Video of fire in Southern Ca

Robert · Aug 18, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/19/firefighters-attack-huge-california-wildfire-by-air-ground.html

There is more than one video. Video one is over a large fire in Southern CA. I live in Northern CA but have driven highway 15 a few times. I once had a sister living in that fire area and drove to her then house.

What you have there is a lot of sage brush along with plants that seem to survive the desert conditions. Naturally any fire once started has the potential to burn a lot of land. They report a lot of people got moved away to save lives. But keep in mind it is not city. It is very rural.

And no I do not see smoke nor smell it. It is at least a 6 or 7 hr drive for me to be there.

Oh the second video shows the swimmers have the problems at Rio De Janero.

You can get an idea why they got into trouble with the police there.

waltky · Aug 21, 2016

Containment lines around 26 percent of the Blue Cut fire...

Firefighters gain ground on Southern California wildfire
Saturday 20th August, 2016 - Firefighters were gaining ground on Friday against a wildfire burning in a Southern California mountain pass that forced tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes and consumed dozens of structures.

The Blue Cut fire, named for a narrow gorge near its origin in the Cajon Pass about 75 miles (120 km) northeast of Los Angeles, has blackened 37,000 acres (14,973 hectares) of drought-parched heavy brush and chaparral after breaking out on Tuesday. Officials said firefighters were able to carve containment lines around 26 percent of the blaze as of Friday morning - up from 4 percent a day earlier - in dry, hot and windy weather conditions and treacherous terrain. On Friday, damage assessment teams in the field were tallying the number of homes and other buildings destroyed in the blaze, fire information officer Mike Lopez said.

A firefighter hoses down a hot spot at the Blue Cut Fire on August 17, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. An unknown number of homes and businesses have burned and more than 80,000 people are under evacuation orders as the out-of-control wildfire spread beyond 30,000 acres and threatens to expand into the ski resort town of Wrightwood.

A San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman said earlier this week that dozens of structures were destroyed. The intensely burning blaze, which has produced cyclone-like whirls of flame, continued to threaten some 34,500 homes and other structures in communities including the ski resort town of Wrightwood, fire officials said. More than 80,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes on Tuesday. While many residents opted to stay put, the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Office said deputies arrested three people suspected of attempting to loot from the abandoned homes of evacuees.

Transit authorities on Thursday reopened Interstate 15, the primary traffic route between greater Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada, after it was closed for two days by the fast-moving blaze. The Blue Cut fire is one of nearly 30 major blazes reported to have scorched some hundreds of square miles in eight Western states this week, in the midst of a wildfire season stoked by prolonged drought and unusually hot weather, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...spite-fire-danger/article31462907/?cmpid=rss1
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More people go home as progress made against California fire
Saturday 20th August, 2016 - More people returned to their homes Friday as firefighters made significant progress against a huge wildfire burning in Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest, but that was tempered by the announcement that at least 96 homes and 213 outbuildings were destroyed.

Johanna Santore was among those left homeless. She was running an errand Tuesday when the fire charged through her neighbourhood. She tried to rush home to rescue the family's four dogs, six cats and hamster but was blocked by closed roads. Frantic for answers, she posted messages about her pets on Facebook. A group of animal rescue volunteers saw her pleas and offered to check on the animals. They found the house in smouldering ruins - with no signs of the pets. "I'm actually feeling numb," said Santore, who fled with her husband and granddaughter to an evacuation centre. "It's like a nightmare." Thousands of residents chased from their mountain and desert homes were slowly beginning to take stock of their losses as the preliminary damage assessment was released for the blaze that erupted Tuesday in drought-parched canyons 97 kilometres east of Los Angeles.

Firefighters initially struggled to get the towering flames under control but later made dramatic progress in corralling the fire that scorched nearly 150 square kilometres and was 40 per cent contained. Plans were underway to demobilize some of the nearly 1,600 firefighters. "It's looking very good, we took the offensive last night into today," fire spokesman Brad Pitassi said. He said the number of destroyed homes and buildings could have been much higher for such a powerful fire. Katie and Johnathon Havens piled their 1-year-old son and teacup Chihuahua into their RV as flames neared. The Havens thought they had lost everything when a map of the fire was released. They later discovered their house was intact after they were able to access a camera they had placed inside the home. "It's very comforting to know the house is still there," Katie Havens said. "I'm pretty sure we're going to go back and have neighbours who don't have homes anymore. The community is never going to be the same."

A prolonged drought has transformed swaths of California into tinderboxes, ready to ignite. Several other wildfires were burning in the state, including a blaze in rural Santa Barbara County that prompted the evacuation of a pair of campgrounds. In the southern Sierra Nevada, another blaze feeding on dense timber in Sequoia National Forest forced the evacuation of several tiny hamlets. In mountains north of San Francisco, a 15-square-kilometre blaze was 75 per cent contained after destroying 299 structures, including 175 homes and eight businesses, in the working-class community of Lower Lake. All evacuation orders have been cancelled. At the height of the fire east of Los Angeles, some 82,000 people were under evacuation orders. A small number of residents have been allowed to return home, but fire officials could not say when all the evacuations would be lifted. No deaths have been reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation. Crews continued to sift through burned regions to tally the damage.

Michelle Keeney took a double-whammy hit. Not only did the fire level her house, but it also engulfed the Summit Inn, a popular Route 66 diner where she was the general manager. "I was in utter disbelief," said Keeney, who managed to salvage her father's silver ID bracelet and an antique gun he had from the Second World War. Max Torres didn't know whether his house was safe until he and his wife returned Thursday night. A decade ago, another wildfire narrowly missed the couple's home. "They saved our house last time. They saved everything," he said. "And they did it again." The Santores weren't as lucky. Volunteers who drove to their house found a moonscape. Some of the neighbours' homes were still standing, seemingly intact. Before the fire roared through, Johanna Santore had redecorated her granddaughter's room in a zebra pattern and added a loft bed. "We don't plan on rebuilding," she said. "We plan on leaving."

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/more-people-go-home-as-progress-made-against-california-fire-1.3035167
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