Forest Fire Close to me

[metta]

The fire near me, the Morris Fire, is doing better than the other two. The one in Ranch Palos Verdes has lost some homes. http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_13221098

Firefighters either hiked up breakneck slopes or were dropped in by air, while 18 planes and helicopters continued dropping water and retardant on hot spots.
Dewey Rebbe, 47, sat perched on a ridge overlooking the San Gabriel Dam from the east Thursday afternoon, watching his crew of 20 firefighters carve out 6-foot-wide breaklines in thick brush.
"It's like cutting through a jungle" at nearly 2,600 feet elevation, Rebbe said. "It's very nasty stuff."

Luckily for the firefighters, some of the eastern side of terrain holds younger vegetation, still recovering from three devastating fires seven years ago, said Nathan Judy, a U.S. Fire Service spokesman.
"It's not going to stop it," he said. "But it slows the fire."

The younger vegetation is from the Williams Fire and Curve Fire in 2002 that is inbetween the current Morris Fire and me.

The Staion Fire near La Canada looks really bad right now.

http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_13223401


Oh wow....I did not realize that Garawr moved:

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274889

I think that he still has family there though.

 

[metta]

Here is the information on the station fire:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1856/

I was on the 210 freeway about 2 hours ago and it looked horrible over there. The fire looks very close to homes.

The Morris fire (near me) is 60% contained.
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1852/

 

[Txgoodoldboy]

Thanks for the update. Take care.

 

[metta]

The Morris fire, the one near me is not 95% contained. The Station fire, Garawr has family only 1 mile from it and that one is out of control and has grown to over 20,000 acres so far.

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1856/

 

[CudDULL]

For some reason I thought this thread title was Fire Crotch close to me

 

[metta]

The Station fire almost doubled in size last night to over 85,000 acres (71 square miles). The smoke from that fire is now very thick where I live from the Station Fire, which is not close to me.

 

[star-warrior]

If there's anything to learn about the Australian fires earlier this year, its, get out as soon as you can, and don't delay.

Stay safe Metta

 

[The Warmth]

The really begs the question, what is the point of buying California real estate if it's going to be in constant danger of getting burned to the ground or getting pummelled by the next big earthquake (the "big one")? You'd think between all of this and its ailing economy, real estate prices would be lower than they are right now. I realized they've gone down in price but you still need at least 400K to get a niceish place in LA. That's bonkers.

 

[metta]

The really begs the question, what is the point of buying California real estate if it's going to be in constant danger of getting burned to the ground or getting pummelled by the next big earthquake (the "big one")? You'd think between all of this and its ailing economy, real estate prices would be lower than they are right now. I realized they've gone down in price but you still need at least 400K to get a niceish place in LA. That's bonkers.

And you live in Arizona, a place that depends on a quickly drying up Colorado river.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/colorado-river-47021303

I realize that I live in a risky area....but I'm ok with that. The fire near me is pretty much out. We are getting the smoke from the Station fire which is pretty far away from me.

Station Fire biggest in county history since 1897


Posted: 08/31/2009 02:22:18 PM PDT




At 105,000 acres, the Station Fire now appears to be the biggest fire in Los Angeles County's history since 1897, according to a county fire department historian.
Dave Boucher, a retired firefighter who serves as the historian for the fire department and a local fire history museum, said the 1897 fire burned down huge swaths of the Angeles National Forest.
"In 1897 it burned over the whole forest," said Boucher. He said he was not sure how big the acreage of the 1897 fire, and the Station Fire could actually be bigger.
Other notable fires have included the 1970 Clampitt fire, which also burned about 105,000 acres, from Agoura Hills to Newhall. That fire was actually two separate fires that converged, said Boucher, rather than a single fire.
The Station Fire also ranks among the top 20 in size in state history, according to state government records, around 15th in size. It could still get a lot bigger, said Boucher.
"By the end it could be 125,000 to 150,000 acres," said Boucher.
At 150,000, it would move in to the top 10 in state history. Bigger local fires of note in the last few years have included the Witch fire in October of 2007 in San Diego County, which consumed 197,990 acres. The biggest recorded in state history, according to state records, is the Cedar fire in San Diego County, which burned 273,246 acres in October of 2003.

http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_13240374

 

[Alpha1851]

I've bookmarked those websites so I can stay updated. Stay safe Metta! I'm thinking about you!

