Big Bear Lake, CA

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CWHappyRN

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Well, amazing the fire, video link is sort of accurate.
http://video.knbc.com/player/?id=157013
We live there and are aware that it is in Big Bear Valley of which Fawnskin is a part of. They sue people for lost business. It is so close. They say 12 hour window to evacuate and at the end of the dam my friends say the fire was. That is about 15 minutes from my house, about 10 minutes from the hospital. Well, the West is dry. This part and parcel of living in the mountains out West. I just hope all my stuff does not burn up, skis and all, while I am here. It is all stored there! Do not go to Big Bear, IMHO, my personal opinion. We are amazed how they will bring tourists into this mess. They cannot evacuate in time with the roads clogged, no gas left, etc. Visit in the winter, midweek, after a good dump! :) Carol
 
I've seen the map in L.A. Times. The fire is north and west of the lake. If it advances east Fawnskin and the North Shore will be threatened. It would have to go a long way to get to Big Bear City (east and slightly south of the lake). Most of the homes and businesses (plus Snow Summit and Bear Mt. ski areas) are in the town of Big Bear Lake, which is on the south shore. The fire would have to jump the lake or burn around it and come back to the west to affect those areas.
 
Tony Crocker":30fysg2d said:
I've seen the map in L.A. Times. The fire is north and west of the lake. If it advances east Fawnskin and the North Shore will be threatened. It would have to go a long way to get to Big Bear City (east and slightly south of the lake). Most of the homes and businesses (plus Snow Summit and Bear Mt. ski areas) are in the town of Big Bear Lake, which is on the south shore. The fire would have to jump the lake or burn around it and come back to the west to affect those areas.
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Tony, my coworker said it was at the end of the dam, by the turn in, on the hillside where you go over the bridge around the lake up to Big Bear. It is all Big Bear Valley. After our house caught on fire in the Bel-Air fire, I don't think it can't jump anymore.

I hope they can control it. They already had a patrol shack burn down at Bear from their controlled burns. They bought another one for ski patrol. Denise's daughter had to call them and say, you are burning us down! Carol
 
Tony Crocker":1vykebxs said:
I've seen the map in L.A. Times. The fire is north and west of the lake. If it advances east Fawnskin and the North Shore will be threatened. It would have to go a long way to get to Big Bear City (east and slightly south of the lake). Most of the homes and businesses (plus Snow Summit and Bear Mt. ski areas) are in the town of Big Bear Lake, which is on the south shore. The fire would have to jump the lake or burn around it and come back to the west to affect those areas.
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I talked to the wife of the head of the Sherrif's department at the hospital last night in a call to my coworkers. The fire came within 50' of the houses in Fawnskin, which is in Big Bear Valley, technically, and around the lake, she said, to the other side a ways. It is so distorted for the tourist industry. She said it was soooooooooooo close, better now. That was my point! No fires here in this wet area.

A bit of trivia as well re: WARREN MILLER! The patrols here told me Warren Miller was a ski patrol, from Rochester, NY and a patrol in the close by areas! I may have a CAREER yet! I only feel connected to him in our mutual love of skiing! Carol
 
We're going to have some cold rain from the north by Friday. Hopefully this will put out the current fire, as a similar storm did to the Old Fire east of Lake Arrowhead in October 2003. FYI the Sierra is expecting a few inches of snow from this same system.
 
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