[TomGuy]

Difficult to tell from all the smoke how
close it is to where those cars are parked:



Backed up freeway traffic near the above picture. (Didn't
catch which freeway this is. Heavy traffic is moving toward pic one area:

[lainie]

oh what a nightmare

[Ladypixel]

Big Bear on ABC - fire visible through clouds of smoke. (Don't know if the helicopter folk are sure it's Big Bear or not, tho.)

[Ladypixel]

Most of deaths in Cedar Fire so far were people who did not heed mandantory evac orders, ABC says.

Current totals:
950 square miles burned
Deaths: 17
2000 homes destroyed
11,000 firefighters working
Costliest disaster in state history.

Death toll confirmation-wise was 17, does not include the three firefighters who were killed, so actual death total is 20.

[ridesthemiles]

My guess is that is the intersection of the I-5 (wider portions) and the state hwy 14 (the thinner ribbons). I think the pic is shot looking south bound, with the heavier backed up traffic is trying to go north on I-5 toward Stevenson Ranch.

If I am correct, this is the intersection that fell down when the 1971 earthquake happened.

If I am correct, what's the prize?? :)

[Snerfling]

The backed-up traffic is on the northbound I-5 by the interchange to the 14. (Did they close the 5?) BTW, the eastbound 14 to the southbound 5 overpass is where a CHP motorcyle cop plunged to his death in the Northridge earthquake when the span collapsed.

[ErnBatavia]

I know it well! You're looking southbound on the 5 (note all the traffic headed north from that juncture - this would be about 3 miles before Stevenson Ranch/Valencia. The sweep on the left is the beginning of the I-210 headed east. What curves in on the lower right is the infamous twice-collapsed-due-to-earthquakes Newhall Pass interchange at the end of the southbound Antelope Valley Freeway.

Right at the one car you see on it is where it collapsed during the Northrudge quake; it dumped itself all over both sides of the 5 freeway.