I wanted to put together a hub of resources for the Line Fire here on Lemmy. I hope this helps anyone who might find it!

Sort by NEW to see the latest maps/updates!

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Line Fire Updates:

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/5/line-fire/updates
The latest updates from the county and state are funneled through here multiple times a day.

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Line Fire Maps:

The latest maps are being curated in the comments below multiple times a day, but the most up-to-date maps should always be the direct sources listed right here:

NOAA fire Map:
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/land/hms.html#maps
The most reliable and frequently updated map that shows satellite readings of fire spread. This includes hotspots outside the perimeter, and a comprehensive smoke plume map.

Official Cal Fire Map:
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/5/line-fire
Shows live aircraft positions, and is updated a few times a day. Very reliable and helpful to review evacuation warnings/orders

3D Fire Map by Cal Fire
https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/home/webscene/viewer.html?webscene=52683f25df174b0eb124dfb9a6831a98
Not updated more than once or twice a day, but a very cool map to inspect.

CleanAir Fire & Smoke Map
https://fire.airnow.gov/#10.64/34.2049/-116.9408
Updated more often than the Cal Fire map, and shows real-time air quality readings

Historical map of the Big Bear area
https://projects.capradio.org/california-fire-history/#10.76/34.1852/-116.9961/0/1
This is an extremely helpful tool for obtaining visual data of previous wildfire events. The linked map is centered on Big Bear and Arrowhead lake.

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Line Fire Webcams

https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cameras
This network of cameras can be used to easily and intuitively view the fire from multiple angles.

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Line Fire Radio

https://scancalifornia.com/live/goldmine/
This covers radio chatter from firefighters tackling the Line Fire.

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Community Resources

https://socalmountains.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php
A forum for locals that’s been around since 2003

Local Images

https://www.flickr.com/photos/calfire/albums/72177720320272950/with/53989492937

Big Bear City trash pickup was halted on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Water and Sewer services are all continuing without disruption. (and I haven’t personally experienced any power disruptions yet.)

  • @LucidLethargyOPM
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    3 months ago

    A new Cal Fire video update has been posted (link below starts at the Big Bear section)
    https://youtu.be/meio7RFcZvc?feature=shared&t=210

    Formatted transcript:

    And that will bring us all the way to the edges of our Bear Creek drainage. [The] Bear Creek drainage has been one of the areas that we’re really trying to figure out how we’re going to deal with. What we’ve decided is we’re going to send Crews down into that Bear Creek drainage, and they’ll be cutting it out. It’ll be a long process - probably a 5-day event. We’ll have helicopter support for them, and we’ll have some safety mitigations that will have to take place, but due to the weather for the next seven days, [we’re] confident that fir-behavior wise, we can keep this in its footprint with some very slow growth over the next couple of days.

    So we’re going to take advantage of our weather, we’re going to take advantage of the high humidity, and we’re going to take advantage of the lack of wind - and we’re going to get our crews down in there and cut that whole piece out. It’ll be a lengthy process with a lot of people.


    Moving over into the Big Bear drainage, we still have that potential for fire runs up to what we call the plateau, which is right up on the top there where that enormous fuel brake was [created by] the forest service.


    [The] fire will creep up and make slope runs up that drainage up to the plateau, and then slop over the plateau. We’re pushing Dozer line around that entire Plateau all the way back to the Bear Creek drainage, and then North to the dam.


    Once we get to that piece, that should be able to mitigate any of our problems in the Big Bear area. So, the next two or three days will be critical for that operation.**


    As we move down off the plateau, and where it says division Romeo into the Clark’s Grade area, crews are continuing to improve that line coming down Clark’s Grade to the n54 road, and push down into the bottom into the S Oaks Road system, and then move back to the west and tied directly into the fire. Over the next day or so we should have [a] direct line all the way around that entire Eastern flank, all the way back down to the dam, which has been a tremendous progress. [The] next 2-3 days is that critical piece for us to get this entire Eastern section with line around it from the from from Big Bear all the way back down to the dam.

    I am fairly certain that this below image I created from the Cal Fire 3D map is “The Plateau” mentioned above: