10/19/22 - This morning in Jenner, a Sea Lion got out of the water, climbed onto a states park car, and marine wildlife rescue came and picked it up for evaluation prior to relocation.
Photo by KC Anicca
6 miniature ponies escaped and are trotting down Lakeville at Cannon.
Owner contacted and is coming to retrieve them. Will admonish said ponies and remind them that there is be No horsing around on main thoroughfares.
Overnight fire updates;
We are happy to report there were no major fire over night in Sonoma County!
#RussianFire
burned 2-3 acres, never got an update but it disappeared from the cameras
The
#KennedyFire
burned 2 acres and was quickly wrapped
2 fires in SR were quickly contained
🎉🎉🎉Thank you everyone for 15,000 followers!!!! 🎉🎉🎉We really appreciate all of you and love that you love our work! For those new to us we are all volunteers who do our best to keep you informed on fire and law events in Sonoma County and the immideate surrounding areas.
Internet and cell service are down across large portions of the county. There are also numerous trees and powerlines down. Please only call 911 in an emergency.
Not only do we recognize what a hectic night our law enforcement is having tonight and that helicopter hasn’t had a break, but we applaud our ambulance crews, nurses and ER Techs at the local hospitals for the multiple trauma alerts coming in tonight.
Thank You!!!!
So as not to inundate you we will be using this post as a log for hazardous conditions and will be constantly updating it. Feel free to add photos , and updated first hand info in the comments. Thank You !!
Log :
There’s a viral post where someone heard “all available units to Safeway in Guerneville” ... this was their staging post to grab food and strategize nothing was happening at Safeway it’s important to understand what you’re listening to if you’re going to have a scanner.
Hi all we got a couple donations this morning and I just want to say we really really appreciate them. It definitely helps to put gas in our cars to go get coverage of the fires and then we picked up a couple waters that we were handing out to people
(Update 85, 10:12 pm)
#WalbridgeFire
FORWARD PROGRESS STOPPED on the flare up. Units working to put in some line in preparation for the wind event tonight.
This morning, Cal Fire announced the 2020 fire season is officially over! It's been a tough year but the end of fire season is some much needed good news! Thank you Sonoma County for trusting us to provide you with updates all season! Photo of the
#GlassFire
by
@AirAttackImages
We are pleased to introduce you to our new admin, Admin 4, Taj Pham. Taj has fire experience as a former firefighter for US Forestry Service, and operates socofire_photography on Instagram. We are excited to have him on our team!
ALL HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS HERE:
The storm is kicking up. We will try to post as much as we can as timely as we can but the nature of our jobs + weather will keep us very busy as well. Stay safe everyone.
A few days ago my work led me to a sad situation in the Roseland area of Santa Rosa. A grandma taking care of 6 grandchildren alone with a language barrier preventing her from doing a lot. I decided to kick into gear. I used some of our donations from Patreon...
Thank you Miguel Ortiz (owner of Bay Area Bullies), he and others spotted a small fire yesterday (6/18/21) by River Road, and quickly took action, extinguishing flame while the fire dept was dispatched. Because of this, a potentially larger grass fire was avoided!
#sonomastrong
We want to clarify: we run ONE Facebook, ONE twitter, & ONE IG. We are not associated with ANY OTHER. There's a page with a similar name posting hateful things & doxxing. We're not going to name it and give free advertising but wanted to clear up any confusion. Thank You.
You've probably noticed the thick smoke over Sonoma County this morning. This smoke is from all around but mostly from the August Complex in Mendocino and the Bear Fire near Oroville. Pictured is this morning compared to the same view on August 18th. Photos;
@AirAttackImages
There are currently NO fires in Sonoma County, just a very large amount of drift smoke from a number of large fires to our north. A Red Flag Warning will come into effect later today for parts of the county.
5 Engines and 1 Strike Team Leader from Sonoma County are en route to the
#OakFire
outside of Mariposa. Monte Rio, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County Fire, Rancho Adobe and Sonoma are each sending 1 engine.
We are aware of the smoke showing on the
@nvfirecams
Mohrhardt Ridge 1 camera. This is the 13-4 fire and we are working on gathering more info.
