The aerial photos I have seen show whole communities totally burned to the ground.
Bmk
Too bad California can’t manage it’s resources.
They put housing developments in the middle of dry tinder.
I strongly suggest donating through Samaritan’s Purse,or a local church where 100% will go to the victims.
I LIVE in California and thes fires have been the worst I have known in all of my 76 years of living here.
Dramatic footage shot from within the firetruck cab as they pull into what was supposed to be the rendezvous point at a K-Mart, and the entire place is on fire. The scope of this fire is hard to comprehend. Much of the camera footage looks like the opening screen in Bladerunner with flames towering up and gas explosions.
bttt
Here’s something you don’t see every day..........
from the link “NOTICE: If you hate California and have nothing good to say, move on. You are NOT wanted on this thread. Get lost.
Works for me. Bye.
It’s some pretty riveting footage. Those guys earned their paychecks that day.
I hope you realize you just set the tone, for what will become a thread full of nastiness and hard hearted comments.
What a fail.
These are good people who have lost everything. Strange that people think all of California is LA and San Francisco.
This fire is heartbreaking it you can lay it at the feet of the tree huggers who will not allow loggers to thin out the trees or allow grazing to take down the underbrush that feeds these fires. It’s the innocents who will suffer....the farmers, the vintners, those WH have fought off the leftists for years warning of this.
Thank you for posting, POF. It’s like hell on earth. The amount of destruction is just overwhelming.
Reminded me of this joke.
Before anyone decides I’m being insensitive, I’ve been a firefighter and been is some tough situations.
A fire started on some grassland near a farm. The county fire department was called to put out the fire. The fire was more than the county fire department could handle. Someone suggested that a nearby volunteer bunch be called.
Despite some doubt that the volunteer outfit would be of any assistance, the call was made.
The volunteers arrived in a dilapidated old fire truck. They rumbled straight towards the fire, drove right into the middle of the flames and stopped! The firemen jumped off the truck and frantically started spraying water in all directions. Soon they had snuffed out the center of the fire, breaking the blaze into two easily controlled parts.
Watching all this, the farmer was so impressed with the volunteer fire department’s work and was so grateful that his farm had been spared, that right there on the spot he presented the volunteers with a check for $1,000. A local news reporter asked the volunteer fire captain what the department planned to do with the funds.
‘That ought to be obvious,’ he responded, wiping ashes off his coat. ‘The first thing we’re gonna do is get the brakes fixed on our fire truck!’
That is brutal.
All of that destruction must have happened within six hours- the fires started around midnight and considering how dark it was when Berkeley FD arrived it had to be before 6.
The wind doesn’t seem to be gusting hard like in a Santa Ana but that much widespread destruction has to be the result of embers jumping from house to house.
I’ve watched this video a couple of times and am just amazed by it.
The suffering in northern California is horrible and I continue to pray for the people.
Help California?
Sure.
But California has to finally clear out their underbrush and build and start maintaining adequate firebreaks first. If that means a quarter mile wide strip of livestock maintained grazing land running through what has become astronomically expensive real estate the California still has to do that, just as if they were only Kansas or Nebraska instead of being made of money.
This is called a pre-requisite. It isn’t negotiable.
California has continued to pull this crap for four decades. I lived out there, and I was bright enough to leave.
Enough is enough.
Wow
I have lived in fire prone areas for years. You have to keep the brush clear. You have to have a roof designed for it, tile is best. The bushes under the eves have to be kept down. This could have been prevented. Very sad.
So no discussion how California Leftists, The DemoRat Party, GOPee RINOs PG&E, the Public Utilities Commission, environmentalist wackos and all sorts of Liberal scum have ignored infrastructure maintenance, timber management, brush removal, fire roads, power line maintenance and tree trimming, natural gas line maintenance and inspection, and public complaints about these issues for decades?
Or how two thirds of the citizens and illegals in the three severely affected counties voted for Hillary and one party Rat government that did this?