Southern California Fires

[🜲 PoLiX]

SAN DIEGO - Thousands more residents were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday, as walls of wind-whipped flames consumed hundreds more homes across tinder-dry Southern California and raised the number of evacuees into the hundreds of thousands.

 

At least 346,000 homes were evacuated in San Diego County alone, sheriff’s officials said. But the total number could be much higher, and state officials were still struggling to estimate how many people had fled.

 

Three new large fires overnight added to a dozen earlier ones: Hundreds of homes burned in Fallbrook, a town of 30,000 that was evacuated. Another 2,500 homes were threatened there. In the Santa Clarita and Simi Valley areas, 900 homes were threatened. A third fire near Pauma Valley forced evacuations there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21431682/?GT1=10450

 

This !@#$%^&* is just outta control...

[rootbear75]

apparently mackieman lives near them

 

Mackieman> Dude, I have wildfires burning less than two miles from my place. Can we talk about this later? heh

rootbear75> sure lol

rootbear75> RUN FORREST RUN

[ThunderJam]

I play a lot of paintball, and a ton of major paintball sites and companies are based around sandiego. A bunch of their website went down a day or two ago, rumor is they packed up all their servers and got the heck out.

[masscarnage]

i live out in cali, i live in san bernardino county were in 03 the mountainline was entirely covered in flames was pretty scary and now all my parents have been watchin is fire watch. The smoke is just horrible leaves a really bad smell in the air all the way out here.

[★ Blocks]

The situation is very bad. I'm in the LA area, where we are only experiencing the smoke from local fires, but I have family in an affected part of San Diego County. Multiple homes in their neighborhood have burned down, with the closest being only two houses away. As long as the high winds keep up, the fires are very tough to put out.

[Cancer+]

I'm on a trip to San Francisco. Not sure how far away that is. I dont see the fires or anything though. Crazy !@#$%^&* though.

[JDS]

we had a wildfire here a few years back 'okanagan mountain park fire' you americans sent up alot of dudes to help us out, i can only assume we are sending a bunch down

[ThunderJam]

OH my god!!!!one!1 did jds just say something positive about americans? GROUNDBREAKING!

 

I donno if we do have any foreigners helping... if we do maybe it just hasnt been publicized much so i dont know

[★ 1587200]

did jds just say something positive about americans? GROUNDBREAKING!

Forget the thing about Americans...the fact that he said ANYTHING positive is groundbreaking.

[Incomplete]

Couldn't they just knock down anything around it that would burn to stop the fires from spreading? I've not seen it so I don't know how bad it is.

 

All I know is that over 500,000 people have been evacuated, more than 13 fires across 970sq km, 5700 firefighters have been deployed and 12 of them have been injured, 110kmp winds are helping the fire spread and fires have climbed up to 195ft in some areas

[rootbear75]

question: who was the careless !@#$%^&* who threw away the burning cigarette?

[mirrorrim]

I live in Fallbrook It's 10 mins from my house.

[rootbear75]

Run Forrest! RUN!

[mirrorrim]

whew it's now going a different direction

[masscarnage]

it was arsen for the most part i believe and the firefighters did catch someone trying to start another fire a few days back

[★ Dav]

wouldn't surprise me, people starting these things deliberately has been do!@#$%^&*ented before. There are many mechanisms for it to occur naturally though.

[🜲 PoLiX]

Couldn't they just knock down anything around it that would burn to stop the fires from spreading? I've not seen it so I don't know how bad it is.

 

All I know is that over 500,000 people have been evacuated, more than 13 fires across 970sq km, 5700 firefighters have been deployed and 12 of them have been injured, 110kmp winds are helping the fire spread and fires have climbed up to 195ft in some areas

 

They'd have to clear out atleast 2.5miles in front of the fire. 1 ember can start another fire, and that is normally how it moves and jumps so fast. Firefighters have been trapped before because embers have made it over their heads and caught stuff behind them on fire.

[Hakaku]

Fires in North America have been deliberately set for thousands of years in North America; if you stop having controlled fires, then you're bound to have a huge out-of-control one later on. It's even worse for areas, such as in deciduous forest, where there's a lot of peat. Even when a fire's been put out, it's most likely still burning/smouldering underground, just to re-emerge up to a century later and cause more havoc.