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
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Like fires have never happened before?
http://www.authorama.com/two-years-before-the-mast-12.html
In the middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low, flat plain.......
The only thing which diminishes its beauty is, that the hills have no large trees upon them, they having been all burnt by a great fire which swept them off about a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again. The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrible and magnificent sight. The air of the whole valley was so heated that the people were obliged to leave the town and take up their quarters for several days upon the beach.
Good for you.
Probably some people cooking over open fires since their power was cut.
no. nobody purposely starts the fires. we get really dry winds in October, typically. Any spark can set something off on all the dry grass because we don’t get rain, generally from May through October, except some high mountain areas get summer thunderstorms.
One of yesterday’s fires was started from a trash truck which caught fire. The driver dropped the load by the side of the road, and the wind carried embers over to the nearby dead grass. Or at least that’s what last night’s news said.
And our power is still out. Expected to be back on by October 13th at 11 pm. My wife couldn’t start the generator yesterday. So...no fridge...of course no well water. Although we do have a hand pump. Have rotary phone so I can call her...as she can’t charge cell phone. Pioneer living at its best...jeez. I am down here in Fresno working...can’t return until after Columbus Day...
Figuring out what to do for next year...this will be a monthly occurance. Already happened four times this year in Butte County. Most of the time we were gone from the area.
Cost benefit analysis. Invest in newer, higher rated generator to run the well and other household appliances...but then a lot of fuel needs to be kept on hand. Run generator during daylight hours..can do that...still about six gallons a whack...for five days, thats 30 gallons of fuel that needs to be kept on hand.
Could go propane for the generator...still—that uses mucho to, as propane is lower BTU...Solar? No...where to put all the batteries...and they have to be monitored through the summer when I am not there...
Will have to figure this one out. Of course it takes money I don’t really have...
I hate when that happens.
CA Politics is turning into a Dumpster Fire.
Hey, that’s odd. Wildfires in California. I thought California had eradicated those pesky wildfires years ago by thinning small trees and clearing brush. Must have been set by angry Trump voters.
I thought high taxes and solar power were going to eliminate wildfires?
The federal government has apparrently stop giving out funds. Ocracoke Island, which was hit by Hurricane Dorian, just got rejected for FEMA funds even though half thw residents are out of there homes as a result of the flooding.
One trash fire started forest fires in 5 geographically separate areas?
Pyros love the Santa Ana winds.
Sounds like the Dresden fire bombing without the loss of lives.
Evacuation zones. The fire is located at the northern edge of the city of Los Angeles.
Just before dawn at the western end of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Phos Chek fire retardant drop.
The worst I ever had it here in VA was an ice storm that took out the power for 2 weeks.
Luckily the wood stove and one kerosene heater were able to keep the house warm enough.
Had to carry buckets of water from the lake to flush the toilets.
Something I noticed on the houses that have the fences facing the downward slopes. The fires looked exceptionally intense there. I was wondering how many of these home owners have been throwing yard waste over the back fences. The old argument that it is biodegradable is true however it is also highly combustible. Just seemed a bit odd to me and I have seen that before fighting fire in NoCal as a volunteer back when I was younger. I see zero land mitigation or control in these shots.
I hope none get injured in all this but it should be a valuable lesson.
Trump suggested manually clearing out that underbrush, and the Left ridiculed him.
Would be good to ask those affected whether they’d think “manual clearing” would be a good idea now.
At least North Korea has hope for the future.
Juxtapose that with the blackout area map.
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