[pct-l] So. Cal. Fire Status

[scrookham at hotmail.com (Sean Crookham)]

San Bernardino National Forest is now closed to all visitors indefinitely. 
Residents of some communities are being allowed in. Many of the mountain 
communities have been evacuated. I was up on the mountain helping to 
coordinate evacuations last night. This is looks to be the big fire that all 
of us associated with the San Bernardino National Forest have been dreading.

Forest Order No. 03-6 establishing temporary fire restrictions beginning 
October 25, 2003 through the end of the fire season.  In part, the Forest 
Order states that due to extreme fire danger, going into or being upon any 
area of the San Bernardino National Forest is prohibited. Violations are 
punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. Persons exempt are any federal, 
state, or local members of an organized rescue or firefighting force in 
performance of official duty, and persons with a permit specifically 
authorizing the prohibited activity.

If you have specific questions about this Forest Order, please call the 
local US Forest Service office.

For more fire related information see http://www.incidentcontrol.com/

Sean Crookham
aka Tick



>From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>
>To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] So. Cal. Fire Status
>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:15:51 -0800
>
>	The Grand Prix fire, west of Cajon pass, is growing north and
>west.  The Old fire (named after Old Waterman road or canyon, I
>expect) seems to be growing in all directions.  The Los Angeles Times
>has a story in which a Forest Service ranger is quoted as saying that
>they expect the two fires to merge!!!
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-102603fires_wr,1,6754725.story?coll=la-home-headlines
>
>	This is scary stuff.  The Cajon Pass corridor is being
>evacuated (but not Wrightwood, yet).  Lake Arrowhead is being
>evacuated.  It appears that preparations are being made on the
>assumption that nothing will stop these two fires as they march north
>toward Wrightwood and Silverwood Lake, except for recent burns (such
>as last year's Blue Cut fire on the north portion of the Cajon Pass).
>
>	My personal opinion is that if you know any hikers on the PCT,
>or on any forest trails between, say, Mount Wilson and Big Bear City
>(I see no reason why the the fire could not eventually reach Big Bear,
>BTW),
>
>		       GET THEM OFF THE TRAIL.
>
>If you can't contact them directly, contact the Forest Service with
>their presumed whereabouts.
>
>	I dislike being so full of gloom and doom, but the smoke
>filling Southern California's sky is very, very gloom-and-doomy at the
>moment.  The local segments of the PCT may look very different for
>next year's class, if the trail is open at all (the trail could be
>closed for rehabilitation under a worst-case scenario).
>
>					Craig "Computer" Rogers
>
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