 

[metta]

That's not the half of it - consider also the crime in LA area plus large unemployment now (ok it will improve but that's a faint hope)....sure it has great beaches but they are usually very crowded, dirty, and with aggressive people ..the southland is just a garbage pit and right now it's a fire pit too....oh did I mention the bumper to bumper traffic and terrible (still) public transportation. They need a high speed rail link like crazy but there are no funds cause the state is broke...
I think if you have to live anywhere near there live on the central coast up by SLO or Santa Maria...much nicer and the air quality is usually ok unlike LA which has still some of the worst air on earth...
Oh and that's not even to mention the dubious gay life - lots of self-centered plastic people who don't give a crap about anything except looking beautiful or chasing the next hookup and other such shallow pursuits...not all ok but plenty...

Gosh I'm almost tempted to say...oh what the heck...


FAIL

There is more in California than stereotypes.

 

[metta]

I have family that has been through a couple of evacuations due to forest fires in the N.J. Pine Barrens.It was a very stressful time.

Best wishes metta.....

If there's anything to learn about the Australian fires earlier this year, its, get out as soon as you can, and don't delay.

Stay safe Metta

I've bookmarked those websites so I can stay updated. Stay safe Metta! I'm thinking about you!

Thank you all!

I'm fine. So is dkonfrost. We are just trying to stay out of the smoke as much as possible.

 

[Alpha1851]

Gosh I'm almost tempted to say...oh what the heck...

FAIL

Can you hold that "fail" until the man's life and property are no longer in danger? Good grief!

 

[metta]

The smoke and ash has been worse form the Station Fire (which is several miles away) than the Morris fire was (which was about 1 mile from me). There is ash everywhere. The cars are covered in it and the fire near us has been pretty much put out for over a day now.

 

[Yooper]

FYI, the smoke has now reached the Eastern Slope of the Rockies.

Visibility due to smoke was down to 1/4 mile Downtown Denver today.

 

[mattypants]

Well ok hold the fail but the point is these fires pop up every year even multiple times per year and people still insist in having houses up there. I mean look at Benedict Canyon...it's ridiculous...and yeah I lived not far from there years ago. Even then it was ridiculous all the crap you had to put up with (see last post). The quality of life isn't there in LA and hasn't been since maybe 1970...it's just a disaster!

thats because in california, fire season is all year long

 

[Yooper]

Pictures from today in Colorado (1000 miles away!):

The smoke over Colorado — which has made the mountains west of Denver invisible from downtown Denver — has come directly from the massive 85,000-acre wildfire in Southern California, according to the National Weather Service.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13240245

 

[metta]

Wow....I had no idea the smoke went any where near that far. Thanks for the info.

 

[metta]

Well ok hold the fail but the point is these fires pop up every year even multiple times per year and people still insist in having houses up there. I mean look at Benedict Canyon...it's ridiculous...and yeah I lived not far from there years ago. Even then it was ridiculous all the crap you had to put up with (see last post). The quality of life isn't there in LA and hasn't been since maybe 1970...it's just a disaster!

Again with the sterotypes. I don't have the problems that you mention. I work out of my home so I don't normally have to deal with a lot of traffic. The quality of my life is no where near a disaster. Personally, living close to my mom is important to me. I enjoy canyon living against the forest. Disasters can happen anywhere. Where in the US is there an area where there is not a potential disaster? I really do not think that exists.

I bet you that the neighborhood I live in has a much more closely knit community than the one you live in.

I'm glad that you enjoy where you live but I don't see why you feel it is necessary to lump everyone in LA together like that.

 

[Yooper]

Wow....I had no idea the smoke went any where near that far. Thanks for the info.

No Problem.

I spent some time looking around on the web, and found the particulates (soot mostly) in the air are worse in Western Colorado (Rifle, outside of Grand Junction) than Downtown LA and the National Weather Service blames it on the LA fires.

The forecast high temperature in Nebraska and Kansas got lowered for tomorrow by 3-5 degrees just because the smoke will keep the temperature down.

You folks got one heck of a weenie roast going on out there (please don't be offended, just trying to put a in the day. Probably insensitive of me).

Please all be safe and heed evacuation orders should they come (I know there are a bunch of lurkers out there reading this).