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Santa Monica issuing evacuation order
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FunkMiller
Member
Poor bastards. Bush fires are no fucking joke.
Kings Field
Member
Live:
Jinxed
Member
Look up what is causing fires in the last months/year in california. Doubt it's bushes
This is very sad, images are horrible.
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Infrastructure, like the power grid sparking?
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
My best friend lives in Palisades with his small family. He had to evacuate. I pray the fire doesn't take his home or anyone else, but damn... he said it didn't look good.
Jinxed
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Apparently its like 85-100mph wind gusts out there. That is crazy. Fire can spread so fast with that kind of wind. Hope everyone is safe. Mother nature can be a real bitch sometimes.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
My stomach feels nauseated...
Wheeljack539
Member
I have a cousin at the border of Santa Monica and my sister is relatively close in Monrovia. My sister is likely to come over to where we are in the morning but what is another concern is all the smoke in the air and my niece is asthmatic.
Hopefully the winds won't be so bad tomorrow so the firefighters can push back.
Hopefully the winds won't be so bad tomorrow so the firefighters can push back.
FunkMiller
Member
I'm Australian, so the term 'bush fire' is pretty much our go to, to describe this kind of thing.
Jinxed
Member
Ah, sorry, english isn't my main language, I got lost in translation somewhere
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
I read the winds were supposed to peak at 10 pm, tonite, tapering off by 10am in the morning. The revised alert said that the winds would die down by 8pm, tomorrow.
This is something else..luckily in this part of the city that I live in, everyone takes it upon themselves to chop their trees around the fall. We have a huge tree but it's got no leaves so, we're good...
That said, when I got off of work, there was this massive gust of wind and I couldn't see for shit... this is an event of Wind unlike anything I ever seen. We have peoples roof pieces and awnings all over the street, lol... our backyard has debris from other homes, too.
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The Fartist
Gold Member
Fuck I need to sleep, I'm afraid I'll get woken up and be told to evacuate, I'm 20 miles east of DTLA. That Eaton fire isn't exactly far from where I am, I can see it from my street, roughtly 15 miles NW
Wheeljack539
Member
It was so calm this morning too and even got a phone advisory about possible rain in the morning.
LordCBH
Member
I saw videos of a homeless guy setting trash on fire earlier today, so can’t guarantee it was an infrastructure related fire. Good chance it was either a hobo lighting things up, or a non-hobo arsonist too.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
It was... I can't recall when the wind got crazy, but it might have been around 11am-12pm in my area. By the time I emerged from the house to fly to work, I looked back and I believe it's smoke from the Eaton Fire... opposite way is toward LA, and further out.. the Palisades Fire.
LordCBH
Member
What the fuck
Valedix
Member
Yeah fuck that, I hope they all got out okay thats insane.
Wheeljack539
Member
News was just saying that there seems to be another fire starting in the Sun Valley/Burbank Airport area.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Don't wait until it's too late
You're not going to stop a house from burning down so get out while it's safe
You're not going to stop a house from burning down so get out while it's safe
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Jinzo Prime
Member
No thanks, don't need to see that.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
Apparently they were able to safely evacuate later.
digital_ghost
Member
Krato's greatest enemy was fire who knew .
Jokes aside this sucks. Hope you all in California stay safe
Jokes aside this sucks. Hope you all in California stay safe
Robot Carnival
Member
my hood is pretty far from the mountains so I should be fine. but it seems just one city north of us is having some fire right now.
and yeah, it's mainly due to the wind since it had been pretty crazy strong today. and earlier what I thought was some trash cans getting blown around turns out was something else.
and yeah, it's mainly due to the wind since it had been pretty crazy strong today. and earlier what I thought was some trash cans getting blown around turns out was something else.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
FunkMiller
Member
Jesus Christ. Just what you need in an area that’s had no rainfall: bums doing science projects with electricity
The Fartist
Gold Member
Well, just got woken up by my girl, she's packing a bag just in case. We're about 11 miles SW of the Eaton fire, now. It was 15 miles two and a half hours ago. Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. We should've stayed in WA.
Mohonky
Member
Whoa....is it normal for that to happen during winter?
The Fartist
Gold Member
No, this is the worst LA fire ever.
ChuckeRearmed
Gold Member
Does California do any preventive measures for fires like that? Trimming, controlled forest fires etc. I feel like there are fires every year.
Cyberpunkd
Member
You are really going with "fuck the homeless" angle?Jesus Christ. Just what you need in an area that’s had no rainfall: bums doing science projects with electricity
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
That was an accident waiting to happen....
Copycat arsonists? So many fires have been started by these sick people... Here's a guy in Northern California that spent 17 years in jail for arson and when he got out he started doing it again.
Convicted arsonist arraigned on charges of starting two more Northern California wildfires
Donald Shawn Anderson is one of 109 people Cal Fire has arrested on suspicion of arson this year, stemming from brutal wildfires that have raged from summer into fall.
www.latimes.com
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yes, fires around that area/the hills around los angeles are common.
Holy Shit! Did they make it? It seems like there fate is sealed unless there something Im missing?
HoodWinked
Member
I just realized that it's January so these fires are completely out of season.
Mohonky
Member
jumping to conclusions is how the opinionated know things without basis to use tragedies to push their opinion, like the recent terrorist attacks in the US being done by illegal immigrants, until it was discovered they weren't.
