INDEX
- Campus fire crew deployed to the Mosquito Fire on Friday
- Underwater drone monitors smoke particles in Lake Tahoe
- AggieTravel is now AggieExpense, with streamlined screens
- Blood drive nets 145 pints; bloodmobiles return in November
A twin mission on Mosquito Fire
A 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 fire crew continues to help in the fight against the Mosquito Fire in Placer and El Dorado counties as 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 researchers at Lake Tahoe study the impact of smoke from the blaze.
The four-person 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Fire Department team deployed to the fire Friday (Sept. 9), and have since spent time mopping up the heel of the fire, dousing hot spots and patrolling the area, Fire Chief Nate Trauernicht said.
Today (Sept. 13) marks one week since the blaze began, and it has exploded in size. It now encompasses 49,800 acres, with less than a fifth of it contained, . The fire is threatening nearly 6,000 structures and has led to thousands of evacuations.
鈥淩esources continue to arrive in the area to assist with the full suppression efforts against the Mosquito Fire,鈥 Cal Fire said in its latest status update.
The campus firefighters, aboard Brush 34, are: Capt. Paul Rush; engineer Derek Carthy; and firefighters Meggie Elledge and Cara Martinez. This marks the first time the have been deployed to a wildfire together, Trauernicht said.
![Smokey sky and sunset above Lake Tahoe](/sites/default/files/media/images/tahoe-smoke-430.jpg)
The air quality in Davis and surrounding areas has been impacted by the fire, but onshore winds are keeping the worst smoke near and northeast of the fire today, .
While that may be good news for Davis, it鈥檚 bad news for the areas closer to the fire. While smoke from the blaze blankets the Lake Tahoe region, theT on a monthlong deployment to study the effects of smoke particles falling onto the lake.
AggieExpense is live
Changes to AggieTravel took effect Monday (Sept. 12), serving up cleaner, streamlined screens and giving the app a new name, AggieExpense, reflecting the diversity of transactions that go through the system.
User interface changes include larger fonts with easier-to-read text; larger fields for ease of searching for and entering data; and easier-to-use buttons. The changes do not affect overall functionality or change how requests or reports are processed.
Along with the new name come new addresses:
- URL 鈥
- Help desk email 鈥 expensehelp@ucdavis.edu
Note, however, that new addresses redirect to the old ones.
Blood drive collects 145 pints
Vitalant reported collecting 145 pints of blood in the last campus blood drive, Aug. 30-31 鈥淲e had a wonderful Summer Session II blood drive,鈥 said Maria Gillen of Vitalant. 鈥Once again, our UCD students showed generosity and kindness, and we saw many first-time donors, which is so encouraging.鈥 Vitalant鈥檚 next drive on campus will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 8-10.
Media Resources
Dateline Staff: Dave Jones, editor, 530-752-6556, dateline@ucdavis.edu; Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.