Cali is on Fire
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Cali is on Fire
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I called my mother in La Mesa, Monday morning, to ask about the fire. Although the fire is no where near there, its been 35 years since I last lived in the San Diego County area and my last visit was in 95. But I lived through the big 1970 Great Fire back then and remember the ones in the 60s.
A lot of communities I knew before leaving have expanded into, hitherto, rural unpopulated scrubland/canyon areas since those times. I was hearing names of communities being affected that were not in existence back then.
My Dad used to live in Rancho Bernardo until he died in 78. He is buried in Poway. We would take the Grapevine through Ramona and have some friends there (that town was evacuated yesterday). Santa Ysabel, Julian. Poterero is the site of a SCA annual "War" nearby. So many places going up in smoke.
You can go to this SignOnSanDiego.com to read the "Reader's Comments" updates to the article. People are posting updated info as it happens
A lot of communities I knew before leaving have expanded into, hitherto, rural unpopulated scrubland/canyon areas since those times. I was hearing names of communities being affected that were not in existence back then.
My Dad used to live in Rancho Bernardo until he died in 78. He is buried in Poway. We would take the Grapevine through Ramona and have some friends there (that town was evacuated yesterday). Santa Ysabel, Julian. Poterero is the site of a SCA annual "War" nearby. So many places going up in smoke.
You can go to this SignOnSanDiego.com to read the "Reader's Comments" updates to the article. People are posting updated info as it happens
Last edited by VikingBabe; Oct 23, 2007 at 03:48 AM.
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did they say yet what started this whole thing?? you guys been in a drought this summer?? here in the southeast we are
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My dad is in Malibu with an OES strike team (he is a firefighter in California). He says there's fire everywhere.
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Have there been any official comments in the media from the Fight Global Warming Crowd ?
Or do they recognize forest fires yet ?
It really irks me to see people throw lit cigarettes out of their cars/trucks ...
It's like they are stupid to the fact that it has the potential to devastate people lives.
Or do they recognize forest fires yet ?
It really irks me to see people throw lit cigarettes out of their cars/trucks ...
It's like they are stupid to the fact that it has the potential to devastate people lives.
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My daughter and her family had to evacuate Rancho Santa Fe. The area is full of eucalyptus trees which are highly flammable. They are backing onto a valley which acts like a chute for the wind to come down. It's a bad scene all round for every one there. As long as people are safe that is the main thing.
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I'm lucky. The only inconvenience to me was a 45 mi. detour on the way back from Bishop to avoid 1 of the fires and i'm sucking ash & smoke. What the folks in the mountains and down in LoCal have to deal with is major. Think about the # of homes evacuated - I heard it placed at 300'000 homes. That's three hundred thousand homes! Where do you all go? What do you do? We'll do what we can to help, if they can get up here. If the fire continues on it's way to the ocean, Camp Pendleton may be evacuated. THE MARINES! You don't just run Marines off of anything. This is a real disaster, and it was probably set by an arsonist. Yes, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but there are alot of sicko's out there who get off on this type of thing.
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The landfill is about 5 miles downwind of the Ranch Fire (along hwy 126 in Ventura County). Pretty smokey. We're keeping a good eye on it because if the winds keep blowing it could be on us today.