Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:54     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.

Common out west. CA is very dry.


Very scary.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:52     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.

Common out west. CA is very dry.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:51     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

Okay, I looked up. Interestingly, Claremont as an AQI of 33 and Westwood's is 46. Both are excellent, so I guess the bad air is being blown elsewhere in LA. (To compare, DC has an AQI of 40 right now.) Source: https://www.airnow.gov/

Interesting. Probably being blown out of state over the next several days.

These numbers are surprising to me. There’s visual ash falling all over Westwood right now, and you can taste the debris in the air.

Yuck. We are in a western state that will probably receive some of the smoke eventually, as that is typical, but fresh local smoke is the worst.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:48     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:43     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

Okay, I looked up. Interestingly, Claremont as an AQI of 33 and Westwood's is 46. Both are excellent, so I guess the bad air is being blown elsewhere in LA. (To compare, DC has an AQI of 40 right now.) Source: https://www.airnow.gov/

Interesting. Probably being blown out of state over the next several days.

These numbers are surprising to me. There’s visual ash falling all over Westwood right now, and you can taste the debris in the air.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:42     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:Then there's this:

"The Northwestern women's basketball team said Friday that it won't travel to Los Angeles for games against UCLA and USC next week due to concerns surrounding the ongoing wildfires in the area.
...
UCLA's Westwood campus and its basketball arena, Pauley Pavilion, sit about 7 miles east of Pacific Palisades, the epicenter of the largest of those fires.

The Bruins said there is no immediate threat posed to their campus by the fires, and that air quality there is allowing indoor and outdoor activities. They also said they provided alternative options for where the game could be played."

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/43363256/citing-fires-northwestern-calls-upcoming-trips-ucla-usc


It allows the hotel rooms to be used by those who have been displaced.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:40     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

Okay, I looked up. Interestingly, Claremont as an AQI of 33 and Westwood's is 46. Both are excellent, so I guess the bad air is being blown elsewhere in LA. (To compare, DC has an AQI of 40 right now.) Source: https://www.airnow.gov/

Interesting. Probably being blown out of state over the next several days.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:39     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Then there's this:

"The Northwestern women's basketball team said Friday that it won't travel to Los Angeles for games against UCLA and USC next week due to concerns surrounding the ongoing wildfires in the area.
...
UCLA's Westwood campus and its basketball arena, Pauley Pavilion, sit about 7 miles east of Pacific Palisades, the epicenter of the largest of those fires.

The Bruins said there is no immediate threat posed to their campus by the fires, and that air quality there is allowing indoor and outdoor activities. They also said they provided alternative options for where the game could be played."

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/43363256/citing-fires-northwestern-calls-upcoming-trips-ucla-usc

Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:38     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

Okay, I looked up. Interestingly, Claremont as an AQI of 33 and Westwood's is 46. Both are excellent, so I guess the bad air is being blown elsewhere in LA. (To compare, DC has an AQI of 40 right now.) Source: https://www.airnow.gov/
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:36     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:UCLA Just sent out an email to "Prepare in case an evacuation order is issued"

Pre-evacuation warning, while not comforting, is standard procedure. https://bso.ucla.edu/news/bruinalert-evacuation-warning-issued-zone-adjacent-ucla-not-evacuation-stay-vigilant-ready
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:34     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
Anonymous wrote:UCLA Just sent out an email to "Prepare in case an evacuation order is issued"


It’s extremely close to Brentwood right now.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:34     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
UCLA Just sent out an email to "Prepare in case an evacuation order is issued"
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:33     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
I'm sure it's very, very disruptive while so many faculty, staff, friends and family are subject to evacuation orders. (Most students live closer to campus.). The impact should decrease once those are lifted. Then the community can pull together to support those whose homes have been lost or damaged.

--UCLA alum
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:24     Subject: UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
I’d be worried about zoom classes. See if faculty union is making noises about this
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 16:24     Subject: Re:UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?
There should be almost no impact on admissions. Other than Pepperdine, not a lot of students are going to LA for Altadena or Malibu. This is more likely to have affected faculty than staff; living in the hills is a luxury. We’ve seen a lot of gofundme for students’ families, but the staff themselves mostly live in the city.