Good news for now

[DennisL]

Amidst all the complete horribleness of the situation, and wondering if it could any more awful, I HAVE EXCELLENT NEWS


I spoke to Tom at Mountain Storage at 8:45am Monday. He says Waters Drive in VOE is fine. Johnny's market is fine. No fires in VOE. Of course power is out.

He drove into town to Goodwins and did NOT see any fires. He went up to Top Town and it looked fine. Nothing burned. He said that he can see lots of smoke to the west, but no flames. He says the smoke is coming up through Devil's Canyon from the Devore fire.

Obviously, we aren't home free yet, but according to Tom, it's a lot better than many of the news reports.

Dennis

PS - I posted this because I didn't see a reply button on the Crestline Fire states thread. ?

[DennisL]

Brief Update:

I just spoke to Tom @ Mountain Storage @ 11am Monday. He says he can see "water tankers" hitting the fire to the west (towards Devils Canyon) and also maybe the chemical dropping planes. He says the smoke is now white, not brown, and this usually indicates a smoldering fire and not an actively burning fire

Dennis

[Amy]

Unfortunately if you look on the news they show the fires in VOE and Lake Gregory above Goodwins.

[DennisL]

I spoke to Tom @ Mountain Storage again at 1:45pm, Monday. He said that around 12:30pm he took a drive down Waters Dr. in VOE, then up to Top Town, and down to Lake Gregory. He did NOT see any fires in VOE, although he heard the fire was moving up Devil's Canyon and might be threatening Cedar Pines Park. From Goodwins he could see fire "up on the Rim", probably near Red Wall.

The power is still out, but the mail was delivered today to the mail boxes in the VOE Post Office !!!

Dennis

[Jon Betow]

My parents have a place in Crestline/ Gregory off of Thousand Pines Road so I have been trying to get information for them since they are on there way to stay with me in OC. Can you please tell me what VOE is?

Thanks

[DennisL]

VOE is Valley of Enchantment. From Top Town, if you take Highway 138 it will take you right into VOE.
You can see it on this map:
rimoftheworld.net
It's hard to read, but you can see Valley of Enchantment. It's to the left of Lake Gregory. See the top-most SPOTTING? It's just below that. The map shows the area as spotting with fires, but Tpm says he hasn't seen any.

Dennis

[JonBetow]

Thanks Dennis.... I should of figured that out but then again I am a "Flatlander".

Thanks for the info on the Rim of the World web site... will be good info for me to pass on to the folks when they arrive.

Jon

[Janice]

My Dad lives on Tetley Lane in VOE, but he is in South Dakota at the moment. Trying to find out anything exact seems impossible. In our area, when there are fires the CDF usually posts street information at the evacutation sites. Does anyone have a phone # or website for them?

DennisL said:

Amidst all the complete horribleness of the situation, and wondering if it could any more awful, I HAVE EXCELLENT NEWS


I spoke to Tom at Mountain Storage at 8:45am Monday. He says Waters Drive in VOE is fine. Johnny's market is fine. No fires in VOE. Of course power is out.

He drove into town to Goodwins and did NOT see any fires. He went up to Top Town and it looked fine. Nothing burned. He said that he can see lots of smoke to the west, but no flames. He says the smoke is coming up through Devil's Canyon from the Devore fire.

Obviously, we aren't home free yet, but according to Tom, it's a lot better than many of the news reports.

Dennis

PS - I posted this because I didn't see a reply button on the Crestline Fire states thread. ?