Posted on 10/21/2007 9:48:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thank you, maggief, and all who pray...
FR back up...several homes on fire now
Good to see you, Merry. :) It’s great to hear that you’re getting some good weather in PA. I bet the leaves are beautiful now. Hope you and your family are well.
Thanks for the rain wish. We had some sudden rain a week or two ago, which was a surprise, but it left too quickly.
**6:20 PM PST KNX just said there is a fire close to and threatening Canyon High School with no firefighters around.
Reports of a fire in Orange County now.
Winds will double in speed from 20-40 mph in next few hours. Humidity is around 10%.
Free Republic is down so I’m just writing notes until it’s back up.
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Looks like we’re up and running again! Woohooo!
San Diego fire updates:
News crews standing out there with sandbags on their feet b/c it’s so windy out in the fire areas
In one hour the fire doubled in size (4000 acres at 4 pm; 8000 acres at 5 pm) currently estimating (at 6 pm) 8K-10K acres now burnt in the Witch Creek/Ramona/Santa Ysabel fire area but NO homes lost so far. The fire was first actually spotted by crews taking off to drop water on the Potrero fire, and no drops have been done since those very early drops when it was first spotted because of the winds not allowing for safe/accurate/effective drops to occur.
5000 acres (as of 6:30) in the 94/Harris/Potrero fire, but new structures expected to be lost in the Barrett Junction area, and multiple homes and other structures already lost
Where in OC?
Thanks
We're watching one of the L.A. stations (by the way, I "backdoored" into this thread, so this may be old news), and - having lived there from 1985 thru 2005 I'm amazed at the incompetency of the newsies..."ALL of Canyon Country under mandatory evacuation! ALL 800 people must leave now!!"
I don't know where you are, or when you lived there, but Whites Canyon, from the intersection of Soledad, got extended over to Bouquet Canyon about 8 years ago...being as this was a new road cut, some homes started getting built up there - we're assuming these are the "800 people" being told to get out....if ALL of Canyon Country was being evacuated (some 20,000+ people), it'd be world news and we wouldn't be watching Boston kick Cleveland's ass on TV....)
Great captures, as usual.
Thanks.
I heard a new one is in Orange, near Santiago Canyon Rd- somewhere near a lake?
According to the UT, the WitchCreek fire is burning in areas that were untouched by the 2003 Cedar fire.
Per KABC TV 7: One of the fastest moving fires in at least 20 years...paraphrasing
freeway becoming packed
On the flipside, both he and Mom (she's 86) suffer(ed) dementia issues; now that God has been merciful and taken him from his misery, Mom is improved with the attention she'd been missing due to the ongoing "Dad crises".
He's in a better place, and her latter days here are better also.
Five homes down so far.
Plenty of FF aircraft available....can’t fly due to wind and poor visibility. Smoke all the way to the coast (it is visible to the west of us—there was a beautiful sunset, FWIW). (Ch 7/KNBC NBC news break into NFL football).
New fire, Orange County, 20 acres -- Santiago Canyon -- City of Orange (channel 9)
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