Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27

"It's good to be the King" - Mel Brooks...

2,001 posted on 10/27/2003 8:44:00 PM PST by null and void

Strike teams being staged at Glen Helen, some heading to Lytle creek if OPs approves

2,002 posted on 10/27/2003 8:44:15 PM PST by spectr17

Cong Duncan Hunter lost his home as well!

2,003 posted on 10/27/2003 8:44:34 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Don't forget to Visit/donate at http://www.georgewbush.com)

To: Diddle E. Squat

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

I have training in it - but I was in radio news. Immediate news - if permitted!!!

I'm seriously considering going back into it.

2,004 posted on 10/27/2003 8:45:25 PM PST by Gabz (Smoke-gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - SWAT'EM)

To: Brad's Gramma

2,005 posted on 10/27/2003 8:46:12 PM PST by lainie

Highland is getting close to me. One town over. I can smell the smoke from there. I got my bug out bag ready in truck. I'm in the old part of town in the middle of city but after watching the fires burn down into SAn Bernardino more than once I'm ready to boogie as soon as they say get gone.

2,006 posted on 10/27/2003 8:46:23 PM PST by spectr17

To: socal_parrot

ohhh. learn something new every day!

2,007 posted on 10/27/2003 8:47:09 PM PST by lainie

To: Diddle E. Squat

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 would be a cakewalk to do it.

2,008 posted on 10/27/2003 8:47:15 PM PST by Gabz (Smoke-gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - SWAT'EM)

>> I do not know him, I researched it and he is not practicing in SC.

Thanks. I always assumed he went back to San Clemente after the Navy.

2,009 posted on 10/27/2003 8:47:33 PM PST by PhilipFreneau

My wife is still at work in Northridge, just a skip over from Granada Hills. This really sucks.

2,010 posted on 10/27/2003 8:48:35 PM PST by dogbyte12

To: wildbirdhunter

hey, i recognize that name

2,011 posted on 10/27/2003 8:48:38 PM PST by spectr17

Used to live in the Upper Part of Yucaipa and shopped at the Redlands Mall when I didn't want to go into SB to shop.

Where are you in relation to the Mall?

2,012 posted on 10/27/2003 8:49:15 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Don't forget to Visit/donate at http://www.georgewbush.com)

Best of luck and wishes to you and yours.

2,013 posted on 10/27/2003 8:49:17 PM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi)

To: wildbirdhunter

welcome, how u doing down that way?

2,015 posted on 10/27/2003 8:49:19 PM PST by spectr17

Sleep well - you deserve it.

2,016 posted on 10/27/2003 8:49:27 PM PST by Gabz (Smoke-gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - SWAT'EM)

East of REdlands Mall, by the University of Redlands

2,017 posted on 10/27/2003 8:50:11 PM PST by spectr17

To: Diddle E. Squat; Travis McGee

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?

WND editor-Publisher Joseph Farah will be on the Art Bell- George Noury *Coast to Coast* radio program tonight, discussing the Al-Quiada link to the California *wildfires*. I expect Tuesday morning's edition of WND should be quite interesting.

WND: Al-Qaida planned U.S. forest fires; FBI memo described plot to set blazes in the West

-archy-/-

2,018 posted on 10/27/2003 8:50:58 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)

Miami 26
Charger 10

4rth

Safety for Miami just now

2,019 posted on 10/27/2003 8:51:34 PM PST by spectr17

To: I'll be your Huckleberry; nicmarlo; spectr17; Ladypixel; lainie; PhiKapMom

Your effort has been a valuable asset for many of us without local coverage. Well done...

What Huckleberry said!

2,020 posted on 10/27/2003 8:51:38 PM PST by abner (In search of a witty tag line...)

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794