FIRE BOARD POSITION AVAILABLE

There is a vacancy on the Mi Wuk Sugar Pine Fire Protection Fire Board.  If you have time and interest in serving your fire department and live within the district, please call the department at 209-586-5256, during regular business hours, for more information and an application.

Fire Board meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m., at the Hwy 108 Fire Station in Sugar Pine.  The public is welcome and encouraged to attend these meetings.  By attending the meeting you will know exactly what's going on within our department. (And dessert is served about half way through the meetings!)

IT'S RAINING AT 4500'

I didn't want to miss posting in February!  So here it is.  It's raining here in Mi Wuk and has been all day long.  Quite windy as well.  No snow at all.  37 degrees in our corner of the neighborhood.

I do not have the address, but an 80' dead cedar fell from a neighbor's lot onto a house on Lama Road.  I don't know the exacts whereabouts.

The tree narrowly missed a baby in it's crib and also broke into the master bedroom through the roof.

From MyMotherlode.com :

February 28, 2014    02:13 pm   Tracey Petersen, MML News Reporter

Mi-Wuk Village, CA -- A tree smashed into a Mi-Wuk Village home narrowly missing a baby sleeping in its crib. It happened Wednesday around 9:30 p.m. on Lama Road.

When Mi-Wuk Sugar Pine Fire Protection District firefighters arrived on the scene, they found a dead, 80-foot pine tree from a neighbor's yard had landed on the roof of the two story home. Four people, two adults and two children, were in the house when the tree came crashing down.

"There were no injuries," says Fire Chief Larry Crabtree. "We were very fortunate that even though the tree put a hole in the roof and the ceiling and debris landed on the floor in the baby's room, the baby was in bed, they were very lucky that the baby was not injured."

The tree also punched a hole in the master bedroom and caused structural damage to the house.  The tree broke into several pieces. One large section remains on the roof.

Chief Crabtree says, "It was in a precarious position where if it had rolled off the roof it would have taken out the power lines so we had PG & E come out and disconnect electric service to the house."
Crabtree believes strong winds caused the tree to snap.  He estimates the damage could add up to $50K and it could take six weeks to repair the home.



I had to go way back in my posts to find my accurate weather source which is
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.08052761936274&lon=-120.18562316894531&site=sto&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text#.UxEn3F7exNk 

It looks like we'll be having rain/snow this afternoon and tonight and showers Saturday, tapering off on Sunday and Monday.