| Morgan Hill Weather News: Friday 9/28/2007 3:00pm What a nasty looking gray day today! Amazed it didn't rain... Thursday 9/27/2007 4:10pm Here are a few views from the week so far... Friday 9/21/2007 3:15pm Weather and news updates to this site have been offline for a couple of days due to a system failure. We are now back online but may experience intermittent outages while new hardware is deployed. Meanwhile, here are some views of this morning's sunrise over Morgan Hill: Thursday 9/20/2007 1:00pm Shots from the fire just started between Fisher, 101 and Tennant. CDF Morgan Hill are responding with ground crews and a bucketed helicopter. Appears to be a derelict complex of greenhouses with the fire in the north east corner, possibly started by downed power lines. Wednesday 9/19/2007 A couple of shots of this evening's cloud-covered sunset... Monday 9/17/2007 7:00pm A couple of pink sky sunset pics from yesterday evening : Friday 9/14/2007 A few puffy white clouds dressed the skyline for us this morning : Tuesday 9/11/2007 11:15am The Lick fire is now 100% contained but CAL FIRE will still be working to dampen down any remaining hot spots or burning embers. Sunday 9/9/2007 9:30am Here are a couple of videos from the fire fighting efforts: Sunday 9/9/2007 8:00am Latest update on the Lick fire in Henry Coe Park: - 90% contained (full containment expected today) - 47,436 acres burned ( 74 square miles !) - 1,787 personnel (1,480 CAL FIRE) - 9 injuries - 3 residences and 2 outbuildings destroyed - 51 fire crews - 176 engines - 4 airtankers - 10 helicopters - 28 dozers - 33 water tankers - Cost to date $6.4M Amazing statistics... both the highs and the lows! We owe a big THANK YOU to CAL FIRE and all their associated teams who have worked relentlessly hard all week to get this monster under control and to keep it away from our homes. We've had over 90% humidity (fog) for the last 6 hours and it's still here. Hopefully another positive contributor to cooling this fire off. Saturday 9/8/2007 10:30am Official CDF maps of the Henry Coe Park fire zone can be found here. Photographs of the fire by CAL FIRE communications photographer Wes Schultz can be found here. Example below: Saturday 9/8/2007 8:30am Latest update on the Lick fire in Henry Coe Park: - 45% contained - 39,585 acres burned - 1,911 personnel (1,517 CAL FIRE) - Full containment expected tomorrow (according to CDF) Overnight fog appears to have spread inland to cover some or all of the park. This may well have cooled down the fire but will also hamper fire fighting operations, especially from the air. See our web cam view from 8:30am, looking towards Henry Coe... that's fog, not smoke !! Thursday 9/6/2007 7:00pm Latest update on the fire: - 35% contained - 27,000 acres burned - 1,851 fire personnel - Estimated time to 100% containment: +10 days Thursday 9/6/2007 1:00pm Fixed wing air attack operations are still suspended due to poor visibility from the smoke. Limited helicopter activity is continuing below the smoke cover. Wind speeds are picking up. We currently have an average of 5mph from the south, gusting to 10mph. Hopefully this will start to clear out the smoke. Thursday 9/6/2007 8:00am Fire has now burned 18,900 acres. Smoke is still blanketing the south bay area. Today's weather forecast predicts another pretty hot day with highs in the nineties. Good news -- winds should shift back to an onshore or sea breeze pattern this afternoon which would blow the smoke east and away from us. Here's a great time-lapse view of the fire from Monday evening... Wednesday 9/5/2007 7:00pm Latest update on the fire: - 25% contained - 14,000 acres burned - Fire burning in grass, heavy brush & oak woodlands - 1 outbuilding destroyed, 25 residential units & 10 outbuildings threatened - 1,700 personnel - DC-10 airtanker was deployed - 4 firefighters injured - Fire originated from a debris barrel A very smoky sky sunset this evening... Wednesday 9/5/2007 9:00am Latest update on the fire in Henry Coe Park:
More news on the fire from KTVU2, KRON4 and CBS5 . Tuesday 9/4/2007 7:15am The wildfire in the north eastern reaches of Henry Coe Park (the "Lick" fire in CDF terminology) has grown to over 5,000 acres overnight according to local news sources. It could go to 30,000 acres. Over 1,200 fire fighting resources are now allocated to fight the blaze and CDF are expecting a significant challenge to contain this one. Rugged terrain with difficult access typify the park, the largest in Northern California. Four CDF air tankers are expected to be on duty during the day with the possibility of another deployment of the interesting and controversial DC-10. Video coverage from CB5 channel 5 here and KRON4 here. Lick Observatory has a great time lapse video of the fire developing yesterday. Click here for the Lick Observatory still image library Fortunately we have a break in the heat today due to a weather system crossing the Pacific North West. Humidity will also be higher after a few days where we dipped dangerously below 20%. Winds were pretty high all night which has no doubt contributed to the spread of the wildfire. Early this morning, fast moving clouds replaced the plume of smoke we saw over the park yesterday: Monday 9/3/2007 11:45pm Wildfire continues to burn in Henry Coe Park and is now a major incident. The size of the fire may well have doubled to between 2,500 to 3,000 acres. Monday 9/3/2007 6:30pm DC-10 tanker aircraft just completed it's runs across the Henry Coe fire. See pictures below as it pulls out of the smoke for a right turn before making a second run. Monday 9/3/2007 4:30pm There is an active fire in the Henry Coe Park area to the east of the city and beyond Anderson Lake reservoir. CDF air attack are currently fighting the blaze and have indicated that their DC-10 tanker aircraft will be deployed so keep your eye on the skies for a *big* plane. Ground attack strike teams are also in play. Our webcam has been turned around to face the smoke plume. Update 5:45pm Dramatic photos of the fire from down in the valley close to Highway 101, courtesy of local photographer Mark Bristol : |
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Raw video from NBC11.com :
DC-10 tanker dropping retardant
on the Lick fire.
DC-10 tanker dropping retardant
on the Lick fire.
