Fire season already.

I was going to start a general fire thread, but this seems like a better place than Breaking News.

12/7/17
Today looks like the crux of the current wind-driven nightmare in SoCal. My Ojai bro's family came back home after VE, but they might have to evac again today.

Pulling for favorable breaks to keep harm from people, property and animals. Good luck, guys. Keep your eyes peeled and default to getting on the phone rather than sweating a false alarm.

Thanks; keep safe. :notworthy::thumbsup:
 
Sure enough, 4am LE going door to door in my friends Ojai neighborhood with mandatory evac orders.

A pic from his rooftop last night. He's close to the Meiner's Oaks part of town.

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A ranch lost 30 horse, burned to death. They decided that since the fires always bypassed them in the past, that it couldn't happen to them.

Fire department woke them up and told them to get out now, so they did. Never made contingency plans.
 
Sidewalk said:
A ranch lost 30 horse, burned to death. They decided that since the fires always bypassed them in the past, that it couldn't happen to them.

Fire department woke them up and told them to get out now, so they did. Never made contingency plans.
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Yeah, such a tragedy. And, if you watch the video after the fact, you'll see that some of the horse owners put locks on the stalls. How can anyone save your horse if you put a lock on it's stall?? So profoundly sad :cry:
 
horsebikerider said:
Yeah, such a tragedy. And, if you watch the video after the fact, you'll see that some of the horse owners put locks on the stalls. How can anyone save your horse if you put a lock on it's stall?? So profoundly sad :cry:
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I know I am more on the paranoid side, so it is hard for me to be unbiased. But after years and years of drills on the ship, standing watches, always being prepared, and "loss of situational awareness" being a causal factor of so many accidents, it angers me to see something like this so preventable because "we didn't think it could happen to us".

Yeah, I saw the video with the chained gate, it was disturbing.
 
Faust29 said:
A friend just posted this. :thumbsdown: Screenshot from his video... Presently 1,000 acres.

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Here's more on the Liberty Fire in Murrieta: https://patch.com/california/banning-beaumont/murrieta-area-fire-breaks-out

https://patch.com/california/murrie...e-purple-warning-75-mph-winds-forecast-nearby

Wind was crazy weird: Huge gusts with debris everywhere near downtown Redlands. I saw a huge palm let loose with what must be at least a ton of dead fronds about 50 ft from me. But out in the canyon a few miles away, absolutely still and perfect riding weather.
 
Rumpled said:
And in good fire recovery news.
http://www.ocparks.com/parks/canyon_fire_2

J and others will be happy with part of Santiago Oaks opening Sat 12/09/17
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Yes, but no. I'll be staying out for a while. Gonna let the park heal more before I go in. People went to Todd Spitzer and got him to go over OC Parks and open the park early. Apparently that group was too lazy to find other places to ride in OC. Disappointing.
 
The ranch where I used to live and board in Oceanside was ordered out. By the time I learned it was too late to help. Another friend in the area I think is voluntarily leaving with her horse.
 
Cyclotourist said:
Here's more on the Liberty Fire in Murrieta: https://patch.com/california/banning-beaumont/murrieta-area-fire-breaks-out

https://patch.com/california/murrie...e-purple-warning-75-mph-winds-forecast-nearby

Wind was crazy weird: Huge gusts with debris everywhere near downtown Redlands. I saw a huge palm let loose with what must be at least a ton of dead fronds about 50 ft from me. But out in the canyon a few miles away, absolutely still and perfect riding weather.
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That picture was from the Lilac fire... Farther south from the Liberty fire. And presently 4100 acres. :thumbsdown:
 
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To put these current fires in historical perspective, consider this:

October 8, 1871 - The great fire of Chicago starts, in legend by a kick from Mrs. O'Leary's cow, although in actuality likely started in their cowshed by Daniel Sullivan who first reported the fire. The fire caused $196 million in damages. It burned 1.2 million acres of land, destroyed 17,450 buildings, killed 250 people, and left 90,000 homeless. Starting on the same day as the Chicago fire and overshadowed by its legend, a fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin spreads across six counties in one day, and kills 1,200 to 2,500 people, making it the deadliest fire in United States history.

http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1870.html
 
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