Fires in Simi Valley

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited October 1, 2005 in The Big Picture
Well, this is what I woke up to this morning. I'm in a big rush to get the kids off to school as well, so no processing or thought to much of anything other than just getting these up really quickly.


Not a great view, but literally the view from my front steps.
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It's raining ash

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    A few more:

    The view from school:

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    and a few I took through the windshield while...um...driving...

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    holy cow!
    are the fires under control?

    anyone in danger?
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    More info here.

    It's over 7,000 acres, I heard that at one point 70 homes were threatened.
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  • pmccurdypmccurdy Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins
    edited September 29, 2005
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    andy wrote:
    holy cow!
    are the fires under control?

    anyone in danger?
    Less than 5% contained.

    Another large one here in Riverside County that is only about 25% contained.

    Gotta feel for the firefighters. It's in the high 90's and bone dry.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    Bit of a worry David. What do you blokes do...water bomb ?

    Everyones back burning like crazy here as the season is starting.
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    Very creepy. I've only been in LA a couple of years and still have trouble seeing whole hillsides on fire so close to major population centers.
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2005
    More on the subject
    http://rommae.smugmug.com/gallery/844640 (a friend of a friend)
    http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/846000 (mine)
    I also mapped it.
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • KalamataKalamata Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    I know just how the residents must feel, hope they get thru it ok. we lost our house several years ago just after boxing day in a bush fire

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    Kalamata wrote:
    I know just how the residents must feel, hope they get thru it ok. we lost our house several years ago just after boxing day in a bush fire


    I can't imagine. But our house backs up onto open space. If the brush fires were behind our house, we may very well end up in the same boat. Sorry to hear about your loss. A house and its contents are so very personal. What a tremendous loss.
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  • KalamataKalamata Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    I can't imagine. But our house backs up onto open space. If the brush fires were behind our house, we may very well end up in the same boat. Sorry to hear about your loss. A house and its contents are so very personal. What a tremendous loss.

    We were lucky in one regard, we downsized several years before the fire as all the kids (5) had moved out. All the personal stuff that help make a family what it is photos letters etc were in storage. Thanks for fixing the link
    Ed
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