Discussion for all things Bay Area.
Reminder, if you live in the Oakland Berkeley Hills, Nixle AC Alerts are your friends. A shocking amount of people in the area still don’t have these enabled.
This is the first line of communication from the Fire dept about fires, evacuation zones, red flag warnings, road closures, etc.
Fire's still active but forward progress has been stopped. Some houses were burned, no injuries reported. This fire was potentially very dangerous. Thank you Cal Fire, Oakland FD, and everyone who pitched in!
Can we make Eucalyptus trees straight up illegal in Oakland? They caused all of the spread for the fire.
Forward progress stopped at 4pm, all air support was released before sunset, but evacuation orders have still not been lifted and the satellite is showing lots of heat as well. Thanks to massive effort only 2 homes were damaged, one of which is the presumed source of the fire. Really amazing work by NorCal firefighters from like a dozen different jurisdictions!
Edit: this is a good time to recommend the Watch Duty app: it notified me before Nixle and has a really easily usable map. This incident can be tracked at: https://share.watchduty.org/i/36560