Cedar Fire
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Oct 26, 2026
Scott ShepherdHOST
It hadn't.
Scott ShepherdHOST
The Cedar Fire had dropped ash on everything.
Scott ShepherdHOST
My guest today woke up to the same thing years later in the backcountry.
Scott ShepherdHOST
A layer of ash on a student's sleeping bags from a fire 15 miles away.
Scott ShepherdHOST
Yeah, that's a strange new adjustment that people all across North America, I think, are beginning to understand, at a minimum, be exposed to.
Scott ShepherdHOST
My first experience with a heavy smoke day was back in 2003.
Scott ShepherdHOST
There was a fire in San Diego called the Cedar Fire.
Scott ShepherdHOST
And I remember waking up in the morning at a friend's house and it looked like it had snowed the night before.
Matt DusaGUEST
So in 2007, uh, the, the wildfire, uh, situation in California, 'cause that's, that's where this business, uh, was, was started in, in Northern California.
Matt DusaGUEST
You know, Southern California had just come through a big fire, uh, siege, the Cedar Fire in 2003, and, and fires were burning and getting bigger and bigger as things got hotter and drier.
Matt DusaGUEST
Uh, and so we, we bought this company in '07 and then the financial crisis hit.
Matt DusaGUEST
And also in that, in that timeframe, the federal government changed how they dispatched private resources to combat, uh, wildland fires.
Vern WarnkeGUEST
Yep.
Casey SteedHOST
And, uh, I know in the Cedar Fire down in San Diego, which was a big one, started with a hunter that was scared and started a little signal fire, and back then they, uh, didn't fly after dark.
Vern WarnkeGUEST
Yeah.
Casey SteedHOST
And the fire grew and grew, and actually burnt all the way to the ocean.
Joe TylerGUEST
Well, I'll even step back.
Joe TylerGUEST
Before that, we saw the Cedar Fire in 2003.
Joe TylerGUEST
We saw the Witch Fire in 2007.
Joe TylerGUEST
But they were spread out.
Julie ShawNARRATOR
The network of remote sensors that eventually grew into Alert California began in two thousand and one to detect and communicate seismic activity around San Diego.
Julie ShawNARRATOR
When the two thousand and three Cedar Fire near San Diego burned more than a quarter million acres and killed fifteen people, it was clear cameras would be useful.
Julie ShawNARRATOR
A local utility asked to have more than two dozen installed.
Julie ShawNARRATOR
State officials, utilities, and fire departments were convinced that investing in more cameras was a smart move, and linking them into one open-source, nonprofit system made the most sense.
Dan KleinmanGUEST
And then he disappeared for many years.
Dan KleinmanGUEST
And, um, Oh, probably 15 years ago when, uh, they started standing up, uh, An L580 is partly based on the Cedar Fire of 2008, but here's Brian.
Dan KleinmanGUEST
And so he was, I don't know if he was a deputy chief.
Dan KleinmanGUEST
He wasn't the chief of San Diego Fire and Rescue, but he was heavily involved with that and a real pusher on leadership development.
John ClementsHOST
Mm-hmm
Ken AndersonHOST
... um, the Cedar Fire-
John ClementsHOST
Mm
Ken AndersonHOST
... in-