#ThirteenFourFire
NEW INCIDENT 4:58 am
CONFIRMED VEGETATION FIRE
Bell Canyon Reservoir, Deer Park, Napa
#GlassFire
Evacuation Orders are in place for Deer Park Rd to Crystal Springs Rd. Reports of 1 burn paitent. Fire is more then 20 acres now with a north wind driving it at a Dangerous ROS.
A new app for fire info is publicly available today! Watch Duty will provide real-time updates in Sonoma County and beyond! A dedicated team monitors fires around the clock. iOS:
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A good portion of the NWS weather stations in Sonoma County are now either in or close to Red Flag Conditions. Mt. St. Helena 71 mph sustained gusting 84 mph. Sonoma County airport 30 mph gusting 31 mph. Fountaingrove 10 mph gusting 27 mph, 8% RH.
Check it out! A whole new Alert Wildfire Camera to keep and eye on things in the Russian River area. Just today it provided a look at both the
#BohemianFire
and the
#BrooksideFire
in Guerneville, both were quickly handled by firefighters.
@AlertWildfire
NEW INCIDENT 11:43 pm
CONFIRMED VEGETATION FIRE
Mizpah St at Plymouth St, Camp Meeker
#PlymouthFire
Fire units on scene and CHP H-32 overhead of a vegetation fire, unknown size and ROS at this time. Sounds like some units are staging.
UPDATE ON ADMINS :
Admin 1 had power and is safe.
Admin 2 is without power.
Admin 3 is evacuated mandatorily from Graton and doesn’t have WiFi.
Admin 2 and 3 are trying to save battery and so they’re texting me and I’m posting everything to please bear with me. Thank you all
This is Tinsley. She was in a car accident with her humans last night. She escaped the wreckage, got the attention of police, and led them all the way back to the site of the crash. Her humans are being treated and expected to survive. Tinsley is awarded our very rare… 15/10
A Red Flag warning has been issued for the area of the Glass Fire and and the North Bay Mountains from 1pm Thursday thru 6pm Friday. Winds from the North West sustained at 10-20 mph gusting 25-30 mph are possible at higher elevations.
#GlassFire
We were super bummed about
@NorthBayAnimals
having their cameras stolen that they were using to track the mountain lion. Today we dropped off a check to cover the cost of replacement. Thank you to the reader donation that made this possible.
#MeyersFire
Fire is "looking really good", "hopefully by this afternoon or this evening that one will be wrapped up". Dozers putting in line on the North flank through the retardant.
Units from Kenwood Fire and Sonoma Valley Fire are searching for a lightning caused fire possibly in the 8600 block of Bennett Valley Rd.
@AlertWildfire
Osborn Preserve camera captured the strike.
Cal Fire is taking advantage of the cooler weather to do a 600 acre controlled burn near the community of Yorkville. This is causing a large amount of smoke to be visible in the Dry Creek Valley. Smoke and aircraft may be visible through Friday 11/13. Pic via
@AlertWildfire
1/2: From Icela Quezada: I want to send a message of appreciation! My almost 4 year old son is so obsessed with fire trucks! We made him a little custom firetruck costume and took him to our local CAL FIRE station in Santa Rosa. Hoping to just get a few quick pictures…
Sonoma Valley Firefighters light a backfire to burnout around a structure on Wallace Creek Rd in Healdsburg on Thursday August 20th. The backfire was a success and the home and adjacent barn were saved.
#WalbridgeFire
11/14/21 445am
PETALUMA POLICE: BEAR IN THE AREA OF 20 BLOCK OF RAYMOND HEIGHTS. SHELTER IN PLACE. KEEP PETS INDOORS. DO NOT APPROACH. CALL POLICE IF YOU SEE THE BEAR.
(Update 48, 7:51 pm)
#GlassFire
Fire is 36,236 acres, 0% contained, and has destroyed 113 structures. 1,400 personnel are working the incident. The fire on the Sonoma County side is very slowly burning in most places as the winds have died down.
6/1/2020 - A 3rd day of protesting in Santa Rosa. Local law is protecting its citizen’s right to assemble & protest, while keeping themselves safe. We hope that today's protests will be peaceful to allow the opportunity to have their voice heard, in a safe space. updates here:
Heads up Sonoma County! The
#OwensFire
in Mendocino County is pushing a light amount of drift smoke into all of the county. Latest updates put the fire at 30 acres with forward progress stopped. No need for concern in Sonoma County.
