Update Monday, 7 October 2024, 12:00 p.m.
Cal Fire PIO Jason Clay reported Glen Haven Fire of 417 acres is 51% contained.
Cal Fire has lifted the majority of Evacuation Orders, except:
Evacuation Warnings:
Glen HAVEN:
E 094-B
Clearlake Oaks:
CLO E098
CLO E099 … everything else was cleared Clay said.
Structures: Two destroyed, one single family home, damaged. No injuries or fatalities. either Fire Fighters or civilians.
Mondays weather was expected to be dry, temperature 93 degrees, 20% humidity, 20 %, winds at 10 to 15 mph, but by evening 10 to 17 mph, with gust up to 25 mph, after 5 p.m.
“We’ll be here through the week,” said PIO Clay. “Tomorrow there’ll be a lot of suppression work. And we’ll be investigating any hazards in the burn zone. By Friday night the forward progress of the fire started to die down. The fire’s forward progress has now stopped.”
Update: A permanent shelter was opened officially at 4 p.m. Friday at the Twin Pine Casino in Middletown.
LUCERNE>> Two temporary evacuation shelters were opened at press time Friday in response to the ongoing fire at the 9900 block of Harvey Street in Glenhaven, at the north and south side of the area, at the Lucerne Senior Center and the old Airport Property in Clearlake. Officials reported a permanent evacuation shelter would open at Twin Pine Casino and Hotel located at 22223 in Middletown per Lake County Sheriff’s Office shortly thereafter.
Law enforcement were busy arranging transportation for evacuees to Twin Pine.
“What we do for an event like this is provide the facility for the Red Cross and they bring the volunteers and the people then we go from there,” said Charles Behne Chairman of the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center as people arrived from the evacuated areas which included Glenhaven and parts of the Oaks.
Behne had tips for people with pets. “We just brought a dumpster, no pets inside here but animal control is bringing some crates for live animals so they can keep them out back and we can take care of them. If they come until the crates/cages get here they (animals) will be outside, because of food and everything else.
He added people should prepare accordingly, “I would say it depends on how long you are going to stay because if it gets where it’s days then the other part of the Red Cross would bring in cots if it gets that far they will bring in showers, we have handicap showers here for handicap people because they can’t go out and use a shower.”
He added that If people have medication they need refrigerated, the center has a refrigerator specifically for that. “No oxygen but they should bring their own if they need it.,” he added.
Upscaling the effort is a call made by the County according to Pastor Shannon Kimbell-Auth Community Risk Reduction Coordinator at American Red Cross. The Department of Social Services working with fire teams will say if overnight shelters are needed, not just temporary evacuations, “This is a temporary and we are opening another at the Airport,” she said adding that school children were bused to that shelter.
“Certainly bring your pets and if you don’t have a crate, Animal Control will bring you one,” she said. “Things to bring include pet food, for yourself bring the things you need, oxygen tank can be recharged here, bring your personal stuff cell phone chargers, important papers, a change of clothes in case its going to be overnight.,” she added.
According Butch Engle, the KPFZ disaster reporter for the community radio station who provided fire coverage and was following the fire remotely Friday afternoon, “Not as much burning as previously,” he reported winds were moderate and a moderate spread Friday afternoon. He said it was not as smokey as when the fire started hours before. “Still a large area burning but not as much flame, he said, adding that helicopters continued dropping water.”
According to Engle, air Tankers run every 20 to 30 minutes dropping retardant in front of the fire.
HWY 20 remained closed at the Roundabout at Route 53. Route 20 was fully closed from Glenhaven to Clearlake Oaks in Lake County due to the fire.
—William Roller contributed to this report.
