jesus, i'm sorry
where were they told to go after that??
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 07:46 (five years ago) link
They are lucky and have a place to go that's out of the fire zone but I'm sure many people are not that fortunate. 80mph winds currently.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
holy shit, really? that's over hurricane strength
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
Hope they find safe refuge. A friend had to evacuate her place in Chico from the new fire up here. What a brutal season. Calfire must be feeling.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 9 November 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
*reeling
This was <1 hour ago near the area they were told to drive to:
#WoolseyFire Winds are pushing the fire hard in Oak Park now pic.twitter.com/sx5PIgZA4b— Michael Coons (@Michael_Coons) November 9, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link
This is getting pretty bad:
#WoolseyFire: VCFD Station 37 is on Fire. Starting support company (Truck 41)— VC Stringer (@VCStringer) November 9, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
The neighborhood across the 101 Freeway from the Borderline shooting yesterday is now on fire.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Now there appears to be a decent sized fire in Griffith Park.
― omar little, Friday, 9 November 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/video-shows-the-terrifying-drive-to-escape-massive-fire-1830331814
the end of the video when they clear the fire is the shocking part for me
― omar little, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
very sad to hear about the fires
a place that is so dry and up on the mountains and known to have fires though should not have houses (i understand housing was built before fires were a constant there), it's basically a natural disaster area now though
on another note, part of my family used to live in simi valley around 30 years ago -- that place is fucking dreadful and i'm glad they moved out of there
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 9 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
That guy was driving too fast for that little visibility.
Clear skies and no wind at all in Pasadena, I can't even smell smoke.
― nickn, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
I guess when you have flames licking around your wheels you don't care too much about driving too fast.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Well, till you smash into the car ahead of you and then have to walk to safety with a broken leg.
― nickn, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
i mean he's literally running for his life
i would definitely be more careful but yeah
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 9 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
tbf he was driving fast in the wrong lane. only car they could smash into would be a fire truck driving at them, and they'd probably die. fire season sucks. hoping the best for those caught up in it this year.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 November 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
yeah i imagine the sheer adrenaline makes for a lead foot
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Understandable, but I was white-knuckling sitting in my office watching it.
― nickn, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
I was going to complain about a SoCal thread being bumped for a NorCal fire but that's before I knew the entire state is burning.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Massive-Camp-Fire-forces-red-air-alert-prompts-13377739.php
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
p fucking grim in SF right now
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
heavy smoke and some ash
― Dan S, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
I think it's worse than last year's fire, as today I could smell the smoke when I was at home.
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
my heart goes out to those having to leave their homes
― the sound of space, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
P100 masks, y'all
― sleeve, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Words fail me. This is the Woolsey Fire approaching Malibu as people desparately are trying to evacuate on PCH. pic.twitter.com/rdJGvbu7kN— Spin Doctor (@SpinDr) November 9, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
This is Zuma Beach right now. Photo from @ktla5news #ZumaBeach #WoolsyFire #Malibu @Amie_Yancey pic.twitter.com/COVm9WA9HY— Scott Yancey (@Scott_Yancey) November 10, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
up in Butte County
These abandoned and burned out cars shows you what a panic it must have been for residents trying to escape the Camp Fire. Unreal scenes in Paradise, CA, this morning. #CampFire pic.twitter.com/AhBuWzS0Tx— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) November 9, 2018
― Dan S, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
5 people found dead in their cars most likely on that very same road.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
jesus
― brownie, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
our friend's aunt lives in Paradise and is suffering from Alzheimer's, she was home alone at the time of the fire picking up steam and her son couldn't get to her in time. A neighbor tried to get her out but she wasn't answering and he had to flee. There's still no word.