Curious how the
#GlassFire
spread day by day? Check out this interactive map we developed that shows the fire perimeter as mapped every night by aircraft. The map will be updated nightly with the newest perimeter.
NEW INCIDENT 12:05 pm
CONFIRMED VEGETATION FIRE
Middle Two Rock Rd at Succetti Rd, Petaluma
#MiddleFire
5 acres, moderate ROS in light flashy fuels. Concern of it jumping middle two rock road but they're trying to hold it.
Good evening Sonoma County. We wanted to take a minute to give a brief overview of the upcoming Fire Weather Watch and Wind Advisory.
So far this year, we’ve been spared from any major wind events, but with October being October, that's not the case anymore. (1/9)
We've been on Twitter for 5 years today! Since starting on Twitter in 2018, over 23,000 of you have joined us and we now have nearly 130,000 supporters across all platforms! Thank you for all your support and we look forward to providing incident updates for 5 more years to come!
(Update 16, 7:27 pm)
#GlassFire
Extreme fire behavior taking place. Units having to fall back from their current assignments due to fire behavior. If you have not evacuated do so NOW
(Update 52, 1:40 am)
#GlassFire
Nothing to report on in the last hour at all which is a good sign. The Alert Wildfire cameras show the fire active but very dormant around Santa Rosa. We'll be back on tomorrow morning or sooner if something happens.
All Current hazardous conditions will be posted in this thread. We will try to update when stuff is clear but its busy tonight so we might not get to everything.
(Update 38, 5:34 pm)
#WalbridgeFire
Units are losing the line they were trying to hold. They're going to attempt to hold Skaggs Springs Rd but "it's a shitty plan"
We are signing off early tonight and will be on here and there but some of us work tomorrow and when we aren’t we will be focused on spending time with our households. This has been an crazy upside down year but we’re almost through to the end.
(Update 25, 9:49 pm)
#GlassFire
#ShadyFire
#BoysenFire
Per Cal Fire dispatch to all units "All resources committed to the fires in the LNU unit, priority is evacuations, civilian and fire fighter safety"
(Update 53, 8:56 am)
#GlassFire
Fire is currently 42,560 acres and 0% contained. 28 homes destroyed in Sonoma County, 52 in Napa. 10,712 structures threatened. Wind will be shifting to out of the West overnight resulting in S and W facing drainages seeing increased activity.
For this portion of the globe (20N-40N latitude and 120W to 140W longitude), that would indicate the possibility of this being the strongest known system for the area. A snapshot of a sorted version of the developing significant extratropical database:
On 11/1 Sonoma County lost a first responder and I lost a best friend. Firefighters and Officers are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. Reach out when it gets hard, especially in this line of work. Unit 318 is 10-10.
the Santa Rosa Police Department has lifted the evacuation orders for all areas within the Santa Rosa city limits. This means that all residents of the City of Santa Rosa may return home at this time.
***Officer safety and public safety BOLO For the North bay***
2012 Scion 2 door Oklahoma Plate KIZ249
Kenneth Razik armed and dangerous, member of Universal Aryan Brotherhood. He has $1,000,000 warrant for kidnapping and assault.
carrying an unknown amount of stolen firearms
(Update 3, 5:49 am)
#GlassFire
Air Attack reporting fire has died down. West side of the fire is backing downhill with isolated torching and short range spotting.
Confirmed Mountain Lion sighting in Petaluma. Animal last seen east of Highway 101 and south of Corona Road. Emergency personnel are in the area, attempting to locate the animal. If you see the mountain lion, do NOT approach the animal and call 911.
SB Hwy 101 and Hwy 12
Santa Rosa
Over turned big rig
Concrete on the highway
Big rig may have jumped the guard rail
The east and west bound 12 connector ramps to southbound 101 are blocked, traffic along 101 South is slowly moving
Unknown ETO
carrying 14k lbs of cheese
(Update 12, 2:58 pm)
#GlassFire
Air Attack calling the fire 1500 acres and 10% contained. Good progress being made with retardant above Bell Canyon Reservoir and by the dozers on the heel. Unable to get down and see what's happening right along Silverado Trail.
The very very faint glow of fire along Chiles Pope Valley Rd in Napa is a flare up within the black of a previous fire. Four engines are on scene and will be able to handle, cancelling the rest of the vegetation fire response.