Interesting history lesson
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Natural asbestos mines are in the new idra area. Look on Apple Maps or google maps and the area north of Los Gatos creek rd the stuff that’s white isn’t snow my friend. The super funded the area in the late 80s I believe the mine was the new idra mine.
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New Idra is a Mercury superfund site
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The rock up there is Serpentine, the source of asbestos.
I confessed to working at Sunol over on the Hollow Fire thread. I also worked part of '74 at Beaver Dam. The asbestos trunks used to barrel past the station with their loads uncovered and the dust in a long plume behind. We didn’t think anything of it.
Then came Mesothelioma (lung cancer caused by sharp particles deep in the lungs), suits that bankrupted Johns Manville and other asbestos insulation companies. It is really hazardous stuff. As I recall it was about 1977-78 when fire suppression in there was stopped.
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Sorry to hear. And the things we do when young and not knowing that bite us in the A@@ later.
All to aware of it. Ring mountain on Tiburon peninsula just up from my station has a ton of SERP rock and several slide areas that crumple down.
I always check areas from WL fires I’ve been on to see if in area and document it
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Are you aware if the fire has crossed Los Gatos creek going north? I’ve got some friends out there
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Any strike teams from czu currently on the incident?
I don’t think so their is a ST from CUZ and SCU covering BEU
Check out the ftp sever for
Today’s map. That should have your location of the fire
Where can I find that
Are they doing a firing operation in the area of the Joaquin camera? Significant uptick in fire activity.
There is suppose to be a big firing operation today.
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Sure looks like that is what they did, also may be a couple of spots trying to get going.
If you look at today’s map and firing plan, the locations of the columns don’t seem that odd.
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The fire has not crosed
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Large firing op. Using C406 with the PSD
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Does anyone have a map link?
Where can you view the firing plan?
25,000 acres
35% contained
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