Fire Related Links

• Fire Services
  • Scanner services online and related items
    • http://firescan.net/ – the local, online, fire scanner service (see below for specific links)
    • http://www.firescan.net/cgi-bin/chindex.php?ch[]=0 – Santa Cruz County Fire 
    • http://www.firescan.net/cgi-bin/chindex.php?ch[]=3 – Santa Clara County Fire 
    • http://www.firescan.net/cgi-bin/chindex.php?ch[]=2 – Santa Clara County Ranger Unit (Cal Fire)
    • http://www.firescan.net/cgi-bin/chindex.php?ch[]=1 – Santa Cruz County Emergency Dispatch
    • http://tunein.com/radio/Santa-Cruz-County-Fire-and-CAL-FIRE-s145538/ – Santa Cruz county sources
    • http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/344 – Santa Cruz county sources
    • Radio Frequencies For Your Own Scanner:

• 151.370 MHz – CZU Local – Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Ranger Unit, dispatched from Felton
• 151.445 MHz – SCU Local – Cal Fire Santa Clara Ranger Unit, dispatched from Morgan Hill
• 154.250 MHz – Santa Clara County Fire primary dispatch
• 154.325 MHz – Red Fire – primary emergency dispatch for Santa Cruz County
• Twitter based information
  • @jrpstonecarver – twitter – information about major events in our area only (nothing off topic). Things you might leave work for, or call home about.
  • @calfireczu – twitter – information from Santa Cruz county fire. Brand new as of this writing, but seems to be focused on the county.
  • @lomaprietafire – twitter – information directly from the Loma Prieta volunteers. Not updated often – generally the volunteers are working the incident, not tweeting about it – but look for it to provide information in the winter when storms are knocking trees over and roads are being closed. And there may be other times when it is used.
  • @firedispatchsc – twitter – the dispatch center covering the cities and other parts of Santa Cruz county not covered by the Cal Fire dispatch in Felton.
  • @NativeSantaCruz – twitter – a Santa Cruz resident who monitors a scanner and tweets about events that can impact us, along with other things.
  • @jcopeland_sc – twitter – Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter who tweets story links, some of which include information about incidents in our area.

• @CALFIRE_CHIEF – twitter – Cal Fire’s state fire chief
• @CALFIRE_PIO – twitter – Cal Fire’s information officer
• @CAL_FIRE – twitter – general Cal Fire feed
• @CalFireUpdates – twitter – private user tweeting about Cal Fire items
• @wildlandfirecom – twitter – private user tweeting about fire related things

• Facebook Based Sources:
  • https://www.facebook.com/sccfd.org – Santa Clara county fire department
  • https://www.facebook.com/calfire.santaclara – Santa Clara county Cal Fire chapter
  • https://www.facebook.com/pages/California-Department-of-Forestry-and-Fire-Protection/107873579240658?rf=112559388763608 – Cal Fire (statewide)
  • https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE – Another statewide Cal Fire page
  • https://www.facebook.com/pages/Calfire-Updates/190788880954789 – page about Cal Fire incidents, managed by someone outside of Cal Fire, I think
  • https://www.facebook.com/pages/California-State-Parks-Santa-Cruz-Fire-Management/111262572358575 – data about controlled burns run by State Parks in the Santa Cruz District
• Other Sources:
  • http://www.fire.ca.gov/ – main site
  • http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current – current incident list
    http://www.fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps.php – fire map
  • http://www.readyforwildfire.org/ – Cal Fire’s website for helping you prepare for fires
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCU_ubPynA_UVP4ehvOr-w – Cal Fire on YouTube
  • http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/AviationGuide_FINAL_webbooklet.pdf – Cal Fire aircraft identification guide
  • http://www.wfas.net/ – fire danger status website
  • http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/subsets/fdc_o_cn.png – currently observed fire danger for Northern California
  • http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/subsets/fdc_f_cn.png – tomorrows forecast fore danger for Northern California
  • http://lomaprietafire.blogspot.com/ – Loma Prieta VFD blog

http://www.firedispatch.com/ – sign up to recieve email about incidents in any area they cover. This includes most things dispatched by Netcom in Santa Cruz, and many things dispatched by Cal Fire. You control what sorts of emails you get. Note that not all calls that result in a dispatch also result in an email. These systems are complicated, and the interconnections aren’t always obvious.