Posted on 10/21/2007 9:48:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
UPDATE: The city of Malibu is advising residents in Puerco Canyon to begin evacuating due to a wildfire driven by powerful winds. This area is north of Pacific Coast Highway and about 1 mile west of Pepperdine University. Residents along the beach on Malibu Road may soon be evacuated. Pacific Coast Highway is closed between Kanan-Dume Road and Topanga Canyon. Residents are advised to head to the west. Evacuation centers are being set up in the Zuma Beach area.
A wildfire driven by powerful winds in the Malibu Hills this morning threatened a university, destroyed at least one home and forced the evacuation of hundreds more, authorities said.
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Yes...I know someone who owns a second home there.
Wonder how much their globalist pockets are being lined?
But we can save that for another day.
My cousin lives in the fire area (near Rancho Bernardo...just south of there) and was evacuated....I don’t know if she and her family have been allowed back in yet. I think they’re calling where she lives safe now....from the map, it looks like the Witch Fire (I think that’s the one that’s near her home) came within a few miles.
“””Do people have more than two cars just sitting around?””
Yes;)
Oh boy, that’s a relief!
That’s such a pretty area too.
And it always looked so lush and green to me, bwdik.
Glenn Beck saying the same as Rush.
If I remember correctly when I was a homeowner in Cali twenty years ago it was almost going to be made mandatory for homeowners to clear so many feet away from there home.
Our local fire district has volentary guidelines here on the Oregon Coast but they don’t enforce them as law.
Capt at the time told me just think if there was a fire we will save the homes with the least amount of growth around them.
IOW they have to chose the most likely to not burn down and those homeowners who have forrest up to the door are going to burn first anyway.
CA has had a drought for ~ 1 1/2 years....all pretty brown now. When I was out there in Aug, they were talking about the droughts....not just within the family, but also on the radio and the news, re reminding people to voluntarily ration their own water usage...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (C), kisses a baby while touring Qualcomm Stadium the site of the largest evacuation center in San Diego County for evacuees of the wildfires with Michael Chertoff (R) Secretary of Homeland Security in San Diego, California October 23, 2007. Towering wildfires burned out of control across Southern California for a third day on Tuesday as 500,000 people fled the San Diego area, and firefighters made a desperate stand to save a mountain town ringed by flames. REUTERS/Howard Lipin/Pool (UNITED STATES)
1000 Pines is just west of the Golf Course at Grass Valley where the fire started and looks like it is in the burn part of the maps I’ve seen. I haven’t heard much scanner traffic from this area and others have noted this too.
The are north of there (Miller Canyon) needs to burn as it has a heavy fuel load and no homes back there. No fires there since I moved here 1980.
Thanks for the map.
Sure helps those of us not familiar with the area.
Eek, from here the moon is Orange.....
And, when planes go over, I can see the beams from their headlights.
it s orange here in orange county
Pool Boy is going to be cranky for awhile.
kissing a baby and hoogling the kids snack bar
It is beautiful, with an orange glow to it. Not sure if that will show up on the digital pics I took.
OH.
Thousand Pines is where I went to camp as a kiddo..
20/20 has a special on the fires starting right now!
For anyone interested!
who this one ?MNJohnnie
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Plumes of smoke from wildfires are seen above the Lake Arrowhead, Calif. area. More than a dozen wildfires blowing across Southern California since Sunday have injured more than 45 people, including 21 firefighters and forced the evacuation of more than 350,000 houses. (AP Photo/Pool, Jim Wilson)
This poor gal reporting on CBS2 is starting to stutter she’s so tired. I think it’s Michelle Gile. Reporters are going non-stop, must be exhausted.
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