[BlueStateBlues]

Yikes.

[kellynla]

Los Angeles area fire map: La Cañada Flintridge, Altadena, Glendale, La Crescenta, Pasadena, Acton
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-fire-map-html,0,7464337.htmlstory

[rellimpank]

—relax, folks—Gaia is just getting it prepared for mudslides when the rains come-—

[bvw]

Arnold’s “Go green!” attitude comes in reality to mean “Burn baby burn!”, for the “environmental” forest management policies leave humans exposed to more risk of harm. Humans first, Arnold.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Here we go again.

Fire scorching homes built where they never should have been built in the first place. The CA ecosystem has been based on periodic brush clearing by fire for thousands of years. Man has interrupted that cycle, and now they are paying for it. I read that there had not been a fire in this area for nearly 50 years and that the underbrush had not been cleared in that time.

If you want to avoid this in the future, they need to implement strict building codes:

Brush clearing — nobody should be allowed to let their property be overgrown.

Fire retardent roofs — cement tile, metal, etc. Rigorously enforce this. Remove all wood shingle roofs.

Build multiple access roads — more than one way out of all areas.

Reduce crowding — tear down buildings too close to their neighbors’. Increase lot sizes.

Fire breaks between subdivisions must be kept cleared — open space with no vegetation.

Reservoirs for water storage.

I know that sounds harsh, and implementation will mean that many people currently living in these areas will have to move; but it must be done, or we will see this pattern repeated.

In the mean time, I feel terrible for those who are losing their houses, pets, and perhaps their lives.

[SIDENET]

Fire Roars in Three Directions

Up, down...and sideways.

[Spktyr]

Hm... I seem to remember something from some text... something about a promise of “The fire next time.”

[bgill]

Get your wallets out, folks!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

All of you who are anywhere near this monster:

Be careful and stay safe. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

[RichInOC]

It might help if he came out and worked on the evacuations himself:

“Come with me if you want to live.”

[Delta 21]

File photo

[truthguy]

Didn’t we just get this story last year or was it earlier this year. Honestly I’m sick of hearing about California Fires. It’s not a news story anymore. It would be a story if we didn’t have fires. Most but not all of these destructive fires are as a result of stupidity. That’s the stupidity of poor forest management, poor planning, environmentalist run amok etc.

[meyer]

“Get to da Choppah...”

[Sarajevo]

You all in the area of the fire be careful and consider leaving the area. Property is not worth your life.

[Ditter]

I am so glad I don't live in an area that has forest fires. We were in Montana in the summer a couple of years ago and the smell of smoke was awful and there was no getting away from it. California mud slides would be bad too as would earth quakes. I live in hurricane country but we don't have one hit us every year and when they do I am not in the surge zone. I'll take hurricanes over forest fires, earth quakes and mudslides any day.