NWS San Diego morning forecast called for strong winds with very little moisture in the clouds in the area. Already getting lighting strikes in Anza Palomar Mtn area.
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getting wetting showers here in WrightwoodâŚhopefully these showers develop over the fire
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Not true, new orders being issued : Calla De Rio East to Garnet Rd/38 ( Mentone). Once you pass the Greenspot pumping plant itâs now the in the city limits of Mentone. There are a ton of homes up in foothills that are on that side of Mentone/Redlands, and itâs not that far ( 1.5 miles) from where it has impacted the 7 Oaks dam.
Fredbala, Smiley Park and Running Springs still have alot of open country before it hits anything, unlike Mentone.
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1, Mentone is not a city, its County Fire but not a City, a 2 minute search will show there is even a portion of Redlands City
2, The City of Highland comes all the way to a half mile South of 38/Bryant.
There were 14 homes in the section North of Mill Creek and South of the dam, was my IA for ten years.
Some were lost during a few fires in there
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Those Old Fire photos look like the Concow Basin before the Camp Fire.
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Yeah, I felt the same. A lot of overgrowth mixed with standing and fallen snags from fires of yester-year. Makes it all so morbidly poetic that Running Springs and Arrowbear could be facing a similar fate to Concow/Paradise right now. Terrifying. And another terrible example of poor forest management post-early-2000s fires. Can only hope for the best now.
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I live in the area, once you pass the Greenspot pumping plant it changes into Mentone , The city lines are at Wabash, Redlands does have a sphere of influence in Mentone but everything is a Mentone address, Highland city limits due run across the top of the foothills and down to Newport Ave but itâs all Mentone addresses and in the town limits. When traveling up the 38 by Bryant those new homes are all in Yucaipa.
They are serviced by county due to lack of incorporation.
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The fire doesnât care about any jurisdiction. Nor do boundaries matter with a fire of this or any size. Can you go back to the fire and less where the city limits are?
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Iâm at Keller Peak lookout and we are getting light to mild precip, thunder, and some distant lighting. Erratic winds and appears to be intense fire behavior in lower drainages. Just a lot of watch out situations right now.
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Radar is showing strikes in front of the fire
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Confirmed that there are strikes, watching it now.
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Visibly exploding behind Harrison Mountain. Last sizeable fire to even tiptop that area was the 2006 Plunge Fire. A couple more drainages to get established and this thing will haul up to Fredalba and Smiley Park. This is a supreme disaster in the making. Thousands of lives are threatened by this not just in Running Springs.
Arrowbear, likely Big Bear-- even Lake Arrowhead could be under threat by this thing.
Why this fire isnât getting immediate top of the hour coverage from nearby Los Angeles news outlets? Iâll never know.
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You will get better coverage here than any local new crew.
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Itâs a weekend
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The Butler 2 Fire threatened Fawnskin in 2007 on a Saturday and there was top of the hour continuing coverage of that thing. But that was back in the day when the news was more reliable.
Anyway, if you can see on Little Mountain Camera 2 and go back 30 minutes, you can see the column directly being affected by outflow winds. Potentially from that microbust. Incredibly dangerous behavior. Expect a much fast climb up towards Rim of the World in the next few hours.
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Keller peak 2, its across 1no9 and moving uphill.
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