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2017-Oct-09, Monday 17:41Forgive me folks, its been 2 months since I last posted...
Getting out of storage in Santa Clara is NOT going to happen before Dickens, but splitting the unit into 2 smaller ones still onsite MIGHT be doable.
The big news is the fires up in the wine country.
Im sitting indoors in Pleasanton and it reeks like an ashtray.
There was already a fire up in Butte county, and another in Yuba.
The Atlas fire got going last night around 9pm.
It went from 200 to 12,000 acres in 10 hours.
Atlas joins 3 more between Napa & Santa Rosa and a 5th north of Calistoga.
They closed and evacuated Kaiser Santa Rosa and Sutter Santa Rosa, leaving only SR Memorial.
They dont expect control of ANYTHING before Friday.
The priority is evacuating people and the only structures they are going to defend are the hospitals & shelters.
They dont have manpower to protect anything else.
They are starting to suppress some structure fires mostly as fire breaks.
The mutual aid call went out predawn when winds got pretty high.
The Salvation Army Canteen Im attached to is on standby.
Saturday, was the Jensie Gran Fondo cycling event.
We had 1400 riders out there with the usual handful of scrapes and 1 wipeout resulted in what I THINK was a broken collarbone.
I was the "radio guy" for one of the event vehicles out on the course.
Early in the morning, i was cleaning "roadkill" up off the course when the first peloton passed me.
Those are INTENSE!
At one intersection we had a missing course marshall.
We looped through base for lunch when we heard there had been a crash at the same intersection as the missing marshall.
We bolted across the field and headed back.
A half mile away, I could see a sea of red trucks.
You name a jurisdiction, they were there.
We helivaced 1 to Santa Rosa Memorial and the other 3 went by ambulance to Marin General.
The other 3 bikes were damaged but repairable.
Very quickly, we realized we had a crime scene and once CHP had their pics & measurements, we helped tag & bag everything we could find.
1 bike, we never found all the pieces.
Considering the size of the debris field, this guy took some serious air.
I found one of his water bottles 30 feet away from where he landed.
He had a car key in his pocket. I found it bent in half.
We eventually figured out that those strips of aluminum along the road were the remains of his rear rim.
Never found the spokes of even the rear gear cluster.
It was as if the bike had been fed through a shredder.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7502828-181/chp-hit-and-run-driver-intentionally-struck
Getting out of storage in Santa Clara is NOT going to happen before Dickens, but splitting the unit into 2 smaller ones still onsite MIGHT be doable.
The big news is the fires up in the wine country.
Im sitting indoors in Pleasanton and it reeks like an ashtray.
There was already a fire up in Butte county, and another in Yuba.
The Atlas fire got going last night around 9pm.
It went from 200 to 12,000 acres in 10 hours.
Atlas joins 3 more between Napa & Santa Rosa and a 5th north of Calistoga.
They closed and evacuated Kaiser Santa Rosa and Sutter Santa Rosa, leaving only SR Memorial.
They dont expect control of ANYTHING before Friday.
The priority is evacuating people and the only structures they are going to defend are the hospitals & shelters.
They dont have manpower to protect anything else.
They are starting to suppress some structure fires mostly as fire breaks.
The mutual aid call went out predawn when winds got pretty high.
The Salvation Army Canteen Im attached to is on standby.
Saturday, was the Jensie Gran Fondo cycling event.
We had 1400 riders out there with the usual handful of scrapes and 1 wipeout resulted in what I THINK was a broken collarbone.
I was the "radio guy" for one of the event vehicles out on the course.
Early in the morning, i was cleaning "roadkill" up off the course when the first peloton passed me.
Those are INTENSE!
At one intersection we had a missing course marshall.
We looped through base for lunch when we heard there had been a crash at the same intersection as the missing marshall.
We bolted across the field and headed back.
A half mile away, I could see a sea of red trucks.
You name a jurisdiction, they were there.
We helivaced 1 to Santa Rosa Memorial and the other 3 went by ambulance to Marin General.
The other 3 bikes were damaged but repairable.
Very quickly, we realized we had a crime scene and once CHP had their pics & measurements, we helped tag & bag everything we could find.
1 bike, we never found all the pieces.
Considering the size of the debris field, this guy took some serious air.
I found one of his water bottles 30 feet away from where he landed.
He had a car key in his pocket. I found it bent in half.
We eventually figured out that those strips of aluminum along the road were the remains of his rear rim.
Never found the spokes of even the rear gear cluster.
It was as if the bike had been fed through a shredder.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7502828-181/chp-hit-and-run-driver-intentionally-struck
