Cali Wildfires
 

Tiny, Dane, and Lohan everything ok?








http://www.reuters.com/article/compa...40804320090830


* About 2,000 homes under mandatory evacuation orders
* Governor Schwarzenegger says fire "out of control"

* Fire 5 percent contained, 10,000 homes threatened

* Fire threatens major communications facilities (Updates with quotes from residents, new numbers)

By Mary Milliken

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif., Aug 30 (Reuters) - A wildfire in the heavily populated Los Angeles foothills threatened 10,000 homes on Sunday, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger warned residents to heed evacuation orders for the "out of control" and "very dangerous" blaze.

The heat-driven fire nearly doubled in size overnight and has now burned 35,000 acres (14,000 hectares) of thick, bone-dry brush in the mountains above five towns, a 12-mile (19 km) stretch from La Crescenta to La Canada Flintridge, the California Fire Department said.

Authorities have ordered residents to evacuate about 2,000 homes threatened by the fire about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

"These fires are still totally out of control," Schwarzenegger told reporters at the firefighters' command post in Lake View Terrace, California. "This is a huge and is a very dangerous fire. The fire is moving very close to homes and to structures... this is why it's important to pay close attention to the evacuation."

In La Crescenta, the streets were deserted on Sunday afternoon except for a few residents fleeing with their suitcases and other belongings on foot.

Bob Sebesta, 47, sat watching the burning ridge from his in-laws' house, which everyone evacuated last night with pictures, paperwork and "stuff you can't replace."

"I keep thinking I should go water the backyard," Sebesta said.

Three remote homes have been destroyed so far and some 10,000 others and 2,500 other buildings are in danger, as is Mount Wilson, the nexus for key telecommunications facilities.

"That site is the nerve center for most of communication in the Los Angeles area," Station Fire Commander Mike Dietrich said. "It is not out of danger as we speak."

Fire commanders said at a news briefing that more than three homes were lost in the Big Tujunga canyon, though they did not know the exact number.

"We have eyewitness reports that our house is gone and as many as 30 may be lost," said Beth Halaas, who lives year-round in the canyon, where most homes are for weekend use. Continued...

I can see the orange glow of the fires from my house, but anyone in the LA Basin (which I think includes Dane) should be fine. Nasty stuff.

i guess some of the new ps3's have been shorting out causing the fires

The air quality is horrendous but we're far from the fires.

Unfortunately, two LA firefighters lost their lives yesterday battling the blaze.

RIP.

The air quality in many parts of the state is unbelievably bad. Bar none, wild fires are the scariest of all the natural disasters in my view.

That shit was sad. Their ****ing truck just rolled down the hill.

One of those firefighters lives up here in the Antelope Valley. His wife was 3 weeks away from giving birth. It's just horrible.

It is with our deepest regret to inform you the media of the Line Of Duty Deaths for Fire Captain Tedmund "Ted" Hall and Firefighter Specialist Arnaldo "Arnie" Quinones. These two members tragically lost their lives when the where overran by a fast moving fire which approached Fire Camp 16 on the "Station Fire" Incident.

Fire Captain Tedmund "Ted" Hall was 47 years of age and was a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department for 26 years and lived in San Bernardino County, California. Firefighter Specialist Arnaldo "Arnie" Quinones was 35 years of Age, and was a member of the Los Angeles County Fire department for 8 years and lived in Palmdale, California.

Funeral arrangements are pending and information relating to services will be made available in the near future.

:(

The thing is going to burn like a mother ****er for a while.

Lots of fuel, good fire conditions, and not a gat damn thing anyone can do about it (except dig line around structures and deploy tankers).

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/article/9348/

This is one of the "favorite side effects" of Algore's fraud. The surface of the US has not warmed at all since 1934, or 40 years before the Global COOLING fraud of the 1970s.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=


Since The FRAUD of Global non-Warming sukks up over $5 bil per year from US Federal taxdollars alone for liars to "study" something clearly not happening - there is precisely no evidence of "warming" at all on planet Earth except on the surface of growing urban areas - there is NOT MONEY for desalination. Every additional Californian steals that much more fresh water from plants and wildlife. The result is dry plant "fuel" for these fires, and another chance for Algore to go out and stick his mug on TV and lie to us again, essentially celebrating this fire catastrophe by intentionally misdiagnosing the problem and preventing funding for the real solution, which is to leave the water in the acquifers, streams, lakes etc. and take ocean water and desalinate it. Many who have been caught starting these fires are from "environmental" groups, or really taxpayer leech groups dedicated to lying to us to continue to steal our money over this "warming" fraud.

You saying the ceanothus, chamise, scrub oak and manzanita wouldn't burn if folks didn't water their lawns and wash their cars from freshwater sources? LMAO

The excess fuel is from fire suppression efforts of the last several hundred years.

The estimated containment date is September 8th, weather cooperating.

Are you attempting to deny that human consumption of fresh water is somehow not related to these fires?

There have always been fires out there. There just have been more as the population of California has exploded, triggering an equally great increase in human fresh water consumption straight from nature.

Amazingly, Denver was "overcast" today from the smoke from this fire. It must be massive.

Good luck, California.

man that sucks-those guys have it tough

RIP