Posted on 08/12/2023 6:50:58 AM PDT by cuz1961
Were you in Santa Rosa?
Same day as “Great Chicago Fire” IIRC.
Yes it was, which has a lot to do with Peshtigo being much less well known.
I love that video.
It demonstrates just one reason of many why I struggle to shed a tear for Hawaiians:
They drove right by a woman on the ground.
Phoenix/Talent, Oregon. September 8 2020. The Alameda fire determined Arson. BLM/Antifa just happened to be camping in a local park.
Elephant in the room:
No community in the country adopted a single change in development practices or building codes in the wake of the Paradise fires (at least not to my knowledge).
Hawaiians were blissfully ignorant of the risks and now they’ve paid the price. People died not because of the fire, but due to failure of their infrastructure in the wake of an arson-caused wildfire stoked by high winds in known drought conditions.
I don’t care for the comparison with Paradise.
We were not affected personally by the Paradise fire, although we know many that lost everything. But there was another fire—the Berry Creek Fire two years later that had us under emergency evacuation. All I can say is when the glow over the tree line gets brighter, the motivation to pack quicker kicks in.
You can blame Newsom financier PG&E for the Paradise fire.
This post is for those that live in potential fire prone areas. Even if you live in a suburban neighborhood ssuch as the Coffey neighborhood in Santa Rosa (2017), you could be at risk.
Following numerous fires in our neck of the woods here in Butte County, some cause by PGE lines, some by neglect and some by stupidity—has caused a large group offolks living in our area to create a GMRS based radio fire watch. We have a weekly net every tuesday and have our own repeater. Local hams helped set up the system and trained residents how to navigate the FCC system to get the license (no test but a $35 fee that provides a license for 10 years) as well as ensure that proper equipment was set up properly—the weekly net is to identify transmission problems, etc...
The key is to use the radio and identify mistakes before hand—having problems during an emergency is not ideal.
Perhaps in the future I will elaborate with a separate post.
Quite frankly, every area has its own potential for a particular disaster—neighborhoods and individuals will be on their own. Its not just fire...
One of the main points is to ensure that grandma living down the street alone has the help and assistance she needs—if she needs to be evacuated then someone needs to get her out—whether she wants to go or not...
Paradise showed us that one can not rely on cell phones or automatic warning systems. The fire raced through so fast it burned the lines, towers, everything...
In the future I will put together a more detailed post. This isn’t prepping or anything like that—in fact our local sheriffs department works closely with our group to ensure communications are both up and down—we will get the information faster on evac routes and road closures than listening to radio or television news...
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Peshtigo lost most of it’s population in that fire. Out of a town of 1700, 1500 were killed. Surrounding area may have added as many as 1000 more.
Eight towns destroyed that day, including Chicago.
Reporters never heard of poor Peshtigo even when it was in ashes. They were all focused on the relatively small fire had in Chicago that day.
I'm sure that was just a co-incidence.
/s
In Peshtigo, all of the buildings were made of wood as was the furniture inside. The roads and trails were covered with wooden planks and sawdust. When it hit the town, the fire created a fire storm like the ones in Hamburg, Tokyo and Yokohama caused by fire bombings in WWII.
Everyone tells me it was just a coincidence!!
The 4 black cladded masked African American goons on motorcycles who surrounded my car and harrassed me that night in a parking lot after my home burned was just a coincidence too!
I remember the olden days when a house would be built on an acre. If the house burned others would not be affected. Now those houses are built sometimes ten feet apart.
A local developer wanted to build 39 houses on 4 acres.
Maybe they should stop going to blue libtard states that all their crap burn with impunity?
Naw that would be too simple
Libtards let all your crap burn
You voted for them
Lol
This is the article I published the day before the fire.... I no longer believe in coincidence
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2020/09/obama-warns-of-quiet-riot-among-blacks.html?m=1
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