A Cat2 Fire Hurricane that lasts for three days. Think I would rather have El Nino and wet Hurricanes in the Gulf.
San Bernardino County Supervisor Dennis Hansberger, in a televised interview, said he would not disagree with reports from a TV helicopter reporter that more than 70 homes had burned in the Grass Valley area west of Lake Arrowhead.
"I wouldn’t dispute that number, and there are a large number of homes still in the path of the fire," he told KABC-TV.
Helicopter views of the Grass Valley neighborhood showed numerous homes burned to the ground. More could be seen fully involved in flames.
Hansberger said his tour of the area this morning showed that efforts over recent years to reduce brush around homes had helped firefighters protect some homes, especially in the Deer Lodge park area north of Lake Arrowhead.
The worst devastation appears to be along Brentwood, which winds along the edge of the Lake Arrowhead Country Club.
Hansberger said the flames ran into the neighborhood along the Grass Valley Creek drainage, which runs into the middle of the community en route to the small Grass Valley Lake.
--The Press-Enterprise
Having never lived through either a hurricane or a firestorm, I couldn’t tell you.
And, God willing, I hopefully will never, ever find out.