions. Hard to tell how well that’s working, but it’s a great idea. Jim’s Blog still has the best selection of info I’ve found and Nate Ritter’s Twitter is a [...]
on October 23, 2007 at 8:08 am Dan

Thanks for the links. They are very helpful.
on October 23, 2007 at 8:31 am J D

Thank you for listing out these resources in one place.
on October 23, 2007 at 9:45 am SAM

The Ramona Sentinel has awesome hourly coverage of the fire in the area http://www.ramonasentinel.com for all of those who are feeling neglected
on October 23, 2007 at 3:00 pm Gino Green Global

Thanks much… I really like these resources. Much helpful for this crazy incident >_<
on October 23, 2007 at 5:19 pm Thunk Different.

This is great information, Google has some info on everything too.
Their trends even rated San Diego, “On Fire.”
on October 23, 2007 at 5:31 pm Mapping California Fires

[...] San Diego Fire Resources: Links to a variety of maps for the San Diego area. [...]
on October 23, 2007 at 5:42 pm Not a real post, but… « Bryan’s Sophia

[...] Witch Fire [...]
on October 23, 2007 at 6:12 pm Sander van Zoest

I have also found the http://map.sdsu.edu/ link to be interesting with all sorts of maps about the current and 2003 Cedar fires.

Wishing everyone the best.
on October 23, 2007 at 11:02 pm pierrickmoritz

I am impressed by the courage of the inhabitants of California. Good courage in all.

A French.
on October 23, 2007 at 11:27 pm Abitu tunne on… « Süda, kuis sa ruttu tõused kuumalt rinnas tuksuma…

[...] Hetkel oleks mul hädasti vaja mõnd võimsat jumalust, kelle poole palvetada, et San Diegos möllav tuli maha rahuneks. Mu seal elav netisõber tuli eile keset ööd üle väga pika aja MSN-i. Meie [...]
on October 24, 2007 at 12:26 am lucarioex7

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on October 24, 2007 at 12:32 am Californian Fires - resource list | Reverse Turkey

[...] San Diego Fire Resources: [...]
on October 24, 2007 at 2:09 am samgupta

hummm
on October 24, 2007 at 7:41 am K T Cat

I’v got a set of very good fire location maps on my blog. These come from SDSU which is doing a Google Earth-based map of the fires. It’s the best I’ve seen yet.
on October 24, 2007 at 2:28 pm attendingtheworld

Excellent Public Service post. Thanks a million.
on October 24, 2007 at 2:45 pm westergaardtuepah

it is staggering how we can become intimately involved in something like this – rather overwhelming in fact

one would hope that it would bring humanity closer, break down walls, barriers, and judgement and help people to understand that we are all ultimately the same
on October 24, 2007 at 4:04 pm Resources for the Firestorm 2007 Aftermath, San Diego

[...] I posted the San Diego Fire Resources article for myself and a few friends. Somehow, the article started to spread and 48 hours later the [...]

I posted a new article for “Resources for the Firestorm 2007 Aftermath“.