Saturday-Sunday, November 1-2, 2003

The active fires are in the following areas.  All these fires are small and slow moving due to the weather:

• About 1 mile South of Running Springs - Very Small Crawling fire, less then 1 foot high.
• 3 miles North of Lake Arrowhead at a sewer disposal pond
• East of Arrowhead in the Crab Flats area  About 7 miles from Big Bear.  This is the fire that has been called the "Sleeping Giant"  It is on very steep and rugged terrain but is also very small in size due to the weather.

The total structure count for the old fire is 851 and the last reported structure that burned was the property that FIREupdate.com reported that was burned by itself in the Twin Peaks area on Friday October 31.  That means that no homes or structures have burned in the last 2 days in any area of the old fire.  Let me repeat: According to Jerry Snyder of the Join Information Center for the Old fire, no structures have burned in any of these communities since that Single Family Home in Twin Peaks burned.

I will be updating the maps on this site soon.
 

Over 700 animals have been rescued from the mountain communities.  These animals are being housed down at the fairgrounds in Victorville.  Understandably trying to answer questions about specific animals in such a large group is extremely hard.  The best thing to do is to go visit and look for your missing animals.

Thank you to the hard working people of ESRI and the USDA Forest Servie for this image.
 

Why are we not press?  How many of the evacuees have been helped by us so far.  This is not cool!  If anyone out there has any power to help us.  Please let me know ASAP!  The CHP is following Ranger Al's car as he leaves the area.

Sorry I didn't update for a bit, I have been being interviewed by some newspapers and stuff.  I'm sorry.  I'm back on it.
 

Ranger Al is traveling the mountain.  he spent the morning in Crestline, CCP areas.  I will be updating CCP info shortly.  I will post pictures of individual homes soon as well.  Ranger Al is on his way to update Rim Forest and Lake Arrowhead areas.  Hope to have more info to all of you soon.  I wish I could get up there to get him supplies.  His 50 Lb bag of Dog food is almost gone.  He's been feeding them when he can.
 

Residents of Mountain Home Village, between Mentone and Forest Falls can return home.  Silverwood and Hesperia areas evacuations have been lifted.

A lot of Firefighters are suffering from exhaustion. Officials are releasing almost 1000 firefighters from the area.

President Bush is coming to visit the area on Tuesday.  Maybe I should call him and see if he can get Ranger Al a press pass.

Firefighters defended the Rimwood Ranch are of Running Springs succussfully.  Fire is now in between RS and Arrowbear.  Reports say that it may take up to a couple days to reach Arrowbear with this weather.  Hopefully they can stomp it out before then.

Rim High is still the staging area for the battle.

I have updated the Playground area list.  Ranger Al wrote down all the homes he saw in the area that were burned.  Pictures of these sites will be added soon.

Weather in the Playground area right now is - Very Foggy- Visibility 50 feet.
 

There are over 6500 unique people surfing this site just this morning.  Over 15,000 yesterday.  I am trying to keep information updated.  You'd think that with this many people they would consider us press and give Ranger Al a press pass.  Oh well
 

At least 4-7 days before we can go home.

Falling limbs have injured more people.  It is a very dangerous area. 

Mud slides in the narrows area (18 & 138)

All Evacuations remain in place.  Passes are not being issued.  No Exceptions.

Mountain Residents woke up to a layer of snow this morning.

Dang 120 emails.