Congratulations to our consultant Melanie Schlotterbeck for her recent accomplishment. She just received (this week in the chaos of the Blue Ridge Fire) Senate District 29’s Woman of Distinction Award for the Environment from Senator Ling Ling Chang. Her work continues to protect the environment, bring communities together, and plan for a more sustainable future. Great job!
Read about the Blue Ridge Fire which burned 62% of Chino Hills State Park damaging the Rolling M Ranch barn, ranger house, and two bridges. View the Hills For Everyone e-alert.
Time for another update. Unfortunately, less information has been available publicly about the #BlueRidgeFire perimeter and its hotspots today than on previous days. For example, CalFire still lists the acreage as 14,334–which was the acreage listed yesterday and we know the fire is continuing to slowly burn. The good news is, most community members evacuated from the Blue Ridge Fire have made it back home, including Hills For Everyone staff. Here is what we can share today: 1. We’ve created … Read More
It is our understanding that the Blue Ridge Fire has 16% containment and has burned 14,334 acres as of the briefing this morning. These numbers have been adjusted from the 15,200 acre estimate yesterday now that revised mapping has been completed. From our sources (fire agencies, state park staff, and eye witness accounts), here is what we know today: 1. Most of this acreage burned appears to be in the San Bernardino County portion of the Chino Hills State Park. … Read More
While the official fire perimeter has NOT been released because it is still an active event, we digitized the perimeter provided by CAL FIRE from the briefing this morning and have estimated (not confirmed) that roughly 7,960 acres of Chino Hills State Park have burned. This amounts to 56% of the State Park. Again, this is just an estimate pulling together sources from publicly available maps and overlaying the data.