Re: Santa Monica FD vs Palisades Fire

[Peteri Szerlagi]

on the damage map can see burnt blds within 5 blocks of santa monica

san vincente blvd is the border - actually 1 block north of san vincente blvd

https://recovery.lacounty.gov/palisades-fire/

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM Peteri Szerlagi <zer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> per the radio traffic
>
> at approx the same time that LAFD dispatched the call - Santa Monica
> Eng 4 was sent to a smoke check next to their station - maybe at the
> hospital that is next door - within 3 minutes Eng 4 reported they
> could see the smoke and that it was in Pacific Palisades - they
> returned to their station at that point - the dispatcher said that
> they had just received 2 more 911 calls about the fire
>
> looking at the map - the Santa Monica E4 station is approx 3.5 air
> miles from the fire
>
> lets see if we can figure out what the closest stations to the fire were -
>
> la city sta 23 to fire - 3 miles - 10 minutes - per google maps directions
>
> la city fd sta 69 to fire - 3 miles - 12 minutes
>
> la county sta 69 - 9 miles - 21 minutes
>
> la county sta 70 - approx 8 miles - maybe 18 minutes - google maps
> wont spit out any good numbers - is PCH blocked along the route
> somewhere?
>
> santa monica sta 2 - 9 miles - 25 minutes
>
> the location that the fire started was far from any fire stations -
> but ISO probably didnt care since the distance was only 3 miles - big
> mistake - we have talked about this before