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thank you for all you do!!!

The first chopper on scene was the SD County Sheriff, not being FIREFIGHTERS! They were the only unit to return to their base. The full wildland response by Cal Fire and USFS was still responding and engaged in the incident since the initial call. Ground access was very difficult and NE winds came up around 10pm, blowing up the wildfire causing ground resources to retreat to safety zones. None of these units went back home, as they stayed in the fight for the next week!

@@flycaptron49 Oh. AI Overview When the first helicopter arrived at the 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego County, the initial response was to drop water on the fire using a Bambi Bucket; however, due to policy, the water drop was cancelled shortly before reaching the fire due to the approaching sunset, a decision that was later heavily criticized.

I was wrong, it was the Forest Service fire cheif's call to cancel the drop because of the Federal rules to prohibit firefighting aircraft from flying later than 30 minutes before sunset at that time , before night vision technologies were in use.

@@flycaptron49 I was wrong. It was a Forest Service fire cheif who made the call to cancel the water drop because of FAA regulations restricting firefighting aircraft from flying later than 30 minutes before sunset. Maybe because back in 2003 the choppers weren't equiped with night vision technology.

Sana Ynez Peak is in Santa Barbara County.

Ok thank you!

I find these kind of first hand accounts very interesting. Btw, you can find a video of the flight operations, including the AA330, at ua-cam.com/video/n0FzudJn6vo/v-deo.html

Yes, the reason is that we moved our servers from DIY to AWS, where apparently directory listings are not something AWS thinks normal mortals need. This is one of the loose ends in the current (i.e., the new) implementation that still needs to get fixed, sooner or later. For the time being you can still go to the (unsupported) old legacy-www.hpwren.ucsd.edu server, though legacy-www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/archive/index.html does not work there either. But you can certainly look at all l the cameras at www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/ and drill down to individual sites via the "details" pointers. That gets you, for example, to he new cameras on the big water tower at the Palomar Observatory at www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/S/SD/mpo.html. There you can scroll down to the "Archive" sections to access non-realtime images and time-lapse videos. This should then be the same before, where cdn.hpwren.ucsd.edu/RT/mpo-w-mobo-m.jpg gets you to the west view, which also shows the dome for the big 200" Hale telescope, cdn.hpwren.ucsd.edu/hpwren-cameras/mpo-w-mobo-c/2024/20240514/Q3.mp4 shows you a time-lapse video example from yesterday morning. We (actually: Greg Hidley) have been working on an HPWREN News article to document all this better, which hopefully should be posted soon. If anyone wants to get added to the email recipient list, you can send a request via the feedback mechanism referred to at the bottom of www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/ That in general is a more reliable way to contact us. Thank you for your interest in the data.

@@Hans-WernerBraun Thanks so much for the quick detailed response, I was looking forward to checking out the aurora borealis that I missed out on through the archive. The auto-generated timelapse’s are definitely my favorite feature. I’m not seeing a link to access the autogenerated timelapse .mp4 files under the details. Would I just have to manually add year, date, quarter in the URL to access those timelapse’s or am I just not seeing the link?

under details check the last section(s) for number pairs like 12-15 (noon to 3PM).

@@Hans-WernerBraun Got it, and if I wanted to access timelapses prior to yesterday would I have to manually enter the date in the URL? (Last question I promise)

Sure, you can do that, if that gives you the result you want.

I took the video on Oct 24, 2023 when Ramona was still evacuated and closed off. Unless I am mistaken, most of the what came later had come and gone by then, at least for the Mt. Woodson and Ramona areas. But yes, it sure was a nightmare. Back then I lived near the bottom of Mt. Woodson.

That is a very good question. Yes, we normally use 1 minute intervals, but we have experimented for a while now to in addition also collecting 10 sec samples on a few of our sites. I am not sure yet what we would need in terms of data servers that process the images for more than the 300+ current imagers for fixed FoV. I could give you a URL for reaching the 10sec data, but there is no user interface. Actually, you can reach the 10 sec data via the "experimental" /IIFI interface, but if you are not careful that may cram 1,000 or more images into your web browser at the same time, but then gives you a Very Fast ability to go single frame back and forth in the image data set. Well, if you want to discuss it more, send us your email address via HPWREN's feedback means....

Sure. You can just credit hpwren.ucsd.edu Glad you like it.

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It is the highter flying firefighter aircraft above a fire from where the individual water/retardant drops are being directed. Also see ua-cam.com/video/4eYH2QND1yc/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/sP94r4nno4M/v-deo.html

Bill: I understand your need for a captivating speaker, I really do. However, I am putting the videos together for documentation purposes and not for entertainment. Nobody makes money off those videos. They are all available for free and should not have commercials. We do not have to create them, and can just let it be. I for one was very pleased that the CDF Fire Captain flying on the Air Attack over the Cedar Fire and directing airdrops was willing to narrate the video as someone who really knew what he was talking about. In my opinion he is not a bad speaker, but I would not have cared if he were, since he had first hand knowledge of what happened. I think he also had quite a bit off class-teaching experience at CDF. Personally, I think it is unfair to denigrate a highly competent fire official, who has put his life on the line across many years for people like you, because you find it quite painful to listen to him. I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way.

@@Hans-WernerBraun I enjoyed the video AND the narration. You're right, it is not for entertainment but rather information. I found it informative. As a Cedar Fire survivor ( Fernbrook on the 26th ) I can't forget the fire, and have a need to learn and talk about it.

probably due to burning over more substantial fuels in certain areas, it allows the fire and resulting smoke plume to explode, as well as normal convective movement is heightened from the heat of the fire, causing a stronger and hotter plume. That would be my guess

@@TN1965 Watch the NOAA satellite data - look specifically at Isla Guadalupe in the Pacific off Mid Baja. I have 3 recordings of electromagnetic waves emanating directly from the island. ( visible through EMF creating bands of clouds ? ) Son and friends neighborhood evacuated during 2018 fires. 4 friends lost everything. Many reports of very unusual phenomena prior to and during fires. So. . .

@@nanallen1 I am sorry to hear that your friends lost everything.

Just south of Otay. It looks to me like most of them were on the other side of the border. I wish I had more details, but I really don't. Sorry.

@@Hans-WernerBraun where is otay

@@garfasaurusrex South San Diego County, see hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/OM.html for approximate lat/long

@@garfasaurusrex Otay Mountain is located approximately 4 miles north of the international border and about 25 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. It has a top elevation of about 4500 feet.