Crestline Soaring Society

The CSS webcam had a good view of the 10/13/08 fires along I-215 in San Bernardino. The link loop starts at 9 AM and the dust blowing in the wind is impressive. The first fire starts at 10:25 and goes until about 12:20. At 14:15 a fire breaks out further west, just south of Little mountain. The fire lasts about 15 minutes. The blowing dust plumes diminish through the afternoon and at 17:25 the fire along the I-215 reignites. The winds spread the fire south along the freeway, reportedly for at least 11 blocks, the freeway is closed, and structures are burned. The flames appear to be mostly out when the day's image sequence ends at 21:00.



The first link starts at 9 AM; the image link starts at 17:00. The links start the time-lapse sequences at 0.5 sec frame intervals. If you have a fast connection, or once they've cycled through, you can set the rate to 0.1 sec.

This morning's sequence shows the west end of Little Mountain burning from the beginning of the sequence at 5:00 until about 7:25. I thought it was odd that I could smell smoke when I went out to get the paper at 6:45; I hadn't been to the computer yet, so didn't know about Little Mountain. My home is at the base of the south side of Little Mountain, roughly in-line with the I-215. Right now I hear sirens a couple of blocks south and there have been trucks rumbling east and west along my street, Marshall Blvd. S.B. Sun reports they're going to do a controlled burn on the south side to get rid of vegetation downwind of the earlier fire.