Posted on 09/25/2017 9:21:23 PM PDT by Pelham
pictures, news, videos, maps of the large brushfire in the Santa Ana Canyon connecting OC with Riverside
https://twitter.com/hashtag/CanyonFire?src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A912450377546579968
bring some marshmallows
Whats the wind like right now? Tell me its not Santa Ana wind conditions.
Lot’s of home being evacuated. The Santa Ana canyon is known to be windy and that will not help things at all.
that was back when we attacked fires, since then fire suppression has been taken over by an evironmentalist idiocracy with "let it Burn" policies and other idiotic theories like underfunding initial attack assets.
Stay safe.
CHP traffic page lists it, but offers no details.
10 lanes of the Riverside Fwy. Wow. Massive. KFI is talking about the current Corona fire. Ten planes and ten copters tomorrow morning.
Yep. Gots to make sure they get plenty of funding next year so don’t dare put it out early.
There’s not any wind to speak of. We can have a Santa Ana condition without a wind... hot and very low humidity. It was nearly 90 today.
I’m at the western end of the canyon... a couple of friends of mine are in Corona.. one can see flames from her house, another is even closer, spraying the eaves of his house right now.
Prayers.
We had a big fire in the same general area back in 2008... called the ‘Freeway Complex Fire’
Actually it was two that linked up. Burned over 300 homes. So far this one hasn’t burned any houses, but it’s zero percent controlled so there’s no telling what it’s going to do.
Yeah they had that big converted airliner dropping retardant today. I think they have some night capable plane out there tonight.
My Corona pal just told me that the wind is shifting back towards OC. So far we haven’t gotten even a whiff of smoke.
In the 2008 fire the plume was hundreds, maybe a thousand feet high. We had all sorts of ash raining down on us and a few embers but nothing caught. So far nothing like that from this one. Knock on wood.
Winds are calm now but think kicking up tomorrow
Can see the plume of smoke from miles away
Clarify that winds are calm where I am (North Orange County) but according to that Twitter feed, windy in that canyon & shifting east. Who knows what it will do now..yikes!
know the area well
plenty of fuel from the big rains this past season. last few weeks have been scorching dry.
all depends on the wind tomorrow accelerating through the neck at green river.
I know plenty of people living in those hills in Corona - prayers for them and their families
Grew up in those hills back when Nohl Ranch Road ended at Royal Oak & we had wildland right down to the east end of our court, which had all of seven homes on it.
Few tile roofs; mostly wood shake. One of the neighbors went so far as to install sprinklers of his rooftop with a manual valve on the side of his garage. Actually had occasion to use them a time or three.
When things weren’t on fire on our side of the canyon, we could watch the occasional fires across in the San Gabriel mountains. I remember ashfall at our house during the massive Bel Air fire.
I lived with yearly SoCal bush fires for half a century. Kudos and prayers for the people who live in the hot spots. I understand how devastating it can be.
We could probably have roasted the marshmallows from our old back yard, which had the views to the northeast, dozens of hill and mountain ranges. I hope communities stay safe. Prayers up for the whole area.
As a native SoCaler, I agree with the "let it burn" policy. It's what nature has done there for tens of thousands of years.
Suppressing nature's natural cleaning agent (fire) only increases the available combitible fuel stocks.
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