ABC News reports this morning that, “Officials credited a cool, moist ocean breeze Sunday night for slowing down the fire and putting communities out of immediate danger.” So, for now, a waft of sea breeze has put us out of this fire’s path. Unfortunately, “The fire, which has cost about $15 million to fight, also scorched a condor sanctuary in part of the Sespe Wilderness and fish and game officials closely watched a condor fledgling.”
Meanwhile, I set up a very quick-and-dirty command-line PHP script to check the Forest Service’s RSS feed and page me when the title of the most recent item gets updated. I didn’t have time for fancy XML parsing last night, so I just relied on regular expressions to pull out the title and stored an md5 of the title string for purposes of comparison. Works great so far, and helps me rest assured that I will get the latest updates when they happen.
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Wow, you’re living exciting times around there. Glad for firefighters and moist breezes.
Me too! We’re not the only ones either — a colleague passed on this photo, which I believe is infrared:
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/fireplots/cgb2006260_0700.jpg
Our fire is the bright red area with yellow to the East.
Glad to hear you’ve had some respite.
Everytime I think Ojai, I always remember that The Bionic Woman lived there. Too bad Jamie isn’t around to put out the fire. Sigh.