Fire/EMS/ERs/disasters, etc.

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Bummer, let us know how they fare.

They bugged out to a friend's house in Highland Park last night, about seven miles southwest. So far their house is OK. Step sis is supposed to fly home today.

AFAIK lax is running mostly on time.

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Same guy that blamed California for not "sweeping the floors" of the forests to prevent fires a few years ago.

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Same guy that blamed California for not "sweeping the floors" of the forests to prevent fires a few years ago.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1877042002409275823

Moron.

Ah shit.

My step brother, sis in law, step sis (vistiting him from Chicago), niece are under mandatory evacuation.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire

Bummer, let us know how they fare.
2,227 Acres 10,600 Acres, yikes!
Last Updated 01/08/2025 6:09 AM (PST, very current)
1:21 PM.
Nursing homes, schools, businesses, entire neighborhoods per TV news.
Can you compare their address to the fire map, or have they updated you?

Timelapse shows rapid spread of Palisades wildfire

Timelapse footage from the University of California San Diego shows the wildfire's explosive growth between Tuesday morning and afternoon.

The blaze grew from 10 acres to more than 2,900 acres in mere hours, while a plume of smoke billows over the city.

Those winds! The smoke is horizontal and even loses altitude.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/ ... on-warning
2,921 Acres 15,832 Acres
Last Updated 01/08/2025 5:16 AM 1:23 PM
Looks like Dad's home is still there, but the fire is mere feet away.
Massive expansion of the mandatory evacuation and evacuation warning zones. This will get worse.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/live/los-ang ... 55849.html

Eaton Fire death toll rises to 5 ...

After destroying roughly 1,000 homes and buildings, the Palisades Fire — which has not been contained by the California Fire Department — is now the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, the Associated Press reported....

Good thing your people got away.

[O Really]

Now 170,000* on evacuation notice. Pic of lifeguard stations burning on Malibu beach. Not the most valuable loss, but a sad marker of how big this (these) fire is.

https://www.instagram.com/310fire/reel/DEkzTMeyOJJ/

* Edit: local TV put up "170,000" just before I posted. I think actual number is 70,000.

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Now 170,000 on evacuation notice. Pic of lifeguard stations burning on Malibu beach. Not the most valuable loss, but a sad marker of how big this (these) fire is.

https://www.instagram.com/310fire/reel/DEkzTMeyOJJ/

TV news video: PCH is a fire tunnel.
Fta I linked above: "California power outages top 1.5 million"
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... AFAIK lax is running mostly on time.

That may not last. My brother says that Santa Monica, where he grew up, is now being evacuated. LAX is further east, but smoke may be disruptive.

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This should be part of what is called "rainy season" where we should get, on average, 5 days of rain. It hasn't rained in months, not significantly since last year around this time. It's very dry everywhere, so it doesn't take much to set off a fire.

UCLA climate scientist explains 'why we are where we are right now'

In a Wednesday briefing with reporters, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain laid out the scenario that has given rise to the intense wildfire activity sweeping the Los Angeles area.

"Lack of rain and the anomalous warmth leading up to the present and recent months in Southern California is what has precipitated this crisis," Swain said, adding, "Had it rained a nice inch or two, even a below-average but above-zero amount in recent weeks, we would not be seeing these catastrophic fires in January."

Since May, the National Weather Service said, downtown Los Angeles has received just 0.16 inches of rain. Even though the area has seen wet winters for the past two years, that helped vegetation grow that quickly dried out as drought conditions developed, Swain said.

"Because we had this sequence of extraordinarily wet conditions for the past two years that resulted in abundant growth of grass and brush throughout Southern California and then experienced this wet-to-dry whiplash event with a very wet season being followed by the driest season [this autumn] on record, being punctuated across inland areas by the hottest summer on record," he said.

Rising global temperatures have increased the rate of evaporation in vegetation, producing more potent fuel for wildfires.

"We have vegetation that is extremely dry, unusually, historically so in some cases for the time of year, and that confluence of that extremely dry vegetation conditions plus an unusually strong Santa Ana wind event is why we are where we are right now," Swain said.

Not that their tragedies are worse than others', but celeb homes destroyed include:
Leighton Meester
Heidi Montag
James Woods (maybe)
I'm sure there will be many more, these are ones that ET just mentioned.

Inside Edition: Most destructive wildfire in California history!

[O Really]

Criticism of the firefighters should not be political at all. Cal Fire and all the local organizations are some of the best trained, best equipped and funded, and most competent, dedicated and bravest people around. Assholes who make it political should have their own houses burn, maybe with them in it.

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Criticism of the firefighters should not be political at all. Cal Fire and all the local organizations are some of the best trained, best equipped and funded, and most competent, dedicated and bravest people around. Assholes who make it political should have their own houses burn, maybe with them in it.

Who is criticizing the firefighters? What I've seen is that there just aren't enough of them for this unprecedented event.

Assholes who contributed to AGW denial should stfu, Dolt .45.

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Step sis got out OK, actually landing in about ten minutes.

Watching CNN for the first time in months, Anderson Cooper is broadcasting relatively close to my step bro's house. Not promising.

Waiting to hear from him, texted this morning but nothing since.

