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Live Updating Thread: 2007 Southern California Firestorms
LA Times ^ | 9:35 AM PDT, October 21, 2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 10/21/2007 9:48:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

UPDATE: The city of Malibu is advising residents in Puerco Canyon to begin evacuating due to a wildfire driven by powerful winds. This area is north of Pacific Coast Highway and about 1 mile west of Pepperdine University. Residents along the beach on Malibu Road may soon be evacuated. Pacific Coast Highway is closed between Kanan-Dume Road and Topanga Canyon. Residents are advised to head to the west. Evacuation centers are being set up in the Zuma Beach area.

A wildfire driven by powerful winds in the Malibu Hills this morning threatened a university, destroyed at least one home and forced the evacuation of hundreds more, authorities said.

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To: La Enchiladita; hole_n_one

Here’s an interactive picture of Castle Kashan that I posted on the other thread: (before it burned - check the surrounding area)

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.043019~-118.688439&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6965798


61 posted on 10/21/2007 10:43:32 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: hole_n_one; lainie

It appears two or three buildings at the castle survived...!!


62 posted on 10/21/2007 10:43:55 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: al baby

Oh I know. I hesitated to even mention it. The “poor” people near Rt. 126 aren’t as important as the Malibu Colony residents. ;)


63 posted on 10/21/2007 10:44:00 AM PDT by lainie ("If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." - Marion Barry)
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To: hole_n_one

I just heard on KFI that Malibu is now asking all residents to evacuate.


64 posted on 10/21/2007 10:44:13 AM PDT by Yaelle
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65 posted on 10/21/2007 10:44:49 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Old Seadog

Same when you visit Santa Barbara. You look out over the Pacific and you’re looking straight south. It’s very disorienting.


66 posted on 10/21/2007 10:45:13 AM PDT by lainie ("If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." - Marion Barry)
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To: hole_n_one

I’m glad I was wrong about the waterdrop units flying, but I’m surprised. Are they built for this in a different way?


67 posted on 10/21/2007 10:46:23 AM PDT by lainie ("If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." - Marion Barry)
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To: La Enchiladita

Are you near this fire?


68 posted on 10/21/2007 10:46:27 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: La Enchiladita; Ernest_at_the_Beach

That’s great news!

Sustained wind in the high desert is now up to 26+ mph out of the northeast.


69 posted on 10/21/2007 10:47:55 AM PDT by lainie ("If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." - Marion Barry)
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To: yorkie

What a beautiful location, thanks yorkie, although surrounded by brush, eh? I wish I had visited there...

Funny thing, I was talking with a couple of friends re going up to the S.M. Mtns today.

Although, as I rode through the mountain (Sepulveda) pass yesterday, I noted how dry all the hillsides are....


71 posted on 10/21/2007 10:48:08 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: SE Mom

I am 12-15 miles away, SE Mom, thanks for asking...:)
Thought I smelled smoke but must have imagined it.
I am also east and south of the fire, not in the wind path.


72 posted on 10/21/2007 10:50:12 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: hole_n_one

look in the lower left of photo cnn is such a joke

73 posted on 10/21/2007 10:51:08 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: svcw; HKMk23

Just pinging for a new thread.....


74 posted on 10/21/2007 10:51:09 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: MNJohnnie

We didn’t rejoice at the bridge collapse in MN; why do you rejoice at a fire here?


75 posted on 10/21/2007 10:51:32 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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76 posted on 10/21/2007 10:52:54 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: MNJohnnie

You an idiot my mistress live up there


77 posted on 10/21/2007 10:53:07 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: MNJohnnie
Burn, Baby, Burn!

I would guess such a comment would come from you. Very predictable.

Hey hang tight, maybe some firefighters will be killed, maybe a few more homes burned...

78 posted on 10/21/2007 10:53:08 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: MNJohnnie

Sick. ...but from you, expected.


79 posted on 10/21/2007 10:53:09 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (My other Telecaster is a Thinline)
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To: Yaelle

Yaelle, Marta Waller on KTLA was also saying a few minutes there is a great deal of livestock, horses, pets, etc. in the area.... It’s always like this. Some will not leave without their animals.

Gives me the heebie-jeebies as I recall 1993.


80 posted on 10/21/2007 10:53:56 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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