Between September 28 and October 4, 2008, these were some of the topics we covered on Wildfire Today:
–San Diego County released a map identifying areas that were most at risk from wildland fire.
–The AD Firefighter Association shut down.
–U.S. Forest Service officials began investigating why a prescribed fire outside of Camp Sherman in Oregon burned out of control, jumping from a 31-acre planned burn to what became the 1,150-acre Wizard Fire.
–One of five men accused of starting a wildfire near Malibu, California that became the Zaca fire destroying 53 homes, admitted that he and his friends accidentally touched off the blaze, and then agreed not to tell authorities.
–An Arizona corrections officer, Douglas Falconer, 46, apparently died of natural causes shortly after the crew began working to contain a fire near Lake Havasu City.
–The San Diego Gas and Electric Company, whose power lines are blamed for starting the 1970 Laguna fire and the 2007 Witch Creek fire, both over 100,000 acres, planned to de-energize some power lines during periods of extreme weather.
