Posts Tagged ‘Fire’

Fire Season Continues

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/6/2009 @ 9:04:00 PM
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Of course September/October in California are the most feared fire months — at the end of the long, hot dry summer but as today’s fire in Santa Barbara, and … [Keep reading >>]

Fires in Santa Barbara

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/14/2008 @ 6:36:26 PM
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The fires that started yesterday in Montecito, just SE of Santa Barbara are burning without signs of slowing down.

As the governor says: the state now has a year-round fire season. … [Keep reading >>]

California Fire News Improving

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/12/2008 @ 10:11:29 AM
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Buried away in section B of the Chron, after weeks of front page headlines, was the news that the three big fires in California have much quieted.

The Butte … [Keep reading >>]

Fire Danger Shifts North East

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/10/2008 @ 3:36:15 PM
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Last week the big fires were in Goleta (near Santa Barbara) and Big Sur. While neither is under full control the dangers have subsided. Meanwhile a fire near … [Keep reading >>]

California Fire News

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/7/2008 @ 10:37:06 AM
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The fires in Big Sur and Goleta are still burning, though Goleta looks to be more under control.

Here’s a good place to get updates on the Goleta fire.

Here are a … [Keep reading >>]

Goleta Fire Doubles in Size

Filed under: California | Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/4/2008 @ 11:19:01 AM
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From a contributor to the RG Blog in Santa Barbara:

Friday: Today things look much worse

The fire has grown to over 6000 acres and now threatens to cross 154 to … [Keep reading >>]

Big Sur: A Smoking Ruins

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/3/2008 @ 1:59:49 PM
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More photos of Big Sur. [link is fixed wbk] Everybody is on the way out.

The blaze had swept within a half mile of at least one major resort — … [Keep reading >>]

Big Sur: Danger Increases

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/2/2008 @ 8:24:48 PM
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Oh shit. I had hoped the situation in Big Sur had improved. It’s been foggy and cool further north so we misread the reality down there.

Authorities ordered … [Keep reading >>]

Henry Miller Library in Big Sur Saved

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/30/2008 @ 4:41:03 PM
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The Henry Miller Library in the town of Big Sur is one of my touch stones whenever I go down that way. I always buy a book, sit on … [Keep reading >>]

California Fires

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/29/2008 @ 8:11:33 AM
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A NASA satellite photo on Thursday June 26, 2008 shows thick smoke hanging over California’s Sacramento Valley.

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Big Sur in Danger

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/28/2008 @ 8:06:56 AM
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BIG SUR, Calif. — Firefighters bulked up their defenses Friday against a wildfire that threatened parts of this storied tourist town and prepared for more lightning strikes that could … [Keep reading >>]

CA Fires

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/25/2008 @ 9:55:32 PM
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At least 33 fires burning over a total of 190,000 acres are active. … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Tom Paine

---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795


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