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SoCal Fires Live Thread 10/28
10/28/03 | Myself

Posted on 10/27/2003 9:17:40 PM PST by spectr17

SoCal Fires Live Thread 10/28


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: firestorm; forestfire; michaeldobbs; prayerlist; socalfires; wildfire
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To: Fitzcarraldo
"...210 closure also..."

what's going on? fire breakout?

781 posted on 10/28/2003 8:56:52 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: spectr17
uhoh that does not sound like good news.
782 posted on 10/28/2003 8:57:18 AM PST by lainie
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something about victims...
783 posted on 10/28/2003 8:57:20 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Wasn't much of that section burned out before, is the old section rekindling near the 210/15?
784 posted on 10/28/2003 8:57:56 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: spectr17
yes, the fire is spreading toward 7 oaks.

is that 7 oaks in the bottom of the canyon, just south of sugar loaf and north of grinnel peak?

785 posted on 10/28/2003 8:58:28 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Travis McGee
I realize it's tough to land a chopper on a mountainside in heavy winds. But how hard is it to fly several hundred feet above a fire and drop water?

In 1985, I rode in a CH-53E Super Stallion over a small fire near Saddleback. We were 1,000 feet AGL, and we still got bounced around a bit.

400-500 feet AGL in a much lighter Seahawk over the Cedar Canyon fire would be...ahem...an experience.

786 posted on 10/28/2003 8:59:15 AM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: CJ Wolf; Poohbah; archy
/1/ At least some of the fires were known to have been set by arsonists. See the police artist's drawing above.

/2/ ELF arsonists are extremely active in SoCal, proudly takeing credit for burning custom homes, apartment complexes, and SUV dealerships. They hate anywhere humans live on "natural" land, which is most of what has been burned.

/3/ Last week the FBI was searching for a pro-Palestinean Green Party radical who was seen unbolting power towers, in the days before these Santa Ana winds were forecast.

/4/ The FBI reports that Al Queda has plans to set massive forest and brush fires in the USA as a terror weapon.

Look at the fire maps of SoCal and ponder the coincidence of so many over so wide an area, even given Santa Ana winds. If this series of fires has nothing to do with terrorism, it certainly was compounded by arson, that's a known fact. Certainly we had BETTER PREPARE for these types of massive coordinated arson-terror events, Al Queda says they are going to do it, so we had better prepare for many more firestorms like these burning today.

Meanwhile, 100 Navy Seahawk helicopters are sitting idle, ten minutes from the fires.

787 posted on 10/28/2003 9:00:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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There sending traffic back toward Victorville!
788 posted on 10/28/2003 9:00:35 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: PhiKapMom
Spectr would know more on this...but now the winds are a major factor. Your earlier apt description was very good, Mom. This is a mountain range folks...elevation ummmmm 8-9 thousand ft. Further east Mt. San Gorgonio is the highest mountain in SoCal at a little over 10,000ft. This might help with perspective. As Mom said..nearly sheer drop to the vally floor from the 18 where they are fighting this thing.
789 posted on 10/28/2003 9:00:58 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (Wm. Wallace did not cry 'diversity' while being disemboweled.)
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To: Conservative4Ever
I think helicopters can only fly up to 10,000 feet. Going up near their peak height, in wind, with fires, carrying water is not a routine procedure. Lives right now are more important than real estate. That is just how we are prioritizing things.
790 posted on 10/28/2003 9:02:55 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: Conservative4Ever
They just announced on KFI they are now closing I-15 through the Cajon Pass because of fires.
791 posted on 10/28/2003 9:04:19 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Don't forget to Visit/donate at http://www.georgewbush.com)
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To: maggiefluffs
I heard it was closed at the Cajon Pass -- wonder if that is a smoke problem or is there fire in that area as well?
792 posted on 10/28/2003 9:06:04 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Don't forget to Visit/donate at http://www.georgewbush.com)
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To: dogbyte12
thanks for the info...explains alot. My thought was to give the rest of Freeperland a perspective that this is a mountain range, not just some local rolling hills. :)
793 posted on 10/28/2003 9:06:34 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (Wm. Wallace did not cry 'diversity' while being disemboweled.)
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To: maggiefluffs
I just got live365 to let me in
794 posted on 10/28/2003 9:06:58 AM PST by lainie
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To: PhiKapMom
In Mexico, you just drive through the fires! On our way to Ensenada, there was a brush fire and we were on a toll road and we just gunned it! No problemo.
795 posted on 10/28/2003 9:06:59 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: PhiKapMom
Flare up - Devore (?)
796 posted on 10/28/2003 9:07:06 AM PST by maggief
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To: lainie
Great - one of the choppers is preparing to dump.
797 posted on 10/28/2003 9:07:54 AM PST by maggief
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KFI -- fire officials want everybody off the mountain, Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead voluntary evacuations
798 posted on 10/28/2003 9:08:40 AM PST by lainie
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To: lainie
you hear that, Mr. Arrogant KTLA guy in Arrowhead? /sarc
799 posted on 10/28/2003 9:09:10 AM PST by lainie
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To: maggiefluffs
I will bet that is it with the winds starting to pick up!
800 posted on 10/28/2003 9:09:20 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Don't forget to Visit/donate at http://www.georgewbush.com)
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