Posted on 10/15/2017 3:40:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
NOTICE: If you hate California and have nothing good to say, move on. You are NOT wanted on this thread. Get lost.
If you have a heart, please watch the video of the Berkeley Engine 6 firefighting team helping out in Santa Rosa. This is heart-wrenching. There are links to contribute to those who have lost everything.
A group of Berkeley firefighters was called out to help fight the Tubbs Fire early Monday morning. They thought it was a "large grass fire," but arrived in Santa Rosa to find hundreds of homes and businesses burned. This video was taken and produced by a Berkeley firefighter.
Berkeley Fire Department received the call for help early Monday morning. They sent an engine north to Santa Rosa to help with what they thought was a "large grass fire." When the strike team, made up of both Berkeley and San Francisco firefighters, arrived in Santa Rosa before sunrise, they were stunned to see the scope of the already massive Tubbs Fire.
A video shot and edited by a Berkeley firefighter (above) shows the crew's reaction when they realized just how large the destructive fire had grown overnight. As the engine headed toward the Santa Rosa Kmart store where they were told to assemble, the firefighters could see flames in the hills. "Wow, those are coming out of the structures," one firefighter says. "Oh my god." A few seconds later, someone says, "It's starting to smell like houses burning."
The Tubbs Fire destroyed more than 2,800 homes, 400,000 square feet of commercial space, and took the lives of at least 19 people.
The fire was 60 percent contained Sunday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
You are welcome. Majority here are not closed-minded haters—I just cannot imagine what people in wine country are enduring!!!
Anyway, we are POSTING ON A FORUM WHOSE FOUNDER, OWNER, THEIR FAMILY, AND THE SERVERS ARE LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA...You would think the haters would know better?!?!
But since we live in a democratic republic, people are allowed to express their opinions—no matter how bitter and small minded they may appear ;(
Again, thank you for posting...It is important that we people who are not there are helped to understand what is going on there.
Thoughts and prayers for California wine country!
Prayers for your husband’s safety.
Thank you. I always worry when he’s fighting fires, but this is worse to me than a regular wildland fire. Thankfully the weather has not been so bad and hopefully the rain will knock fires down enough so that his engine will be demobed.
Firefighting is dangerous also because they breathe a lot of smoke and that catches up with their lungs and hearts after years. Structure fires are worse because of all the chemicals and toxic materials burning.
Thanks! It also might be worth saying that the vast majority of ultra left in CA were not born here. They are from other states or South America. CA is like fly paper to liberals running away from conservative states.
Yes and yes.
They put housing developments in the middle of dry tinder.
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And fine or jail people that dare to clear the dead brush.
Did you happen to see This Editorial from the SF Chronicle yesterday, I think?
Note the bitter tone of the piece, and have a look at the ugly, vicious, poisonous anti-Trump comments below.
Secede already, is what I say.
Maryland is mocked regularly on FR.
I guess we’ll have to wait for the after action reports. Of course the fire danger for the foreseeable future is very low.
I do apologize for snarking. These are very sad times in these natural violence stricken areas.
No problem. We are just a bit on edge in the fire zone. We need a good earthquake to calm us down.
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