Hey George, According to inciweb.com fire map, Siskiyou rail line has been spared thus far.
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"InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident information management system. The system was developed with two primary missions: 1. Provide the public a single source of incident related informa
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Let's hope the wind doesn't change direction! There's an interesting railroad tidbit in the July 11 briefing: Working northeast of Scott Road, crews will use the concrete rail bed to initiate st
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Inciweb user Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That Google Maps page shows the forest closure > order for the Beckwourth Complex. > > The actual fire areas are muc
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That Google Maps page shows the forest closure order for the Beckwourth Complex. The actual fire areas are much smaller. At present, the Dotta Fire, which threatened Red Clover Valley and Squaw Cr
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Amtrak's service alerts have been littered with delays and reroutes (and annulments) on the Zephyr recently, mostly between SLC and Denver. Some have been due to track work by UP. The problem now is a
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Inciweb page for the fire: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4962/ And that is a spectacular picture! Did he sell it to the news places? Similar ones appeared there but not as dramatic, including on
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This morning's operational map from inciweb: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CABDF/2016-08-16-1443-Bluecut-Fire/picts/2016_08_17-08.22.45.133-CDT.pdf
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In case if anyone is interested, here is the link to the latest updates on this fire: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4905/
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Additional information on the sand fire can be found on the InciWeb website. http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4878/
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A little webdigging... Metrolink Service Advisories: http://www.metrolinktrains.com/news/alerts_and_advisories Inciweb fire information: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4878/
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The Marble Valley fire got pretty close to the KFR, I could see the fire from my place. But, I don't think the fire line hit the tracks. http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4551/ South of the inte
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http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
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California's a big place. The big fires (so far) are not near the railroads. See: Inciweb, for fires on federal land: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/ Google California Fires map: https://www.goog
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CalFire's website has some info: (as of 2:35 PM): Boles Fire 200 acres Evacuation orders for the communities of Weed, Carrick and Lake Shastina This is a CalFire operation, so the fede
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The Bald Fire located in and around the Little Valley area of NE Calif. has the BNSF Gateway Sub closed for the foreseeable future. Reportedly the fire has burned intensely throughout the Little Valle
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Snide comments are the norm here. We learn to live with it. Realistically, FRC is at least as much "at risk" for a fire as eastern WA. Probably more - CA got almost no rain last winter, but WA at l
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There's a pretty hefty fire going on up in the region right now: http://inciweb.org/incident/3202/
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