meanwhile:
Pray for Malibu— and #TheBachelor Mansion... pic.twitter.com/D9t8VxFXeo— Mike Fleiss (@fleissmeister) November 9, 2018
― omar little, Saturday, 10 November 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
Is there a German word to describe the feeling of waiting to see if your father-in-law's house burned down? (he's fine, don't know about the place)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 November 2018 06:41 (five years ago) link
Llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand on the beach in #Malibu as the #WoolseyFire approaches. Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Timeshttps://t.co/X8PtsdblHP pic.twitter.com/dvAq6LWSxv— JJ the Santa Barbarian (@cookiesinheaven) November 10, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 11 November 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
#tfw when life is a tarkovsky film pic.twitter.com/K9EEGKQAyM— Tovarisch (@nwbtcw) November 10, 2018
― flappy bird, Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
my grandmother & her husband were evacuated and their house is probably gone. but they're fine. everyone else I know in LA - one of my best friends, my grandfather + his wife, other friends - live outside of the danger zone but say that the city is truly apocalyptic now. I heard the Santa Monica Pier was gone?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link
I think someone fed you bad intel, the city of L.A. itself is fairly business as usual albeit very smoky. Santa Monica Pier is perfectly ok. Malibu (15+ miles up the coast from Santa Monica) is what’s apocalyptic.
― omar little, Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
Not to diminish what’s happening at all; the fire going from the ocean to west hills is astonishing to me. It’s coming scarily close to my wife’s dad’s home.
― omar little, Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
F-I-L’s place in Point Dume survived! Seems like everything across the street from him burned down though. Fingers crossed for other folks here and hope for some good news.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
Higher winds coming tomorrow...
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 11 November 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
no words
― sleeve, Sunday, 11 November 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
WATCH: Screaming DC-10 air tanker drops Phos-Check over #WoolseyFire in Calabasas https://t.co/iBgAWLyr9d pic.twitter.com/lZzI4GXexK— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 11, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 12 November 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
was hanging out today with a friend whose dad lived in Paradise: house gone, got his three dogs out, no clothes or anything else.
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
Some beautiful shots on ig but just no
― calstars, Monday, 12 November 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
PG&E has informed state regulators that it experienced an incident early Thursday on a major electrical transmission line at a remote site in Butte County just minutes before the reported start of the devastating Camp Fire.In a brief report filed with the California Public Utilities Commission, the company said a power outage was recorded on its 115-kilovolt Caribou-Palermo line at 6:15 a.m. Thursday. Cal Fire says the blaze started at 6:29 a.m.Driven by high winds in the Feather River Canyon, the Camp Fire raced west, destroying parts of the the communities of Paradise and Magalia. So far, 23 people are confirmed dead in the fire, which had burned a staggering 6,453 homes and 120,000 acres as of Sunday morning.
In a brief report filed with the California Public Utilities Commission, the company said a power outage was recorded on its 115-kilovolt Caribou-Palermo line at 6:15 a.m. Thursday. Cal Fire says the blaze started at 6:29 a.m.
Driven by high winds in the Feather River Canyon, the Camp Fire raced west, destroying parts of the the communities of Paradise and Magalia. So far, 23 people are confirmed dead in the fire, which had burned a staggering 6,453 homes and 120,000 acres as of Sunday morning.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah it was that which started those massive Black Saturday fires we had here in 2009 (the ones that wiped a couple of towns clean off the map). Winds + high voltage lines + poor maintenance = hell.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 12 November 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
Also the Ventura fires last year?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 12 November 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
Tubbs fire:
The Tubbs Fire was the second-most destructive wildfire in California history, behind only the Camp Fire of 2018,[6][4] burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties in Northern California during October 2017, and affecting the city of Santa Rosa the most.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 12 November 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
there's a massive fire every year in southern california. its 'normal' now.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 12 November 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Thought this was a good thread:
It continues to frustrate me how badly people misunderstand California wildfires. I have mentioned previously here the amplifying role of population growth, and the causal ignition trigger of development at the urban-wilderness interface, but the fuel itself is key.— Paul Kedrosky (@pkedrosky) November 10, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 November 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
42 now confirmed dead in Camp Fire
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
What a terrifying tragedy. It's days later and there are still a hundred unaccounted for.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link