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California has been through a lot the last few days...
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I grew up in Paradise - no longer live there having left after college.
Still many friends there.
The town is destroyed - 80% of homes burnt or damaged. It’s a town of about 30,000 so the Cal Fire report of 6500 homes destroyed sounds about right.
Sad times - many memories
That’s terrible. Sorry for these poor people !
Also, several guys from up that area said some pretty bad stuff that is not being reported in the news about what happened up there. Absolutely gut wrenching...
Very suspicious things in recent fires, not sure on this one.
I lived in yuba city marysville which isnt to far from there.
Pyromaniacs out there for sure, but, I read yesterday the big power company out there might be the culprit on this one,
Apparently a big overhead power line in the area indicated a problem at like 6:15, and the first fire reports started coming in like 15 minutes later.
PGE (the power co) now shuts power off anytime a chance of high winds. People in some of these towns like Napa, Santa Rosa and even in the Sierras lose there power for a couple day's. It's a bad situation!
Pit Row
So, the post with a political comeback for this gets taken down, and this stays up?
There was actually another one in Fallbrook CA today. They caught the guy soon after he started it. He had a rap sheet a mile long.
Fire starter
I like how they blame natural causes, and then when you see people have to actually start a fire on any of those survival shows and it is extremely hard to do.
In this case it is not 'bad forest management', though that is a topic for a later day.
In this case it is not an arsonist, also a topic for another day.
In this case it is a 'firestorm'. In a firestorm there is nothing anybody can do... Think hurricane and replace water with fire.
Vital automatically like "it's the government!!!! it's a conspiracy!!!!!!!!!!!!"
To me maybe they better start letting the Loggers go back to work and clear some of these forests out.
2.25 billion spent this year ? This is the new war on drugs, maybe they won't want the fires to totally go away.
The Santa Rosa a year or so ago was largely seasonal native chaparral and oak woodlands, probably more like the Malibu fire. It's not a heavily wooded area. If you looked at the residential neighborhood before and after pics, many of those neighborhoods didn't have a lot of vegetation; the superheated air blowing through ahead of the flames front spontaneously combusted structures. We're not talking areas required to have a 100' feet of clearance around structures, which is useless if wind is blowing embers miles downwind and
I watched firefighters put down a similar flare up at a steep canyon in short order not far from Paradise a summer ago. No wind. Hard work, challenging terrain, they got it done with a modest crew and a helicopter.
Fires create their own furnaces as it is, sucking in air like pinned two stroke. Add the wind and getting out of the way is about all that is left to you.
This was a pretty sobering graphic of how the Paradise fire unfolded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/amp-stories/how-t…
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