ANOTHER PALOMAR MOUNTAIN REPORT

This came from Bonnie Phelps. It's from a gentleman referred to as "Bob K." I don't know who that is, or can't remember. Still, this is the only encouraging thing I've heard about Palomar and you should perhaps take my earlier report with a grain of salt.

"The fire burned through the State Park, lost a garage in State Park but
believes the homes were saved. Hasn't reached the Conference Center yet or
the School Camp yet but they certainly are not out of jeopardy

Baileys, Crestline, and Birch Hill all fine now.

Draw a line from the La Jolla Camp Ground to Boucher Lookout. That is the
line of the fire. It is cooled off, burning the undergrowth and not getting
a lot of the trees.

3 or 4 engines from Forest Service, one patrol truck from CDF, one engine
from Rincon, our volunteers have their tanker, and two engines staffed and
on the fire line.

Looks like we will be living this fire for a few days. There is no shortage
of fires in San Diego. The good news is we got their attention because they
did make a couple drops and hopefully they realize what we have up here.

The wind is so strong that it is now pushing everything down the sloop so
now the wind has really been a great asset to us.

We have seen this throughout Southern Cal that it looks so optimistic but
then things can change. No one should think of returning to their property
for least another few days to a week until the crews can construct a
complete line.

Without some sort of containment with either hand crews, retardant lines,
and bulldozers, the fire continues to threaten the Mountain."

Bob was on the East Grade Road at one of the turnouts and said he saw a
solid line of fire all the way to the County Road Station. The goal now is
to create a backfire all along State Park Road to hopefully get the fire
from jumping State Park Road.

Bob will report in for us in the morning.

Good night all.