Weekend SPORTS entertainment Thursday SULL wins area tournament ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 July 10, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Friday: Hot H 101º L 56º 7 58551 69301 0 Saturday: Sunny H 99º L 56º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 92 email:
[email protected] FIRE UPDATE Containment Invasion? or tech aid? reaches 65% Local residents react to new Google feature that lets anyone see their home on the Web The Daily Journal By ROB BURGESS Firefighters continued to work to con- The Daily Journal tain the remaining fires still burning Thanks to a controversial feature that has uncontrolled in the county Wednesday as been added to the popular Google Maps high temperatures continued to batter the search engine, scaling a substantial height is fire lines. no longer necessary to invoke the phrase, “I By 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Mendocino can see my house from here.” Lightning Complex fires had burned In fact, anyone can probably see your 51,200 acres, with 37 fires still burning, house from here -- and from street level, no and containment at 65 percent. less. Additional firefighters, some from as “It’s kind of scary that someone could just far away as Canada, joined the fight go and see that,” said Jennifer Nix, of Ukiah, Tuesday, bringing the total number of as she peered at a laptop screen showing a firefighters on the lines to 1,863, backed street-level view of her home Wednesday up by 168 fire engines, 67 water tenders, morning at the Coffee Critic.