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This looks ~really~ bad.

Bret's very close to the San Diego fires, I think. I presume there are others, too. People are being evacuated from where I lived for a few years just north of LA, also. My son may be in the path also if it heads for the coast as expected.

Good luck out there, guys.
 
Amen to that. I've never been around where it's been as bad as it is out there now, but I've had to keep my important stuff by the front door in case we had to bolt. It isn't a nice feeling.
 
Talked to my daughter in San Diego this morning and she says it looks worse than the ones a few years ago. My son-in-law is a deputy sheriff and he was called out at 4:00 this morning. I've heard Ramona and Rancho Bernardo have already been hit. I think Bret is in Poway which is right next to Rancho Bernardo.

Marv J
 
interesting 60 minutes program on it last night...fire department feels it is the direct result of years and years of over-managing past fires...the years of controlling burn actually has resulted in the dense over growth and dead debris...so what now?
 
Just like people in the midwest get used to tornados and people in the north get used to ice storms, we get used to wildfires. If you live in a fire-prone area you make sure to stay prepared to evacuate with your important belongings during Summer months. It's unusual for a fire to catch you by surprise, so typically people get all their irreplaceable and valuable items safely moved before there is any real danger. The ones you see in the news who lost everything are usually the ones who refused to evacuate when told to do so. There's always some nut ball standing on the roof of his house with a garden hose waiting for to challenge a 100-foot wall of flames moving 50 MPH.
 
True, Steve. Scott mentioned earler about keeping important stuff by the front door, just in case. Not me. I leave early!
Jeff
 
Most people I know don't do anything too special. The main thing is to keep important documents organized and in one place. There is usually several hours minimum between voluntary evacuation and mandatory evacuation. Even on short notice you typically have a couple hours to get documents, valuables, pets, etc into the car. The common mistake is waiting in hopes that it will veer away. Then you don't have time to get things out.
 
I have no experience or knowledge in such matters, but I am thinking of you all and hope the loss of property and life can be minimzed.
Please be safe.
 
Don't worry about me, I'm in no real fire danger. What I'm worried about is the enormous sycamore tree in our neighbors yard. She never trims it and a large limb has already taken out an expensive fence. If that thing falls, or even part of it falls, our house will be flattened! It's really annoying, actually.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]If that thing falls, or even part of it falls, our house will be flattened [/QUOTE]
not to make light of a serious topic but sounds like you have a midnight rendevous..do the firefighters a favor!!

.oh yea...don't forget to put the notch towards their house!
 

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This thing is HUGE! Even if it falls towards their house, the roots will probably rip my house right off the ground. I wonder how much wind an un-maintained 100+ foot sycamore can handle? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif
 
Thoughts turn to Southern California fires

I am awakened this morning thinking about the
catastropic proportions of people less fortunate
than me. At last count, 655 homes have burned to
the ground in Southern California. Parts of seven
counties and 240,000 acres have been burned, the equivilant
of 374 square miles.

People have been displaced to makeshift shelters.
I hope we do not have any Forum members affected.

My thoughts turn to what I can do. Keep alert to what
we can do to make a difference in the lives of those
less fortunate.

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Best wishes to all,
 
Talked with my son in Oceanside. Many of the families living off-base at Pendleton evacuated Monday afternoon, and some base housing has been notified to get ready to leave. He's on the base and not too far from the ocean.

I saw only one fire in our 4 years out there and it was a new and certainly memorable experience for me. The natives were driving out to look at it and didn't seem overly concerned. I think I'll stick with snow and ice.
 
I'm actually starting to worry about some forum members, Bret being one of them.
Please check in SoCal.
 
Glad to hear you're not in any fire danger Steve. I'm still waiting to hear from my cousin who lives around Poway.I reassure myself that "no news is good news".

As for the tree, I don't suppose you can do much to have it trimmed,huh?

Be safe everyone over there.

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
 
Where is Encino in relation to these fires?
 
We forget that fire is part of the ecology of Southern California. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. wrote Two Years Before the Mast, a book written about a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 from Boston to California and back, in it he describes a massive wildfire burning in the uninhabited back country of San Diego.

Having grown up in San Diego in the 50's and 60's, I remember fires were a regular occurrence. At the time, the only fire fighting effort was to protect structures, not necessarily to contain the fire. Today, things are much different, with people living in places that were once considered wilderness.

Once the Santa Anna winds stop, so will the fires. I hope that is soon.
 
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