Any information about the Pacific Palisades Fire

[serene911]

Looks pretty bad. Anybody nearby to report on it. Speeder ?

[stealthn]

Here’s a live report: https://www.youtube.com/live/59hLkc6FDvQ?feature=shared

[pwd72s]

I'm amazed no one has posted about this. Looking massive and horrible on Fox. Hope all our sou cal board members are okay.

(edit) Mods, please delete...redundant...sorry.

[Evans, Marv]

It's a tragic soituation. The whole of SoCal is having a dry season - the driest in decades. I'm hoping we won't have the whole place catch fire.

[JavaBrewer]

We are North end of San Diego on a hill. It’s very dry and the winds are pretty strong. I don’t stress about this often but the lack of rain here is more pronounced this year, not since 8-10 years ago was it this dry. Last winter we were drenched with rain.

[Evans, Marv]

Yep, we're going to have a power shutoff, as I assume you might too. Right now the wind is moving at 2mph. I[m hoping for luck. The shot of the dozer pushing cars out of the way to get emergency vehicles through was definitely sobering.

[speeder]

It's awful. I do not live in the affected area but I have close friends who have almost certainly lost their homes. The winds are almost unbelievable right now...there are huge trees down on my block and the freeway was covered in leaves and trash blowing around. About the strongest winds I've ever seen in 40+ years of living here.

The Palisades are an incredibly beautiful area with mountains and hills everywhere, homes are on bluffs over the ocean. I first heard of the area back in the '70s, before I moved to California, because Reagan lived there. I just thought that the name sounded like a gorgeous place and it is. Santa Monica canyon and Rustic Canyon in between the Palisades and SM are some of the nicest RE in the USA and it's completely torched. It's where I lived back in the '80s.

To pour salt on it, a new fire has just started in Altadena, (near Pasadena in the NE part of LA), in a heavily wooded mountain area. With the wind as it is, any fire has all of the elements to be quickly out of control. The air quality is seriously dangerous.

[speeder]

All fire fighting aircraft grounded because of wind turbulence. Worst fire in many decades...maybe ever. Beach houses in Malibu completely torched and burn victims walking down PCH. Hell on earth.

[speeder]

Hundreds of people abandoned their cars and started walking because of complete traffic gridlock. They interviewed a woman who did it and she just assumed that her car was going to burn.

Any fire fighters in the world are watching this and seeing an absolute worst case scenario.

[Eric at Pelican Parts]

I’m near the Eaton fire and we’re currently on standby to prepare for evacuation. It’s going to be one hell of a night.

[varmint]

[Eric at Pelican Parts]

Trying to catch some sleep while I still can. Friends and family have started to evacuate. We haven’t received the order yet. Stay safe everybody

[KFC911]

You guys be safe! I haven't had the news on (yet) so I haven't seen any coverage.

Pure hell ... I can't fathom

Stuff is just stuff ... please take care and be well!

[KNS]

My sister used to live in Sierra Madre not far form the Eaton fire, right near Mt. Wilson trailhead, beautiful area.

She was always worried about fire living right at the foot of the mountains. I hope firefighters get a handle on it.

[unclebilly]

I hope you guys can stay safe somehow.

Eric - are you able to do anything to minimize damage? Can you irrigate your yard and home somehow?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by speeder

Hundreds of people abandoned their cars and started walking because of complete traffic gridlock. They interviewed a woman who did it and she just assumed that her car was going to burn.

Any fire fighters in the world are watching this and seeing an absolute worst case scenario.

Just this morning, I saw a video where firefighters were using a bulldozer to move cars so they could get to an area.

[Tobra]

Wet winter grows a bunch of fuel, they stopped doing anything about that years ago. Dry, then windy and Bob's your uncle

[Bugsinrugs]

Just blows me away …. Fires in January. I sure hope the winds die down.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

I hope you guys can stay safe somehow.

Eric - are you able to do anything to minimize damage? Can you irrigate your yard and home somehow?

If someone is far enough from the fire, watering down your roof might, (MIGHT), keep flying embers from igniting your house. If the fire catches up to you, there is absolutely nothing you can do but run for your life. Someone else who abandoned their car just told a news reporter that a police cruiser came by them and told them to get out of their cars if they wanted to live.

The wind strength is epic, a once-in-a-lifetime event. 50-60 mph winds blowing for 24 hours straight right now. There are at least two major fires burning, Palisades and Eaton in Altadena. When this is finally put out, the death toll and property damage figures will be hard to imagine. In the Palisades, houses in most parts start at around $5M and quickly go up from there. Hundreds if not thousands of homes have burned and the fires are both zero percent contained.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Dpmulvan

Edited

Please refrain from spreading stupidity and misinformation on this thread. You have absolutely no idea what is occurring in those areas. Snipped. Firefighters are doing an amazing job with limited resources and they never give up. These is the worst fires in inhabited areas that anyone has ever seen.