LA & Ventura Fires

[Toroid]

Yesterday on the news the LAFD said they were expecting 80 mph winds and to sleep with one eye opened. We somehow lucked-out and the winds didn't reach that level.
Incredible photos of Cali wildfires seen from SPACE | Daily Mail Online

• Hundreds of square miles of Southern California are at 'extreme' risk of wildfires today, experts have warned

• Gusts from strong Santa Ana winds can make fires uncontrollable or carry embers for miles to dry grass

• Firefighters managed to make some gains against the fires on Wednesday but those could be lost today

• Five fires - including the Skirball fire that burned Bel Air houses Wednesday - are still being fought

• The largest fire - the Thomas Fire near Ventura - has covered more than 140 square miles of land

• No people have been killed but 29 horses were killed after the Creek Fire swept through a ranch near Sylmar

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5154893/California-wind-fire-danger-hits-unprecedented-high.html#ixz0bFbPW9I
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[Castle-Yankee54]

Can't say as I'm surprised......it will probably keep burning in California and all along the border.

 

[Toroid]

California fires resemble erupting volcano.
Apocalyptic mushroom cloud spotted above California | Daily Mail Online

• The Pyrocumulus cloud, which resembled an erupting volcano or a nuclear bomb, was seen above the San Ynez Mountains of western Ventura County in the Los Padres National Forest, near Santa Barbara

• The weather phenomenon, also known as a fire cloud, stretched up almost 30,000 feet high

• Eric Boldt, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, said it's similar to a thunderstorm and could be responsible for helping spread the Thomas Wildfire

• On Sunday, the Calfire grew 50,000 acres to 230,000 acres. It is now the fifth worst fire in Californian history

• Thousands of firefighters were battling the blaze on Monday as it crept relentlessly up the Pacific coast and forced new evacuations

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5169625/Apocalyptic-mushroom-cloud-spotted-California.html#ixz14PkYd
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[nivek]

What was the cause of these huge fires?...

 

[Toroid]

What was the cause of these huge fires?...

One of the several fires burning was caused by a homeless encampment possibly from a stove.

 

[Toroid]

California fires bear down on Oprah's celebrity enclave | Daily Mail Online

• Massive Thomas Fire named third largest in California history Saturday at 259,000 acres and 40% contained

• New evacuation ordered for Oprah Winfrey's celebrity enclave of Montecito in Santa Barbara County

• Actor Rob Lowe and Ellen DeGeneres also forced to evacuate as flames bear down on wealthy community

• Thousands more flee as voluntary evacuation zones are extended into downtown Santa Barbara

• One of the thousands of firefighters was killed Thursday - the second fatality in the Thomas blaze

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5186969/California-fires-bear-Oprahs-celebrity-enclave.html#ixz1UPqcNsO
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[SOUL-DRIFTER]

Not to belittle their dilemma but wasn't California the state that wanted to succeed from the United States. And are they not still rallying to do that?
I say lets go ahead with it and they can fund their own disaster relief.
Sorry for that...but.. the stupid liberal side of that state, seriously irks me....

 

[August]

Not to belittle their dilemma but wasn't California the state that wanted to succeed from the United States. And are they not still rallying to do that?
I say lets go ahead with it and they can fund their own disaster relief.
Sorry for that...but.. the stupid liberal side of that state, seriously irks me....

That's true it is what they wanted , what will be will be , as far as funding their own relief goes.

 

[nivek]

One of the several fires burning was caused by a homeless encampment possibly from a stove.

So these reports of seeing lasers is all bs?...

 

[Toroid]

So these reports of seeing lasers is all bs?...

I've heard rumors of lasers being used.

 

[Toroid]

New evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Santa Barbara County. Homes in Montecito are being threatened by the blaze and winds are reaching 65 mph.
Hundreds of homes in Montecito threatened as winds push Thomas fire toward coast; new evacuations

 

[August]

Do they ever do back burning in these fire prone areas , I mean we do it here to reduce the vegetation undergrowth and leaf litter to help prevent a massive blaze down the track.

 

[Toroid]

Do they ever do back burning in these fire prone areas , I mean we do it here to reduce the vegetation undergrowth and leaf litter to help prevent a massive blaze down the track.

Yes, that's common practice here. Some of the areas haven't burned in 50 years.

 

[Toroid]

The Thomas fire burning in Southern California is now the largest fire in state history.
California's Thomas wildfire now largest in state history

The blaze known as the Thomas fire in Southern California is now the largest in the state’s recorded history, fire officials said Saturday evening.

The Thomas fire has scorched 273,400 acres, or about 427 square miles of coastal foothills and national forest.
That makes the Thomas fire 154 acres larger than the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego that killed 15 people, officials said.

Thousands of firefighters and fleets of aircraft have been battling the Thomas blaze since Dec. 4. A firefighter and a woman fleeing the blaze died.

Days of unrelenting hot, gusty winds drive it through Ventura neighborhoods, incinerating entire blocks, and threatened the wealthy enclave of Montecito.

By Friday, however, humidity was higher, temperatures were cooler and the fire threat to homes in many areas eased. The fire continued to move slowly through forest but the blaze was 65 percent contained.

Fire officials said Saturday that any new growth in the Thomas fire will probably be attributed to controlled burns by firefighters, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“The main fire itself will not have any growth,” said Capt. Brandon Vaccaro of the California City Fire Department told the newspaper.

California’s list of worst fires dates only to the 1930s, but an 1889 fire in parts of Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties is considered by many to be the state's worst fire, the Los Angeles Times reported.