Published on February 09, 2017
PRESS RELEASE – February 8, 2017
San Francisquito Creek Reaches Historic Peak Flows
Menlo Park Fire Protection District – San Francisco Bay Area
See Video Link – Please Credit Menlo Fire UAS/Drone Program
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2p79mm98cg7vrv1/AADbIqz4N4RLwfjSM6Yzu4Sqa?dl=0
Bordering San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties as well as the cities of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, the San Francisquito Creek stretches from Highway 280 down to the Bay. At Peak Stream Flow on Tuesday, it made the record books as the 6th largest flow at 4820 cubic feet per second (CFS) as recorded by the USGS Gage located near Junipero Serra Blvd with data being collected since 1930 and as reported by the Creek JPA. .
1. February 3, 1998 7200 CFS
2. December 22, 1955 5560 CFS
3. December 23, 2012 5400 CFS
4. January 4, 1982 5220 CFS
5. January 1, 2005 4840 CFS
6. February 7, 2017 4820 CFS
Fire Captains Tony Eggimann and Chris Dennebaum are part of the Menlo Park Fire Districts UAS/Drone Team that captured the Creek action at West Bayshore underpass at Highway 101 in the City of East Palo Alto on Tuesday.
“Our personnel will be out on Thursday watching the San Francisquito Creek and other waterways as the next storm passes through the area” Fire Chief Schapelhouman said “we will be using the UAS/Drone at every opportunity to give us better situational awareness and so we can better document these events in real time showing the cause and effect, at various risk areas”, he said .
In recent weeks the UAS/Drone operators have flown a variety of aerial missions that range from water rescue and recovery incidents, aerial observation of congested traffic intersections, aerial footage of live fire safety demonstration’s, including the firefighter recruit academy fire training and a joint emergency preparedness exercise with Facebook.
“The UAS/Drone video and photographs are becoming a very powerful and helpful tool in how we convey and show the public what we are doing or what we are concerned about from an aerial perspective” said Chief Schapelhouman, “it’s a game changer for us”.
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