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Multiple wildfires break out across LA...
Daily Mail UK ^ | 11 October 2019 | Mary Kekatos and Amelia Wynne

Posted on 10/11/2019 9:48:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin

FULL HEADLINE: Multiple wildfires break out across LA: Terrifying footage shows hundreds of firefighters battling to contain growing blazes in Southern California as one man is killed and 100,000 are forced to flee their homes

Saddleridge Brush Fire, broke out after 9pm on Thursday in Sylmar, north of Los Angeles, along the 210 Freeway near Yarnell Street and jumped the highway, according to KTLA.

Multiple freeways, including Interstate 5, Interstate 210, and Interstate 405 northbound were shut down at least partially, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Fire officials said the Saddleridge Fire consumed more than 4,700 acres by 8am on Friday with zero containment. Helicopters made repeated water drops as 1,000 firefighters on the ground attacked flames in and around homes, 25 of which have been damaged so far.

Authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations in the Granada Hills, Porter Ranch and Oakridge Estates neighborhoods affecting about 100,000 people on the northern edge of the city in the San Fernando Valley area.

According to Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas, the fire is burning at a rate of 800 acres per hour

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: calif; califwildfires; firebreaks; selfinflicted; underbrush; wildfires
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1 posted on 10/11/2019 9:48:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Are the fires purposely started so California can grab Federal funds?


2 posted on 10/11/2019 9:51:58 AM PDT by madison10
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Nightmarish. I hope they get these fires under control quickly.


3 posted on 10/11/2019 9:52:03 AM PDT by Cecily
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I’d prefer that nobody gets hurt, but sometimes you need to clear out all that underbrush, one way or another...


4 posted on 10/11/2019 9:52:29 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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I read last night on Fakebook that the Riverside Fire was started by someone burning trash. Can’t confirm it though.

Not a good idea with the Santa Ana Winds blowing at 40+ mph.


5 posted on 10/11/2019 9:54:19 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is why PG&E (did I get that acronym right?) cut all the power ahead of time. They didn’t want to get blamed when all the homeless camping in the hills leave dope out and let their embers fly into the wind.


6 posted on 10/11/2019 9:58:37 AM PDT by z3n
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Does this mean they are going to shut my electricity off again? Just got it back on yesterday.


7 posted on 10/11/2019 9:59:35 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Kickass Conservative

It was supposedly a trash truck fire


8 posted on 10/11/2019 10:01:12 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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This is So California


9 posted on 10/11/2019 10:01:40 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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10 posted on 10/11/2019 10:03:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Eight hundred acres per hour??? That’s downright hard to fathom.


11 posted on 10/11/2019 10:03:29 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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LA and Southern California losing power would be an immense health and social problem — and with no TV reporting to inform residents; no working traffic lights; no refrigerated food, either in homes or in stores; etc. etc.


12 posted on 10/11/2019 10:04:02 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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I’m thinking maybe Daily Mail maybe tacked on an extra zero, but this things do get quite large and widespread


13 posted on 10/11/2019 10:04:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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the fire is burning at a rate of 800 acres per hour

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Yep burning along at about 1.3 sq miles per hour.


14 posted on 10/11/2019 10:05:13 AM PDT by deport
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15 posted on 10/11/2019 10:05:24 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


16 posted on 10/11/2019 10:05:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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For some reason that map made me think of the "Downfall" movie with Berlin being encircled by Soviet troops. Hitler waves his hand and says "That's alright, Steiner will tell PG&E to cut off the power and the fires will stop."

"Mein Fuhrer …"
"Mein Fuhrer, PG&E has already cut off the power. The fires cannot be stopped."

17 posted on 10/11/2019 10:09:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Power was cut in Northern CA, this is Southern CA.


18 posted on 10/11/2019 10:11:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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You’re absolutely right. They got scr****.


19 posted on 10/11/2019 10:14:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Perhaps you should move to a state that maintains firebreaks. I thought that the painfully obvious lack of proper firebreaks was totally insane when I lived there fourty years ago. Except for a conference in San Jose in 2013 I haven’t been back.

That’s not just asking for it. That’s stomping your feet and walking up and down the street with a sign demanding fires.

When your fellow citizens are that insane the only sane option is to remove yourself from the insanity.


20 posted on 10/11/2019 10:18:05 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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