Tag: Lockheed Fire Fri, March 19, 2010
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County to Consider Tax Hike for Fire Service
Jan 26, 2010, by Staff News
In 2007, Santa Cruz County residents voted against a proposed tax hike to increase fire services. The next year, the county faced three major wildfires, and in 2009 there was the Lockheed fire, which covered 7,000 acres. Given these recent incidents, county officials are hoping that the public may be more willing to pay the cost of protecting its property.
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Peak Wildfire Season Ends Today
Nov 16, 2009, by Staff News
Peak wildfire season in Northern California ended at 8am today, and Calfire will begin the transition to its winter staffing in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. The state’s burn suspension in the Bay Area will also end at that time. Wildfire season officially began on June 1.
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Lockheed Fire Officially Over
Aug 25, 2009, by Staff NewsIt took 12 days, but firefighters announced that the Lockheed Fire has officially been extinguished.
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A Ticket for a Job Well Done?
Aug 21, 2009, by Danny Wool NewsHundreds of firefighters from across California poured into Santa Cruz this week to help put out the Lockheed Fire. And what did they get for it? If you trust everything you read on the Internet, one fire truck got a parking ticket. The source of the story was a Facebook photo of a fire truck in Santa Cruz with a dreaded pink envelope tucked beneath its windshield wiper.
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Rare Plants Expected to Thrive After Fire
Aug 20, 2009, by Staff Environment
The California Native Plant Society lists two species of manzanita plants as endangered, but that may soon change, thanks to the Lockheed Fire. The rare “Chalks” and ohloneana manzanitas, whose range is limited to the hills above Davenport, need a fire to pass over them before their seeds can begin to sprout, but the last major fire in the area took place in 1948. Now biologists are expecting dormant seed banks to flourish over the next few weeks.
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Firestorm of Trouble for Santa Cruz Salmon
Aug 19, 2009, by Curtis Cartier, Kat Lynch and Traci Hukill News
Domestic and wild mammals fared pretty well during the Lockheed fire. Fish, not so much.
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Evacuation Orders Lifted in Santa Cruz County
Aug 18, 2009, by Staff NewsThe emergency Red Cross shelter at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz closed yesterday, and residents of Swanton, the final refugees from the Lockheed fire, will soon be able to return to their homes. The fire is now 80 percent contained.
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Lockheed Fire Burns Cash Along With Trees
Aug 17, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop News
The sound of fire engines, walkie-talkies and helicopters may be endemic to the Lockheed fire, but so is the sound of an imaginary cash register ringing every time another engine roars into town. Though Cal Fire did not lose personnel in the latest state cuts, $27 million was lopped off its 2009-10 budget, and more than likely each of the local fire agencies that pitched in to battle the flames had its own troubles at home at budget time.
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Santa Cruz Wildfire Has Nation Watching
Aug 17, 2009, by Staff News
The eyes of the nation turned to Santa Cruz County this weekend, as the Lockheed Fire—65 percent contained as of this morning—raged through the brush.
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Lockheed Fire 30 Percent Contained
Aug 15, 2009, by Staff News
As of 8am Saturday morning, the Lockheed fire north of Santa Cruz had spread to 6,800 acres but was 30 percent contained. CalFire ramped up the effort over the last 24 hours, marshalling 1,550 firefighters, 234 fire engines, 17 fire crews and 22 bulldozers to corral the blaze.
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Man Arrested for Vandalizing Church
Aug 14, 2009, by Staff NewsA transient, Ariel Dehaviland, 37, has been arrested in Santa Cruz for desecrating a Mission Street church being used as an evacuation center for people fleeing the Lockheed fire.
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Blaze North of Santa Cruz Uncontained
Aug 14, 2009, by Staff News
Two days after it started, 670 firefighters, 120 engines, and 20 aircraft have as yet been unable to get the Lockheed Fire at Bonny Doon under control. As of Friday morning it had torched 4,100 acres and was only 5 percent contained. About 2,400 locals, including the entire population of Bonny Doon, have been ordered to evacuate. The fire is especially severe because it covers an area of dry brush and timber that has not seen a fire in at least six decades.
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Lockheed Fire Rages in Bonny Doon
Aug 13, 2009, by Curtis Cartier News
The skies over Davenport were thick with acrid brown smoke Thursday morning as a wildfire raged in the Santa Cruz Mountains around Bonny Doon. Dubbed the Lockheed fire, the blaze had torched more than 2,300 acres by midmorning after dry conditions caused what had been a relatively small fire on Wednesday to explode in size overnight. About 600 people living on Swanton Road, Warrella Truck Trail, Last Chance Road and Rancho del Oso were evacuated while more than 300 firefighters battled the flames. A mandatory evactuation order for Bonny Doon went into effect at 11am Thursday. With slide show and video.
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Lockheed Fire Covers Hundreds of Acres
Aug 13, 2009, by Staff NewsBy late last night, about 300 firefighters were battling a blaze that broke out north of Bonny Doon, in the area of Jamison Creek and Empire Grade roads.
