Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27

10/27/03 | Myself

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1009327/posts?page=48

[nicmarlo]

GOOD NIGHT ALL....my neck's hurting .....need some sleep. Prayers for all the families/friends out there in California....including my own. God keep them safe; God be with the firefighters, let none lose their lives.

[spectr17]

thanks

[Gabz]

I see where you are going - but I disagree.

Most of the media would be all over themselves in the coverage if your speculation were true.

That's my devil's advocacy take on it.

[PhiKapMom]

All they said on KFI was that the expensive area of Chatsworth seems spared as the fire moves around it into Brown Canyon which is above DeSota.

[swheats]

I think somebody took the scorched earth idea too literal this time. This is unbelievable.

[okimhere]

I'm probably 8 miles from the foothills but that 8 miles is covered generously with juniper trees which ignite and burn fast. I noticed a smoke scent last night - I guess the whole SoCal area is beginning to be affected.

You know the air purifier that John and Ken and the others advertise? I bought one in July and, even when we had the heavy smoke for the first two days of Grand Prix, not one hint of smoke was smelled inside the house. I can see why the Pentagon used them after 9-11. The unit is a lifesaver for your lungs.

[PhiKapMom]

I cannot believe people are starting another fire in the area! Would like to throw them into the fire!

[Free Trapper]

Wish I knew what FReeper to credit "must not sleep...the clowns will eat me" but I thought it qualified as a first class FReeperism.Many heavy eyes watch these threads.

[Not now, Not ever!]

if people would just clear the fuel

Now if I can just establish a one mile clear space I will be safe.

Fires like these can throw a hot brand up to a mile!!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for the excellent maps.

This is one shows EXACTLY what is wrong and what is missing from the national news coverage: detailed info.

I know that the producers will argue that its too detailed, unfamiliar, and won't hold the attention of those not from the area. But that is because they are so locked into programming to the level of a 3 year old with ADD. Too many news producers who are schooled in the infotainment/news magazine/drama and emotion school of broadcasting. Its all about flashing lots of images quickly, dramatic flames instead of precise info, shocking totals instead of precise info, pictures of women crying in front of their burned homes, instead of precise info. All have their place in news, but the actual news details are missing.

How hard would it be to put this detailed map on full screen, like a weather map, and have a reporter/anchor walk through with a pointer explaining what is happening/has happened at each location, building a complete picture of the real scope, history, pattern, and dynamics of the situation? It works with wars, weather, and even car chases. But noooo, the producers are so afraid that people will immediately switch the channel over to Baywatch. Yet if done well, the opposite would occur.

This is one case where I strongly fault Faux News Channel and their tabloid mentality. Its great that they include a conservative perspective, but their producers are from the flash and shock MTV-style entertainment mag side of the news biz.

Gabz, you were in TV news, am I off base on this?

[meyer]

Where's the news only thread?

Here

[PhiKapMom]

Take care and thanks for the updates!

[LikeLight]

W, this is freaking me out - all these reports of serial arson and yet news just refers to "wildfires" and "brushfires", or mentions the ONE fire accidently started by a hunter . . . HELLO MEDIA . . . something very scary is afoot . . .

[spectr17]

FF at Plunge Creek near Highland by water tank are firing backfires

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for the excellent maps.

This is one shows EXACTLY what is wrong and what is missing from the national news coverage: detailed info.

I know that the producers will argue that its too detailed, unfamiliar, and won't hold the attention of those not from the area. But that is because they are so locked into programming to the level of a 3 year old with ADD. Too many news producers who are schooled in the infotainment/news magazine/drama and emotion school of broadcasting. Its all about flashing lots of images quickly, dramatic flames instead of precise info, shocking totals instead of precise info, pictures of women crying in front of their burned homes, instead of precise info. All have their place in news, but the actual news details are missing.

How hard would it be to put this detailed map on full screen, like a weather map, and have a reporter/anchor walk through with a pointer explaining what is happening/has happened at each location, building a complete picture of the real scope, history, pattern, and dynamics of the situation? It works with wars, weather, and even car chases. But noooo, the producers are so afraid that people will immediately switch the channel over to Baywatch. Yet if done well, the opposite would occur.

This is one case where I strongly fault Faux News Channel and their tabloid mentality. Its great that they include a conservative perspective, but their producers are from the flash and shock MTV-style entertainment mag side of the news biz.

Gabz, you were in TV news, am I off base on this?

[meyer]

Gene Zimmerman, the SBNF supervisor has mismanaged that forest into a disaster and should be fired.

"Fired" takes on a whole new meaning now. Sadly, he cannot reap that which he has sewn.

[dogbyte12]

Wish I knew what FReeper to credit "must not sleep...the clowns will eat me" but I thought it qualified as a first class FReeperism.Many heavy eyes watch these threads.

It's from an episode of the Simpsons, where Homer in flashback is showing how he built Bart his own toddler bed, that was supposed to be with Krusty the Clown bed posts, but turned out to look spooky as Hell.

Baby Bart kept chanting, "Must not sleep,... the clown will eat me"