LA wildfire

[ghi]

I captured this pics today driving through Los Angeles,this huge cloud of smoke was visible from over 100 miles away, but as i got closer was looking more scary, the  smoke was moving  in high desert  all the way to Nevada . I hope you guys living in la LA area, get some heavy rain soon.

[RTHolmes]

I thought they started doing controlled burns in California a few years back to minimise the chances of an inferno?

[JunkyII]

I thought they started doing controlled burns in California a few years back to minimise the chances of an inferno?

I dont think its working

[Anaxogoras]

The likelihood of rain in September anywhere in CA except the Sierra Nevada is very low.  What the fire fighters depend on is favorable wind.

[Dragon]

All those poor, poor trees.   



Hug a tree today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33EFxVoDXAs

[oakranger]

I thought they started doing controlled burns in California a few years back to minimise the chances of an inferno?

They do but a lot of places are ruff terrain to do it and development in the way or to close to do it.  Personally, this is what they get for building houses on slops and not aloud the burn go.  It is all a matter of time before mother nature release her inferno.  I do hope they do stop it from doing anymore damage.

[lagger86]

Yeah the conditions right now in both Northern and southern California are bad. My mom lost her home in a fire in Auburn Ca(placer county) on Sunday. The blaze took about fifteen minutes to take out half of her entire subdivision(50 something houses). Just amazing what a fast moving wildfire under the right conditions(heat and wind) can do.

[68Wooley]

Screw earthquakes - wildfires are the thing that really scare me out here. The sad thing is that the majority of these fires are deliberately started.

I think some cruel and unusual punishment might be appropriate for anyone caught fire-starting.

[Ack-Ack]

I thought they started doing controlled burns in California a few years back to minimise the chances of an inferno?

The only ones doing controlled burns in California seem to be the arsonists that come out this time of year.
 
My car looks like someone poured ash on it, it's covered in the stuff.  Sky is golden and hazy and it is actually starting to hurt to breath a little.  Now that the two large fires have joined, there is some fear that we might have a repeat of the Malibu fires a couple of years ago.  No rain in the forecast, but it's supposed to cool down some with temps in the 90s and humidity is supposed to rise, that might help some.  Saw video on the local news of a 747 being used for the first time to drop fire retardant on the blaze.  The Angeles Forest fire is the one that is the largest and most out of control, it's burning in a part of the forest that hasn't seen a fire in over 60 years.  Lucky for my fiancee and I that we moved into a larger house, have some friends that live in Tuhunga Canyon that are staying with us until they're given the okay to go back to their home (which was spared).

Earthquakes and fires, just a small price to pay to live in Paradise.


ack-ack

[Dinan]

Glad to hear the Evergreen Supertanker is working it along side of these guys.  



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_jqZpd1xo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzQ32ngw8E

[Seraphim]

It was worse last year, because of the high winds - gusts up to 70mph. My old home was 3 miles from the foothills, and we were getting embers flying by, I heard the fires across the valley were also started from the embers flying across.
This year is large because of the inaccessibility of the mountain area, and like ack-ack said, some areas that haven't burned in 60+ years....some up too 100+ years.

[Denholm]

Wow, some amazing pictures considering they were taken from such a distance.

Here's a question for you all in California... I once heard that some decades ago Foresters and people in similar organizations would go into the woods to clean out debris such as dying vegetation, rotten trees, fallen trees, etc... Was that true and if so are they still cleaning out the forests same as they once were?

[John Curnutte]

 Last year was horrible for me as the fires where very close and the smoke burned your eyes and the sky was black . This year is better its on the other side of the valley from me . But its a bad one either way and I hope everyone is ok and in good shape .
                       Nutte

[Seraphim]

Wow, some amazing pictures considering they were taken from such a distance.

Here's a question for you all in California... I once heard that some decades ago Foresters and people in similar organizations would go into the woods to clean out debris such as dying vegetation, rotten trees, fallen trees, etc... Was that true and if so are they still cleaning out the forests same as they once were?

That was mostly up north, but it was stopped some time ago, as it was proved that the decaying vegetation was actually beneficial, when removed the forest would do worse off. I went to Muir woods last year, there are signs to not remove any thing on the ground at all, not even for souvenirs.
Today's smoke is blocking out the sun where I live today, ash is falling like snow. And it's humid. Yuck.

[Die Hard]

Jesus... Almost looks like someone nuked the place.