Now we're starting to get concerned – the fire has advanced incrementally toward us on the latest MODIS pass (which I was finally able to get), but this doesn't tell the whole story. On the Lyons Peak cameras, we can see a branch of the fire advancing southeast of us, moving almost due north up the Barrett Creek Canyon toward the lake (the L shaped lake in the upper right quadrant of the map). Worse, the fire has spread northwest of its largest extent on the map, and is now threatening the Jamul Highlands part of the town of Jamul (the purple-tinted area). We have heard from two different people that that area is now being evacuated, and from one person we also heard that the Steele Canyon High School, which is an evacuation center, is itself being evacuated. Not good.It remains true that from everything I can see on the Lyons Peak cameras, we are not under immediate threat (we live in that green shaded area). Nonetheless, we're going to start packing some things, just in case we do have to evacuate – so that we're not in a huge hurry when (and if) it happens.
my family evacuated this morning from jamul. Any news from lyons valley road area? We are wondering if their house is still standing. It was besided lucky kids horse farm.
ReplyDelete6:55- We were evacuated this afternoon, as were friends in the area. From our vantage point we could see flames on the hillside just south of Simpsons, and flames in the hillside east of us. The air quality seemed amazingly good. Hopefull they will extinguish the fire before it nears our homees.
ReplyDeleteFrom the cameras on Lyons Peak, it doesn't appear that the fires entered the town of Jamul at all. I can't be 100% sure of this, and smaller fires wouldn't show up at all -- but I think there's good reason to be optimistic at this point...
ReplyDeleteTake care, Tom and Debbie. You guys are in our thoughts! Julie and family in MN
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