During Week 4, some student staff members delivered luggage to the evacuated campers, but most returned to Sierra Camp to clear additional brush around the site. "We used everything," Bunnett said, referring to the food intended for the Week 3 campers. During Week 3, the remaining staff fed local fire crews and forest service "hot shot" crews working in the area.
STANFORD CAMP FALLEN LEAF LAKE FULL
Camp sessions that week and the following week (Weeks 3 and 4) were canceled, and campers received a full refund. They were under orders to evacuate by motorboat to the center of Fallen Leaf Lake if the fire threatened them, he said. "The staff did really well."įive staff members who are volunteers with the Fallen Leaf Fire Department and four other staffers stayed behind, Bunnett said. "Nobody panicked it was very orderly," he said.
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Camp Director David Bunnett, '83, who is captain of the Fallen Leaf Fire Department, said 400 campers and staff were safely evacuated in 15 minutes after the sheriff of El Dorado County issued a mandatory order June 24. Hot spots within the burned area will continue to be monitored by fire crews until the seasonal rains start in the fall. The blaze destroyed about 260 homes in the area but did not damage the camp. The 3,200-acre wildfire that began June 24 in the area west of South Lake Tahoe near Stanford Sierra Camp on Fallen Leaf Lake was 100 percent contained on July 7. (For full story, see Campus Report, July 15, 1992.) No one was injured and no structures were damaged, but the blaze came within a few hundred feet of several campus homes. About 200 homes and campus buildings were evacuated as a result of that fire. On July 10, 1992, a 500-acre blaze near the Dish took more than 100 firefighters about three hours to contain. It has been 15 years since the last large fire in the foothills, Pena noted. Since the first fire, university officials have stepped up precautionary efforts to build firebreaks in the foothills by mowing grass and turning over topsoil, Stanford Assistant Fire Marshal Alison Pena said. Fire engines from the Palo Alto Fire Department and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection responded, and fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters dropped fire retardant on the blaze. No homes or structures were damaged in either fire, and no residents were evacuated, but two firefighters at the second blaze were treated for heat exhaustion, said Deputy Sheriff Chris Cohendet of the Department of Public Safety.įor safety reasons, electricity was briefly shut off to 2,000 homes on July 5 because a power line ran through the vicinity of the fire. The July 5 fire near the Dish was reported at 1:20 p.m. The June 25 fire began in the afternoon near Page Mill Road and Junipero Serra Boulevard and was contained by the evening. The case will be forwarded to the Santa Clara County Juvenile Probation Department for review, Brunot said. The parent of one of the juveniles discovered her child's involvement in starting the fire and contacted the Stanford Department of Public Safety and the Palo Alto Fire Department." The children, who are not being identified in accordance with state law, were interviewed by Stanford police officers and released to their parents' custody. "The juveniles and a passing witness attempted to extinguish the fire, but it spread quickly.
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"The juveniles were playing with matches, trying to light dried grass, when the fire ignited," Brunot said in a statement about the first blaze.
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As a result, the Dish recreation area will remain closed to the public until at least through July 15, Brunot said. Meanwhile, the cause of the 20-acre fire in the foothills on July 5 is still under investigation. Nick Brunot of the university Department of Public Safety. Two juveniles sparked the grass fire in the Stanford foothills June 25 that burned about 171 acres, according to Capt.
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The June 25 fire, which charred about 171 acres in the Stanford foothills, was sparked by two juveniles playing with matches, according to university police.