Posted on 08/30/2009 4:42:09 PM PDT by sissyjane
Major fire burning homes and commercial buildings in Auburn, CA.
what irony
KCRA is showing live coverage. Multiple homes on fire, and wildfire spotting ahead of main fire. Also commercial buildings burning. Highway 49 closed.
Telling people to do whatever they can to get away from the fire.
I attended high school in Grass Valley, which is about a 1/2 hour drive away along hwy 49. I know that area well, although I haven’t lived there in more than 30 years. I still have friends who live near there, whom I visit from time to time. I don’t think any of them are immediately threatened by this particular fire at the moment...
Strong winds blowing the fire and spotting ahead.
Calfire says the fire is in multiple subdivisions. Extreme fire behavior. KCRA showing multiple homes that are totally gone.
One of the comedians this last weekend got it right:
To make up for the deficit in California, we have decided to torch the place for the insurance money.
“....you light a match.” - Goodfellas
Bad!!!!
Very dense woodlands, loaded with houses, no clear zones around the houses.
My wife’s cousin lives just northwest of the fire, just off Maranatha, in a subdivision that has almost no water! Everyone is on wells, and the wells are almost dry this time of year.
Maybe she should leave? It’s really bad.
That is beyond the bounds of decent humor FD!
Only a Dem could call that funny.
You have never heard of gallows humor?
The Gallows would be a good place for him!
They just ordered the 747 tanker.
Be careful! Major Fires are going on through-out California all the way up to Oregon....
HOT everywhere.....
GOD Bless you all in the line of fire!
I was thru Auburn and surrounds here a few weeks ago and remember thinking to myself that the area was rich with fuel and hope there was no spark. I guess there has been now.
“”Telling people to do whatever they can to get away from the fire.””
I just called our daughter in Auburn and her dad is talking to her now. She can’t get good TV reception since the conversion box went into effect so she can’t even get a station from Sacramento to keep informed. She’s out in the boonies so the recepetion is really bad. Her daughter is in town with a friend and she called home - her friend’s home has been destroyed.
Sure hope it gets under control but it’s pretty dry there, I understand. I told her we’d send some water her way from GA - more than our share here.
We’ve been eating smoke from the Yosemite fire all weekend, and dealing with the results of the Knight fire: Bears everywhere! Wore a ‘hog leg’ with a .357 for the last few days. Bear tracks all over the neighborhood, and we could smell the bear in one corner of the property. Cattle are behaving very strange, moving around way more than usual.
California is *BONE DRY* so many places are looking like Death Valley because so much brush has already burned...
Yet we still have so much dry fuel for these fires.....
THey say california might experience this Hurricaine heading to Baja which is a Cat 4 right now, we could sure use the rain...
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