To: oceanperch
if people would just clear the fuel !!
Hate to tell that guy, but in infernos like these, a perimeter won't necessarily get you anything. 50' and 100' firestorms!
To: lainie
That's what the spokesman for LA County was saying -- once it turns into a firestorm, it takes out everything in its path and has its own wind driving it.
1,847 posted on
10/27/2003 7:50:51 PM PST by
PhiKapMom
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To: lainie
Hate to tell that guy, but in infernos like these, a perimeter won't necessarily get you anything. 50' and 100' firestorms!I'm no expert but judging from the near horizontal flight pattern of embers I saw on TV last night, 1000 yards would be an appropriate fire break width. These are huge fires.
1,854 posted on
10/27/2003 7:53:30 PM PST by
meyer
To: lainie
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!!
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