Posted on 11/15/2008 2:27:38 AM PST by bd476
Fire Forces Evacuations, Burns Homes in Sylmar Area
Sayre Fire is near the 210 Freeway in Northern Los Angeles.
A dangerous, fast-moving brush fire in the Sylmar section of the San Fernando Valley, spread by gusting 50 mph winds has now burned at least five homes and is threatening several more, City Fire Department spokesperson Melissa Kelly said today.
So far there are no reports of injuries to residents or fire personnel, said Kelly.
The blaze ignited about 10:30 p.m. in the dry, brushy hills above 13000 W. Sayre Street near Shablow Ave, and has so far consumed more than 500 acres.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxla.com ...
Showing a house now that is just catching on fire and it is picking up speed as the firefighters put it out, for now. So sad. Prayers! No serious injuries is the best news!
With 70 mile an hour gusts, it’s almost impossible.
Good Morning from Eagle Rock. WOW... now I hear a new fire in Chino?
Just been watching live feed about Sylmar. Daughter was evacuated two days ago from her home in Montecito!! Winds were bad this morning here in ER but are calm now.
We live up against the foothills in Eagle Rock and always feel apprehensive when it gets real windy.
Polly
If we lived in a sane society environmentalist that created this problem should be in prison tonight.
Hurricane force winds!
You’ll be happy to know that the fire has moved deeper into the City of L.A. and that more homes are burning.
Is it news now?
Heya, thank you for the ping and the new thread. Busy morning — be back around lunch time.
new fires in Orange county??
Red flag warning now extended into tomorrow at least
new fires in Orange county??
Red flag warning now extended into tomorrow at least
Reporting Zero percent containment at this hour.
you mean homes other then the “mobile homes”?
The firefighters are heroes.
Coreno..new fire..evacuations
Amen to that.
You’ve obviously never seen a California fire. If you knew people (as I do) who lost homes in recent fires you would stifle your snide, provincial remarks. California doesn’t get rain 6 months per year. On the fringes of cities near mountains, the brush & trees are tinder dry by the end of hot summers. Fire here IS A BIG DEAL.
As much as I despise California’s socialists, I empathasize with the people who have to leave their house on short notice with the only the shirt on their back.
People I know just lost their homes yesterday when over 100 homes burned in a firestorm in the Santa Barbara fire.
a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States
That’s not “just” a major substation.
That’s the southern terminus of the 500kVDC Pacific DC Intertie. That’s the line that brings down huge amounts of power from the hydro damns in the Pacific Northwest on the Columbia River HUGE amounts of power.
If that power is interrupted... heh. You’re going to see more than just rolling blackouts. At full capacity, the DC intertie is transmitting about 3,100 MW.
live presser..
fire still out of control
winds did not die down as expected
most of the 500+ homes that development have burnt
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