Posted on 08/30/2009 4:42:09 PM PDT by sissyjane
Major fire burning homes and commercial buildings in Auburn, CA.
what irony
KCRA is showing live coverage. Multiple homes on fire, and wildfire spotting ahead of main fire. Also commercial buildings burning. Highway 49 closed.
Telling people to do whatever they can to get away from the fire.
I attended high school in Grass Valley, which is about a 1/2 hour drive away along hwy 49. I know that area well, although I haven’t lived there in more than 30 years. I still have friends who live near there, whom I visit from time to time. I don’t think any of them are immediately threatened by this particular fire at the moment...
Strong winds blowing the fire and spotting ahead.
Calfire says the fire is in multiple subdivisions. Extreme fire behavior. KCRA showing multiple homes that are totally gone.
One of the comedians this last weekend got it right:
To make up for the deficit in California, we have decided to torch the place for the insurance money.
“....you light a match.” - Goodfellas
Bad!!!!
Very dense woodlands, loaded with houses, no clear zones around the houses.
My wife’s cousin lives just northwest of the fire, just off Maranatha, in a subdivision that has almost no water! Everyone is on wells, and the wells are almost dry this time of year.
Maybe she should leave? It’s really bad.
That is beyond the bounds of decent humor FD!
Only a Dem could call that funny.
You have never heard of gallows humor?
The Gallows would be a good place for him!
They just ordered the 747 tanker.
Be careful! Major Fires are going on through-out California all the way up to Oregon....
HOT everywhere.....
GOD Bless you all in the line of fire!
I was thru Auburn and surrounds here a few weeks ago and remember thinking to myself that the area was rich with fuel and hope there was no spark. I guess there has been now.
“”Telling people to do whatever they can to get away from the fire.””
I just called our daughter in Auburn and her dad is talking to her now. She can’t get good TV reception since the conversion box went into effect so she can’t even get a station from Sacramento to keep informed. She’s out in the boonies so the recepetion is really bad. Her daughter is in town with a friend and she called home - her friend’s home has been destroyed.
Sure hope it gets under control but it’s pretty dry there, I understand. I told her we’d send some water her way from GA - more than our share here.
We’ve been eating smoke from the Yosemite fire all weekend, and dealing with the results of the Knight fire: Bears everywhere! Wore a ‘hog leg’ with a .357 for the last few days. Bear tracks all over the neighborhood, and we could smell the bear in one corner of the property. Cattle are behaving very strange, moving around way more than usual.
California is *BONE DRY* so many places are looking like Death Valley because so much brush has already burned...
Yet we still have so much dry fuel for these fires.....
THey say california might experience this Hurricaine heading to Baja which is a Cat 4 right now, we could sure use the rain...
Another unintended consequence of our government mandating digital television.
Just saw the C 130 tanker drop (CBS 13). We’re in Rockin watching, seeing smoke.
Where do you live? I’m in Twain Harte. We had smoke all week as well, but no bears.(that I know of)
The conversion happend so fast it caught everyone by surprise. </sarc>
Wait a few days! We’re about 10 miles as the crow flieth, north of you.
Near the Knight fire? Wait for what? The bears? Seriously?
I hope the best for you. If I could, I’d let you move your cows here...I got 70 acres of waist tall grass fenced and one horse.
The fire displaced all the wildlife from the middle fork gorge. They have to go somewhere! These are not animals that are very used to human contact either. The gorge is/was quite wild.
You can keep your bears...and I’ll keep my deer.
Our bears would love to meet your deer!
Probably your cows too!
Do you live near that new log cabin on Middle Camp near South Fork?
They have about 20 deer that seem to live in their front yard!
I live about a mile down the hill. We have just as many.
Approximately 30 homes destroyed and many commercial buildings as well.
I’ll give the bears your GPS coordinates! :o)
You are kidding! We have friends in Grass Valley near there, too. Too far for a fire, but still. And here they are evacuating Mt. Wilson, 5 miles up the forest/ front of the range from our home.
No thanks!
Have you noticed how many of the fires fall in the “depopulation zone” on the Agenda 21 maps?
No, not kidding.
I don’t know what you are talking about. Sorry.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/rewilding/
http://prfamerica.org/positions/GloryOfEnvironmentalism.html
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-science-adviser-advocated-de-development-of-the-united-states/
http://www.vlrc.org/articles/21.html
What special interest group paid off the corrupted DC pols to get this edict passed? Founders would be aghast at what this Govt has become.
Not to mention how we used to have controlled burns to do away with the underbrush until the environmentalist took over.
We had a controlled burn last week that escaped. As far as I know it’s still burning.
BTW- The fire in Auburn is 40 percent contained now.
Last air water drop for the day. Let’s hope the wind doesn’t come back up!
Auburn fire possibly arson. Just announced on the news.
Thanks for the good news that they are containing the fire! When we lived in SoCal in the 80’s, the underbrush was so bad that a single match would set off a major fire.
When we moved in our new home, we had sage brush covering the backyard. The guy we had clear it set a match to this huge pile and it was ash in a short time. He wanted us to see how fast it would burn — made a lasting impression. We have half an acre and planted grass with a sprinkler system. Several times we had embers blow down from fires in the mountains behind us but we had a tile roof and grass so we were okay. One time it did burn the backyard of one of the new homes that had not been sold and about half the fence before the fire department got there. I didn’t mind paying the weter bill to have the grass.
Day the movers were packing the truck for the move across there were fires burning and ash was going everywhere like rain on our house and sidewalk.
It is something I will never forget. Those blazes were started intentionally by someone. The fires all sprang up in three different locations on the mountain. Then I am driving to HEB and when I pulled in the parking lot, I saw a fire burst out in the Crafton Hills which unnerved me more that day getting ready to move.
Such a beautiful area and makes you sad to see it on fire.
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