Posted on 09/09/2020 10:30:07 AM PDT by BusterDog
I'm seeing rumors around the Intertubes that people out on the West Coast, Oregon specifically, believe that Antifa may be responsible for starting a lot of these fires. They say especially yesterday it seemed like many fires started popping up. Just fyi.
Let’s not forget that the Japanese used balloons to attempt setting wildfires on the west coast during WWII.
Would it be so surprising if the modern enemy of America started using the same tactics?
Thanks,
Mark
I don’t know how the fires are starting, but yesterday morning scared the everlovin’ bejeebers outta me. I went to bed with clear skies and clean air,and opened my bedroom door to HOLEY MOLEY IS MY HOUSE ON FIRE?!
A lot less smoke in the air today. If these fires are intentionally set, I hope they catch and severely punish those responsible.
Two locally, yesterday. One was a downed power line, haven’t heard on the other. There’s a firebug running around over that way , anyway. Probably a homeless assh*le setting trash cans and dumpsters on fire. One up north was arson....I thought another one south of here was related, but they caught the guy up north. I suspect more stupidity related, than Antifa, although it’s always surprised me that the muzzies didn’t try it.
We had a massive wind-storm in the northwest. It was like a Category 1 hurricane without rain for sustained wind speeds in many places. It was also from the northeast/east and that is not our usual path of wind.
A perfect storm in a typical dry summer here so almost all of the fires were caused by damage to the power lines.
I’ve been thinking this all along. An arsonist started the last two fires in our neck of the woods, and why wouldn’t domestic terrorists who hate America and want to sow chaos take this step?
Would not be surprised if they did but it doesn’t take much to get one going in windstorms like this.
Maybe maybe not but this is perfect wildfire conditions right now. Hot, low humidity and 50 mph winds.
Medford is experiencing 45 mph winds. I was told embers have been flying through the air. But yes, in Medford yesterday multiple fires started that seem too far away to be connected, even with embers flying... ??? The towns of Talent and Phoenix (not Phoenix, Arizona) are devastated, and Eagle Point and outlying areas are in a terrible state today.
I don’t know that they are responsible, but BOY! the conditions are ripe for them or other mentally unstable types, to do so.
recent reports also suggested that the Iranian doofazoids encouraged mass arson in the US. Some of that obama/kerry money they invested in iran’s nuclear weapons program coming back to the US?
This is probably impossible to prove or disprove.
However, how do the authorities have experts prove a house was burned down by a rival urban gang arsonist who started it in one particular accelerant evident area in one corner of a room and know that smoking heap fire began there? They do it, though.
Two years ago Michael Savage of San Francisco believed Muslim terrorists were setting oddly configured fires. Not where the winds blew, the other side. Three or four in isolated areas without a power line drop near them. However, apparently the fires were mostly caused by the electric company. Now they shut down power if the weather looks windy and hot.
But look who has lots of experience with setting Molotov Cocktails on fire and deliberatly setting other fires in buildings in cities? Antifa and BLM wings of the Dem Party.
One of the fires here was started by morons holding a “gender-reveal” party who shot off fireworks for their idiotic event. Hopefully they will be stuck with the entire bill for the damages.
“By Any Means Necessary” would include these fires!
If there are hot embers flying and big winds, then fires may start miles between each other. Just takes one hot ember landing in the right spot and getting blown on.
Lightening strikes AUgust 17 around the west coast
Some of these fires get very hot. When you see a very high
column of smoke, it’s sometimes where the fire has caused
it’s own weather cell.
Oxygen is sucked in at the bottom and rises carrying things
up to tens of thousands of feet. If some light burning
material is sucked up high, it can travel miles.
When we have wildfires here in Southern California we see
ashes travel for twenty-forty miles. Something burning
probably won’t carry that far, but there’s potential for
embers to travel quite a ways.
I laugh at the presentation at the top of this link, but
the information is pretty decent. His cautions get a
bit wild, but the issues and dynamics are presented.
It’s a decent page too.
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