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!
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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.)
Good man!
Oh hey, someone is looking at all this - Cheers! Let me know if there’s anything you can think of to improve what I’ve got going on here. I’m stitching these maps together in photoshop, so I can overlay just about anything if it’s helpful.
The current overlay is super interesting… the lower portion of the fire is almost exactly following the 1970’s fire line. That must be a good place to stop it!
All good, I just followed you here from your Reddit comment, good to see another bbv local on Lemmy! I would include https://socal mountains.com, they’re a great resource for community discussion, especially among the older crowd. There is a very good chance that we’re the only two people up here that have heard of Lemmy/the fediverse lol.
And yeah from what I’ve been hearing, they’re trying to let it eat up as much of that brush and vegetation as possible up to the south ridge, especially because it’s been decades since much of that down there has burned. I went down to SV today to grab some of my equipment/tools, and it was a wicked sight to see. Off the East ridge above the bowls, you can see the fire running up that ridge towards lookout point above Bluff. They had also managed to run a dozer line about 5 blades deep on the hill just south of the top of slide peak that essentially stopped the fire in its tracks, aside from a few small spot fires that the area maintenance guys were able to douse out pretty quickly. Artic circle isn’t much more than a smoke bowl at this point, but I was amazed at how much less smokey it is down there compared to up here.
Added it to the list! I’m new in town, so I’ve definitely never heard of that website. It’s great to see it! I came here because I wasn’t sure where to go, and figured I’d just draw in people from Reddit.
Interesting - I suppose that makes a lot of sense why they’d let it get to the ridge, then! I was assuming they simply couldn’t do a thing about it until that point due to the terrain. I see some hot spots jumping in a bit as of the last update, it’ll be interesting to see where they draw a line.
All of this information is more than I’ve heard, so it’s really fascinating to hear it! I appreciate you sharing here. And man, the smoke is actually becoming a problem where I live. I have three top notch HEPA air filters that are currently failing to keep the PM2.5 count below 90 on a totally sealed home. I may need to evacuate if doesn’t improve. Typically by the late evening/early morning it gets better. I saw stars last night in the AM, and blue sky this morning… so here’s to hoping this trend comes back around!
No worries. The update video this evening was very informative and optimistic. The terrain is more or less inaccessible due to the slope, but they are working out dozer lines on the east where they can. I feel you on the smoke, this afternoon was some of the worse I’ve seen yet. It’s pretty manageable where we are in UMR, but out in Baldwin today was downright nasty.
Here’s a link to the video (sorry for the facebook link, that’s really the only outlet they’re working with):
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https://www.facebook.com/calfirebdu/videos/1043270130626100&width=1920000&height=1080000&showAlso if you haven’t yet, make sure you snag the Watch Duty app. Huge help.
Another quick update: This map is kind of a Frankenstein’s Monster combination of four different maps…
The new IR map that’s been added was actually skewed (not the exact dimensions of the others), so it is not precise.- The purple overlay gives us a historic perspective from the 1970’s fire
- The red overlay shows a more detailed fire perimeter from the detailed IR Cal Fire Map
- The base map is the primary Cal Fire map for the Line Fire
- The hot spots are from the NOAA satellite map
- The BRIGHT BLUE lines are a rough outline of “dozer lines”
- The TRANSPARENT WHITE lines are planned “dozer lines”
I created this map to help put this fire into perspective. The most similar fire I’ve found from the archives was the Pan Hot Springs Fire in 1970, which was also in September, and burned a very similar shape into the mountain. This is represented in purple on this map. This map was last updated an hour or so ago.
Judging by the map data alone (see below 3:11PM snapshot), it seems like our amazing firefighters are doing a great job suppressing the spread of this fire towards Big Bear.
I’ve been additionally monitoring the wind in the area via the “MyRadar” app. It was stronger when I checked this morning, and now it’s thankfully showing much more calm conditions. As with any other update from me, I have no idea what the ACTUAL conditions are - I am using data provided by a number of sources that may or may not be accurate. So, take these updates with a grain of salt.
Tomorrow is slated to be a bit cooler than today over the fire location, and the winds are supposed to be a bit calmer on the front facing Big Bear. By Friday, we have a small chance of rain, however the temperatures may be a little bit hotter. By Saturday and Sunday, that chance of rain rises with Monday being a pretty good chance of at least a scattered shower. Fingers crossed this helps out the fire suppression efforts!
Edit: MASSIVE drop in temperature by Monday, wow! From 78 degrees on Saturday to 60 degrees on Monday. This seems like great news!
Just a heads up to those of us in a an evacuation warning zone that have not yet evacuated:
Trash collection through BBCDSD for Big Bear City has been postponed for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. More information here on the home page of their website: https://www.bbccsd.org/
I do not know the status of Big Bear Lake’s trash pickup service, as I have not seen any announcements from them.
Just a quick update as of 7:20 PM PST (one with the 1970’s fire map overlay, one without)
Here’s another briefing map. These tend to be updated before the main maps, such as the one on the Cal Fire website. I really appreciate seeing the dozer lines and planned dozer lines as well.
It looks like they either over-estimated the spread to the east yesterday, or perhaps fought it back to the dozer line. The spread into the 38 to the south seemed like a significant update over the last day, however.
Big Bear residents do have two routes off the mountain right now (either up to the desert in the north, or left to west past Lake Arrowhead), but the 38 is definitely closed for obvious reasons, and the 330 is still closed as well due to the damage the fire caused early on.
Just a quick update… please use a mask if you’re outside today. The PM2.5 readings are the highest I’ve seen since the start of this fire. I’m seeing 827 PM2.5 right outside my home right now. This is the highest reading I’ve ever recorded on my air quality sensors. It’s so bad that with all my doors and windows shut, I’m still getting a reading 63 inside with three air filters running. 63 is considered unhealthy, so 827 is likely quite hazardous.
Not the best news today first thing with this map, but hopefully the firefighters are able to tackle those hot spots near Bluff Lake. Update as of 10:45PM PDT (but those hot spots crawling north were from at least an hour earlier).
Here is an additional, very detailed fire map from this morning (published 9:13 PM PDT) that provides a wealth of information about both current conditions within the perimeter, and also preventative measures and planning.
New fire map for this morning as of 10:16 PM PDT.
This features one with the historic fire data in purple from 1970 (similar fire size and location), and one without.
Both maps combine the Cal Fire map with the Satellite hotspot map from NOAA.A new Cal Fire video update has been posted (link below starts at the Big Bear section)
https://youtu.be/meio7RFcZvc?feature=shared&t=210Formatted 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:
So far, the reports on Big Bear from the Cal Fire officials have been very positive. As such, I wanted to let people know what seemed open in town after I drove to the post office and back. This is as of noon, so they may or may not remain open depending on the air conditions, and fire status.
The idea behind posting this is that these businesses may need some cash flow after this rough week, so I wanted to get the word out.
Nottinghams
Bear Noodle Bar
North Pole Candy Co.
Saucy Mama’s
Oakside
Dynasty
Gaby’s Latin Flavors Get The Burger
Moonridge Coffee CompanyMost fast food establishments appeared to be open
(but maybe consider supporting local establishments!)Please let me know if I can expand this list, it is absolutely not a complete list and I may have missed things along the way! I did not drive through Big Bear City, so I can’t give a report on that.
A new Cal Fire video has been posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhL53EUrQUg
