So-Cal Fire Thread -- BYOP*

[buckweaver]

Re: Malibu burning

After the Old Fire in '03, San Bernardino County fire department crews have been hard at work every winter removing dead trees in the mountain communities and outlying areas.

SBFD spokesman Jeff Bradford said "several hundred homes" were saved from these fires because those dead trees were removed.

 

[Angola!]

Re: Malibu burning

Just heard on a San Diego TV station that aircraft is coming in from Wyoming and North Carolina to help fight the fires in San Diego.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Re: Malibu burning

Here's that AP story on the athletes, from LT to Trevor Hoffman to Tony Gwynn to Bruce Bochy, who are being affected by the fires.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AjHsT1ZTbop9IFENa13V_a45nYcB?slug=ap-chargers-wildfires&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

[Claws for Concern]

Re: Malibu burning

Just heard on a San Diego TV station that aircraft is coming in from Wyoming and North Carolina to help fight the fires in San Diego.

Heard it too. The aircraft is expected to be here by noon on Tuesday.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Re: Malibu burning

Reportedly more than 200,000 acres have or are burning in San Diego.

 

[buckweaver]

Re: Malibu burning

The Little Mountain fire has jumped the 215 freeway and is now burning ~1-5 miles away from the San Bernardino Sun offices. The Days Inn that is mentioned in the 4:44 p.m. blog entry is right across the street from the newsroom -- not even a mile away. Don't know if they'll have to evacuate yet, but it's getting too ****ing close.

http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/fire/

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Malibu burning

At least the fire is to the south of the Days Inn and the Sun building and the winds are coming from the north. But still, yeah, that's too close.

 

[friend of a friend]

Re: Malibu burning

Good luck, buck and others.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Re: Malibu and San Diego and other places are burning

San Diego Union-Tribune is all over the fire coverage down here.

www.signonsandiego.com/

 

[buckweaver]

Re: Malibu and San Diego and other places are burning

San Diego Union-Tribune is all over the fire coverage down here.

www.signonsandiego.com/

Boy, that's the real problem with all of this.

I went to bed last night thinking about the Malibu fire and how bad it got last night. (After driving home through the nasty winds in Chino, of course.) Then I wake up and it's all about San Diego and the 250K evacs down there. Then the fire in Ontario, and bigger ones in the San Berdoo mountains. Then more in Santa Clarita/Antelope. Now all the updates about the Little Mountain fire that's near the Sun offices.

****. The whole ****ing world is on fire out here.

 

[sportsnut]

Re: Malibu burning

I was up in Malibu last night and it looked amazing at night but sad for all the million dollar homes that are currently in danger of burning up.

I remember the fire I had to cover about 2 years ago now in Malibu and that one was not as bad as this one and the winds are just spreading the fire at a speed to quick for LAFD.

 

[Firstime Caller]

Re: Malibu burning

Boy, that's the real problem with all of this.

I went to bed last night thinking about the Malibu fire and how bad it got last night. (After driving home through the nasty winds in Chino, of course.) Then I wake up and it's all about San Diego and the 250K evacs down there. Then the fire in Ontario, and bigger ones in the San Berdoo mountains. Then more in Santa Clarita/Antelope. Now all the updates about the Little Mountain fire that's near the Sun offices.

****. The whole ****ing world is on fire out here.
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Yeah, that's the thing I'm sitting here trying to figure out. If I have to evacuate from my place in SD, where do I go? Seriously. Just another place in SD? Or do I get out of town. Because it looks like the fires are surrounding all the ways out of town right now except for I-5, and even that they said they were considering closing in North County - which would be the way out of town up to LA.

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Malibu burning

AP: LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A jet carrying as much as 12,000
gallons of fire retardant has taken to the air to battle wildfires
in this popular mountain vacation area east of Los Angeles.

 

[Angola!]

Re: Malibu burning

AP: LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A jet carrying as much as 12,000
gallons of fire retardant has taken to the air to battle wildfires
in this popular mountain vacation area east of Los Angeles.

I assume that is the DC-10 they keep talking about?

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Malibu burning

Yup, that's it.

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Malibu burning

Chargers moving practices to Arizona.

 

[buckweaver]

Re: Malibu burning

Yeah, that's the thing I'm sitting here trying to figure out. If I have to evacuate from my place in SD, where do I go? Seriously. Just another place in SD? Or do I get out of town. Because it looks like the fires are surrounding all the ways out of town right now except for I-5, and even that they said they were considering closing in North County - which would be the way out of town up to LA.

I would suggest taking I-8 East. Looks like there might be another fire near Portrero, but if you really had to get out, that might be the best solution.

 

[TigerVols]

Re: Malibu burning

KABC 7 reporting at least 15 tractor trailers have been blown over on the I-15 near Devore/Glen Helen Parkway.

 

[Cadet]

Re: Malibu burning

From the North (San Diego) County Times:

As of 5 p.m., county officials said, there are at least 50 destroyed homes in Poway, 70 homes in Escondido and 6 homes in Rancho Santa Fe. Official counts have not yet come in for the losses in Ramona, Rancho Bernardo or Fallbrook. In Fallbrook officials have said that multiple house had been destroyed, including many residences in the Valley Oaks mobile home park.

Makes me want to cry. I've lived in areas razed by wildfires, so I know that once the fires are out the real work begins of clearing remains, land erosion, etc.

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Malibu burning

Forecast says winds might continue all week.