Hesperia Lightning - 10-19-10

On Tuesday evening and throughout most of the night there were several thunderstorms that rolled into the High Desert. As the waves of cells came through there were quite a few good lightning shows. I was able to catch a few shots. More photos can be seen here in the gallery section of FireWXPhoto.com.

Photo by EPN-564

San Bernardino County - Air Ambulance - Means Dry Lake - 10-16-10

On Saturday, October 16th, the San Bernardino County Fire Department responded to a medical call on the north end of Means Dry Lake. BE19, UT43, MA42R and Morongo Basin Ambulance were dispatched. Shortly after going enroute we were advised that MBA was requesting an air ambulance due to the information we had been given at the time of dispatch. Mercy Air 2 from Victorville was launched with a 30 minute ETA. BE19 was the first to arrive and found a patient with a severe hand injury. Once MA42R arrived, patient care was transferred to them so BE19 could wet down the LZ for Mercy. Once Mercy landed the patient was loaded and flown to an area trauma center. More photos can been seen here in the gallery section of FireWXPhoto.com.

Photo by EPN-564

Ord Mountain Repeater Repair and Lightning

In an effort to have reliable communications for our EPN activities we use a series of mountain top repeaters. Some of the systems we use are commercial private systems and some are Amateur Radio repeaters. The K7FY repeater on Ord Mountain has been down for some time and needed some repair and maintenance. On Saturday, October 2nd, Chris (EPN-560), Sandy (K7FY), Gil (K7GIL) and I went up to Ord Mountain to get the system back online. We replaced the batteries and did some antenna repair. While we were there a few thunderstorms rolled by and I managed to get one bolt in the lens.

Photos by EPN-564

LAPD Emergency Landing in Hollywood

In the early morning hours of October 8th, an LAPD helicopter made an emergency landing in a small park at the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd and Cole St. Just before 2am I heard an LAPD Air Unit say there were having mechanical trouble and were going to have to land. They requested LAPD officers, Fire Department and a RA to Santa Monica and Wilcox. The pilot found the small park to set down in and landed safely. There were no injuries.

Photos by EPN-564