Posted on 12/06/2017 6:49:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I wild guess, but I would think from Ventura last night (it was near the ocean - that looks like a beach/wall in front). The heavy action tonight (scanner) seems to be north up in Ojai and to the east, east of Santa Paula.
I hear on the scanner tonight lots of activity up in Ojai - glad your daughter got out - hopefully their house will survive. It is amazing how one house can be burned - and one next door survives.
Have been listening to some of the fire fighters saying it’s been years since any ‘controlled’ fires burned out all the growth in many areas. Where once they could burn out areas the environmentalists have often fought against these burns.
As always, caww, thanks for finding amazing photos.
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#ThomasFire: US 101 will be closed in both directions from State Beaches to Bates Road. Fire on both sides of the highway and in the median.
I am very suspicious about all these fires as well.
Wow!
I have heard talk about this as well.
I hope the President and all other conservatives point out that this fire is courtesy of the EPA with, if there is evidence, the assistance of the occupying army
Californicatia will soon look for Federal Aid.
Send them nothing until they outlaw sanctuary cities?
Creek fire - Kagel Canyon Rd, north of Lake View terrace, Los Angeles County - 12,605 acres, 5% contained as of 6:58 AM. Mandatory evacuation NE of 210 from Sunland Tujunga to Veteran's Memorial Community Regional Park plus west of 210 in Shadow Hills.
Thomas fire - Hwy 150 and Hwy 126, north of Santa Paula, Ventura County - 96,000 acres, 5% contained as of 7:36 AM.
Effective immediately the following areas are under Mandatory Evacuations:
• West of Hwy 33, North of West El Roblar Dr
•The following areas east of the city of Santa Paula and north of Hwy 126
o Timber Canyon Rd @ Hwy 126
o Toland Rd @ Hwy 126
o Hall Rd @ Hwy 126
• All areas within the City of Ojai east of Hwy 33 and north of Hwy 150 with the exception of Ojai Valley Community Hospital and the evacuation center at Nordhoff High School
o Ojai Valley Community Hospital – Shelter in Place o Nordhoff High School – Shelter in Place
MANDATORY EVACUATIONS:
• City of Santa Paula - Boundary of Say Road north to Thomas Aquinas, Dickenson Ranch Road east to Santa Paula Creek
• City of Santa Paula - Boundary of Monte Vista Street north to city limits, Foothill Road from Steckel to Peck Road to north of city limits
• Santa Paula unincorporated area towards Ventura- North of Foothill Road from Peck Road to Wells Road including: Wheeler Canyon, Aliso Canyon and Rancho Vista
• City of Ventura - Teloma east to Brent Street, Telegraph Road north to north of Foothill Road
• City of Ventura - Victoria Road east to Hill Road, Telegraph Road north to Foothill Road
• City of Ventura - North Ashwood Avenue east to Hill Road, Telegraph Road north to Foothill Road
• City of Ventura - North of Foothill Road from Wells Road to Poli Street
• City of Ventura - North of Main Street from Seward Avenue to Hwy 33 (includes entire Ventura Avenue area)
• Oak View - Boundary of Hwy 33, Creek Road and Hermosa Road
• Entire Community of Casitas Springs - Evacuate to Ventura County Fairgrounds - 10 West Harbor Blvd., Ventura
• East Ojai Valley - Carne Road east to McAndrew Road, Reeves Road north to Thacher Road
• Upper Ojai Valley - Hwy 150 from Dennison Grade east to Osborne Road and all residences north
• Ventura County North Coast Area - Boundary of Hwy 33 on the north to Casitas Vista Road, northwest to Hwy 150, Hwy 150 (Casitas Pass Road) west to US 101 and south on US 101 (including Pacific Coast Highway) to Emma Wood State Beach
We’re a stone’s throw from downtown and there’s no wind and no smoke in the air here. We can see plumes in the distance.
“Have been listening to some of the fire fighters saying it’s been years since any ‘controlled’ fires burned out all the growth in many areas. Where once they could burn out areas the environmentalists have often fought against these burns.”
That has been going on for decades on the West Coast. The enviro terrorists have been banning controlled burns for decades. Riverbanks, that I used fish from shore, a decade ago are filled in with dead brush, live brush and sometime not so friendly critters from the rivers’s edges back a 100 yards or more.
The lack of brush clearing/burning is bad enough.
However, the eco terrorists have introduced a new weapon against us.
Farmers and ranchers to plow or bulldoze the brush/weeds from the roads sides into their land for 50 to 100’ plus.
After our recent fires that burned up to hiways and often jumped over the roads, it was obvious that the ranchers and farmers had not been making those fire breaks on their side of the fences by roads and hiways.
During our recent fires up north, I posted that my wife were not seeing the fire breaks the farmers and ranchers used to make.
Mariner posted the following. This is what set up these terrible fires from the Oregon Border to the Mexican border:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/epa-waterways-wetlands-rule-118319
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_pool
Nearly every acre of land from San Francisco to Eureka has a tributary stream (even if dry in summer) and vernal pools. EPA claimed jurisdiction over all of it in 2015 and said farmers, ranchers...anyone...could not cut anything within 100 feet of these “protected waters”.
The CA EPA supports and enforces these rules stridently.
Underbrush and grasses exploded.
Then they exploded in fire.
That’s the root cause of this horrible tragedy.
66 posted on 10/14/2017, 9:45:00 AM by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
My daughter and her family live on Thacher Road and evacuated on Monday night. We’re all just praying that the Thacher School is saved. A trustee was paying to have the school sprayed with foam but thus far we don’t know if it helped.
I'm in Texas, and not following this closely enough to know.
Ignore the twits who don’t understand when it’s inappropriate to crap on a thread about suffering of fellow human beings; sheesh,I had to tune out some low-class trash on several forums, including here, who interjected their ignorant attempts at interpreting events as diving judgment when we had our fires up here. Ignorant fools who presume to speak for God but are as far from Christians as one could possibly be.
One of the photos is Homes on Ventura harbor flames behind the homes are on the hills of harbor blvd. for fire to be this close to the beaches is unheard of!!!! Embers are being carried for miles into neighborhoods EVERYWHERE!!!!
Damn. That's my old neighborhood. I probably know some of the evacuees. My old house is about five blocks south of the Tujunga Wash.
I have had similar thoughts....we are all sinners, but somehow Californicate particularly stands out.
Prayers up for your daughter and her family.
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