[O Really]

Maybe there haven't been many criticizing the firefighters, but I've seen comments about them not being prepared, and some guy on (I think) CNN saying something like "why haven't they been able to get this under control? Were they slow to deploy, or aren't trained?". Shouldn't even be a remote concern. It's not like fires aren't a common part of life. Tinder dry vegetation, 20%humidity and hurricane force wind - fighting an urban fire with panicked traffic and substantial hills. And this guy asks about preparation or training?

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Maybe there haven't been many criticizing the firefighters, but I've seen comments about them not being prepared, and some guy on (I think) CNN saying something like "why haven't they been able to get this under control? Were they slow to deploy, or aren't trained?". Shouldn't even be a remote concern. It's not like fires aren't a common part of life. Tinder dry vegetation, 20%humidity and hurricane force wind - fighting an urban fire with panicked traffic and substantial hills. And this guy asks about preparation or training?

Same type of idiots that ask why cops don't shoot the gun out of a perp's hand.

Also, one inch of rain in the last eight months.

Where are you guys?

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Where are you guys?

Hundred miles south of the fires in Oceanside. San Diego County, at least the part where people live, was spared the worst of the wind, but toward the mountains it was up in the 60's plus. Fortunately no fires yet.

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Where are you guys?

Hundred miles south of the fires in Oceanside. San Diego County, at least the part where people live, was spared the worst of the wind, but toward the mountains it was up in the 60's plus. Fortunately no fires yet.

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Ditto for your fam. They haven't changed the Eaton Fire acreage since yesterday morning, 10,600 Acres. Expect a big jump sometime today.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire

Palisades Fire is now 17,234 Acres. Dad's house is gone.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/ ... on-warning

Hollywood Hills fire breaks out as deadly wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area

Can be found on the Pacific Palisades fire map. Just drag east.
Orange - fire (progressively duller for recent expansion)
Brown - Mandatory evacuation (down to Hollywood Blvd )
Light Green - Evacuation warning

A fast-moving fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night, threatening one of Los Angeles' most iconic spots as firefighters battled to get under control three other major blazes that killed five people, put 130,000 people under evacuation orders and ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena.

The Sunset Fire was burning near the Hollywood Bowl and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The streets around Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and Madame Tussauds were packed with stop-and-go traffic as sirens blared and low-flying helicopters soared by on their way to dump water on the flames. People toting suitcases left hotels on foot, while some onlookers walked toward the flames, recording the fire on their phones....

In Pasadena, Fire Chief Chad Augustin said between 200 and 500 structures have been damaged or lost from the Eaton Fire that started Tuesday night....

Mandy Moore, Cary Elwes and Paris Hilton are among the stars who said Wednesday they lost homes.

Billy Crystal and his wife Janice lost their home of 45 years in the Palisades Fire....

for celeb and commoner alike.

Speaking of disasters . . .


GOP Promotes Trump’s Greenland Fantasy While Fires Rage in LA | The Daily Show

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Ditto for your fam. They haven't changed the Eaton Fire acreage since yesterday morning, 10,600 Acres. Expect a big jump sometime today.

Heard from my step brother late last night, they're safe but needed to move from Highland Park due to fire expansion. They were planning on friends in Hollywood then the sunset Fire started....they had an option in Long Beach I think they were going to take. At least the air there is breathable.

They were also able to get back to there house briefly and miraculously it was one of two houses still standing. There were still embers in the area so the were able to hose it down and are hoping for the best. I'm sure moving back in anytime soon won't be happening. Besides the neighborhood being trashed there's got to be a ton of smoke damage inside.

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Heard from my step brother late last night, they're safe but needed to move from Highland Park due to fire expansion. They were planning on friends in Hollywood then the sunset Fire started....they had an option in Long Beach I think they were going to take. At least the air there is breathable.

They were also able to get back to there house briefly and miraculously it was one of two houses still standing. There were still embers in the area so the were able to hose it down and are hoping for the best. I'm sure moving back in anytime soon won't be happening. Besides the neighborhood being trashed there's got to be a ton of smoke damage inside.

I didn't know that there's a Highland Park, CA. I thought they had escaped to Illinois. If everything has burned around their home it may create a firebreak that protects it from here on out. Fingers crossed.

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Heard from my step brother late last night, they're safe but needed to move from Highland Park due to fire expansion. They were planning on friends in Hollywood then the sunset Fire started....they had an option in Long Beach I think they were going to take. At least the air there is breathable.

They were also able to get back to there house briefly and miraculously it was one of two houses still standing. There were still embers in the area so the were able to hose it down and are hoping for the best. I'm sure moving back in anytime soon won't be happening. Besides the neighborhood being trashed there's got to be a ton of smoke damage inside.

I didn't know that there's a Highland Park, CA. I thought they had escaped to Illinois. If everything has burned around their home it may create a firebreak that protects it from here on out. Fingers crossed.

Still plenty of smoldering in the neighborhood. Hopefully the wind stays calmer.

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Still plenty of smoldering in the neighborhood. Hopefully the wind stays calmer.

Recovery may be somewhat imperiled.

A tale of two presidents: How L.A. fires show the difference between Biden and Trump

Joe -
TRE45QN -

[O Really]

An acre is a decent measure for a residential or commercial property, or some farmers' fields, but why do they report fires in acres? They're saying the Palisades fire is 17,000 acres. I have no idea how big that is. Oh yeah, Alexa says it's about 26 square miles or some variation of 3 miles wide and 8 miles long, or 5 miles square. Makes a lot more vivid understanding of the huge range of this. And that's just one of the fires.