Amid all the increasingly optimistic reports coming out on the county's various fires comes this cautionary note from retired Cal Fire Capt. Fred Daskoski, recalled to duty for this firestorm:
Partially contained fires are just that -- partially contained. And time may not be on the firefighters' side.
"Until we can get some sort of control line around these fires, it’s still a major hazard," he said. "There a possibility of a new high-pressure system coming into this area in the next couple of days."
With that renewed high pressure could come renewed high winds and low humidity, the conditions that helped the county's mega-fires make their destructive runs in the first place, Daskoski said.
"It could actually blow some of these fires out again and we could be right back to where we were," he said. "I just hope people don't get back into their homes and let their guard down. We're not out of the woods yet."
--Greg Gross, Breaking News Team
San Diego County Wildfires 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Cal Fire: "We're not out of the woods yet."
Posted @ 8:23 AM
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I don't understand-Santa Ana Winds
are predictable when temperatures rise as well as high pressures and it is always this time of year.
Question: isn't it cheaper to pay spotters to sit and do nothing, but be ready for an immediate response than to allow lives to be lost and millions spent. Kind of like insurance. It seems who ever makes these decisions should be replaced with more qualified policy makers, both and state.
So keep living out of suitcases and boxes for a couple more weeks. . .better safe than sorry.
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