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 ...
The aerial photos I have seen show whole communities totally burned to the ground.
Bmk
Too bad California can’t manage it’s resources.
Amen to that.
They put housing developments in the middle of dry tinder.
Ain’t that the truth. And left wing extremists just know what’s best for all of us.
I strongly suggest donating through Samaritan’s Purse,or a local church where 100% will go to the victims.
I LIVE in California and thes fires have been the worst I have known in all of my 76 years of living here.
Dramatic footage shot from within the firetruck cab as they pull into what was supposed to be the rendezvous point at a K-Mart, and the entire place is on fire. The scope of this fire is hard to comprehend. Much of the camera footage looks like the opening screen in Bladerunner with flames towering up and gas explosions.
Uh oh, that truth could be construed as hate to those who hate truth. Better watch it!
bttt
The same thing happened in Gatlinburg, TN early this year.
Here’s something you don’t see every day..........
from the link “NOTICE: If you hate California and have nothing good to say, move on. You are NOT wanted on this thread. Get lost.
Works for me. Bye.
Berkeley. Now why do I know that name?
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/10/10/support-resources-offered-to-all-affected-by-wildfires/
For Pete’s sake. This was just like the flooding from the hurricanes in Florida. It was a perfect storm: in the case of Florida, a hurricane following a nor’easter in conjunction with seasonal and astronomical high tides. In the case of CA, lots of dry grass and brush, ionically as the result of a very rainy early summer, and a fire starting during the northern CA equivalent of the Santa Ana, with winds of 60 or 70 mph. In other words, phenomenally bad luck. It’s nobody’s fault.
I wish Trump would come out and at least tweet support. FEMA resources are there, but he needs to do something personal.
It’s some pretty riveting footage. Those guys earned their paychecks that day.
I hope you realize you just set the tone, for what will become a thread full of nastiness and hard hearted comments.
What a fail.
Just fyi, the rural and semi-rural areas of CA are MORE conservative than most of America.
These are good people who have lost everything. Strange that people think all of California is LA and San Francisco.
This fire is heartbreaking it you can lay it at the feet of the tree huggers who will not allow loggers to thin out the trees or allow grazing to take down the underbrush that feeds these fires. It’s the innocents who will suffer....the farmers, the vintners, those WH have fought off the leftists for years warning of this.
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