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Where might those cameras be (region)?

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Shasta/modoc

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Sorry… I should have put that!!

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@Keestrokes So last night we added a “Recently Installed Cameras” table and map to our Camera Status page. It will show you the most recent 15 installed cameras. Hope this helps.

https://alertwildfirestatus.org/

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Great idea, although it takes away from those of us that tracked the newly installed cameras. haha. Thanks for what you do!

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Thank you and your crew. I’m from San Diego and Hans and his his crew installed the first set of cameras I knew how important this would be if we could take it to all of So Cal, but the group has taken this program to over 5 States and the list of other’s will I keep growing. Please extend a greatful thank you to all of those involved in this public safety project.

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@Keestrokes Hans has been a major influence and we would not be where we are at without the outstanding work from HPWREN. I will definitely extend yours and everyone’s appreciation to our team.

@A904G Thanks for helping make others aware as we expand. We built the Status page as an internal tool to help monitor the health of the system and while it’s publicly viewable we don’t expect it to gain a lot of attention except from power users. Keep up the strong work. It takes a village!

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I was in the Camino ECC in your infant stages, many years ago, and attended a couple of meetings as I was trying to get some of our cameras online. It was very relieving to have you take over the camera installation and maintenance job from those of us trying to figure out the basics of cameras. Carry on…

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Indian ridge is proving to be pretty tough,:flushed:
http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-IndianRidge&v=fd40729

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@thebrushslasher Amen Brother…. Still holding out hope.

Amazing!

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FKU had another fire in the Sky Harbor/Table Mountain area. I couldn’t find a camera covering it. Was there was something at Copper Peak.

Owens mountain.

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Thrilled that Indian Ridge stood up to the run on it today. Hope the supporting hardware/cabling isn’t too badly cooked and it continues to perform.

Nice…

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Welcome RRU/BDF Ranger Peak

And Strawberry Peak (Lake Arrowhead)

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7 new webcams operational today.

Zinfandel 1
Moonraker
Oak Ridge 2
Thunder Valley Casino East
Rutherford
Bald Mountain Guinda 2

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I just noticed in the Beta version… when using the tile display feature, I can click on an individual tile and it’ll open that cam in full screen mode. And closing out of full screen returns me to the tile display. This is a feature I had really hoped for. Now when looking at a display page, if something noteworthy is happening on any particular cam, it’s super quick and easy to take a closer look. Brilliant. This Beta version keeps getting better!

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Glad you like it. Still working out the bugs, hence the Beta. A lot of people asked for it and we are trying to deliver on that feedback. All a part of continuous improvement.

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First, site just keeps on getting better. But my question is some sites offer 4 direction views, most notable are HPWREN cameras. Was wondering if the decision to limit each site to one view was because of limiting space on server or something else? Also not every site from HPWREN is being shown. Again space or least viewed? Not complaining, I’ll take what I can get. Deeply appreciate what you guys have done.

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I’ll echo that, I have wondered for years why unstaffed lookout towers don’t have 360° panoramic HD cameras just fixed in place at all times.

You could program some sort of computer routine to know exactly what normal looks like, and then set an alarm whenever something like smoke starts to rise.

Then somebody at dispatch or a central location could hone in on it and decide whether to take action.

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