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LA FIRE - I can see the smoke from my window!

Roberto Lequeux

Roberto Lequeux

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I was looking at the news and heard how close and big it was. I took a peek out the window and there it was! A glowing pink cloud not too far in the distance.

Hope everyone stays safe and their houses spared.

The lens is at a 140mm equivalent. I think it must be about 10 - 15 miles away.

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It looks like there are a ton of houses that burned up completely... especially at night when they couldn't deploy every resource they had... it really sucked to see that trailer park burn without a single helicopter making drops or firefighters in the ground... poor folks.
 
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Yea, I am still relatively new here, about 3 years now... but it seems that the wild fires are more of the natural disaster than earthquakes... fires break out all the time. I bet one day we'll catch a terrorist red handed starting out to hurt our economy... either that or we should ban smoking al together... well I don't mean to start a discussion on that really... just agreeing that this happens too often.

This is not good for our lungs either... the smoke is thick and it smells like something was burning next door.

I'll take an other picture as the sun sets to show how much smother I can see.
 
What they need to do is install a sprinkler system (on a massive scale) under heavily forested areas, with detectors. Once four detectors (in a square acre) pick up smoke the sprinklers automatically go off and an alarm goes off to alert people to it.

Also in a defense move, if it doesn't rain for a few days... set off the sprinklers.

People always say "we need rain, we need rain" to put out the damn fire... well make rain then. Do it in movies all the time.
 
I happened to be visiting Olive View hospital last night at 10:00pm. At 11 I heard tons of sirens so I decided to follow. The fire started out small so it was cool to watch. Helicopter dropping water and spraying our car. That tells you how close we were. Then the wind picked up and took the fire and split it in 2 directions. When I saw things getting really bad at 12:30 I decided it was time to go. When we drove back by the hospital the fire was right at the parking lot and the brush in the lot was on fire. There was a storm of embers that looked like fire rain. Fire literally lined the street we were on. Police hadn't even had time to block off the road and fire crews were just pulling into the hospital lot. Most people who don't actually see the fire in person don't realize how quickly it moves. I swore it was contained when we first sat there and watched, but once that wind blew it took off. In defense of the firefighters there was nothing they could do at the mobile home park. They tried but conditions made it impossible to fight. My prayers go out to all those affected by the fires. By the way I live in Northridge and this morning the smoke actually looked like fog it was that bad.

Keep safe people and use your brains!
 
Brea fire is 3 miles from me - yikes. Soaked my hillside and hooked up the trailer, just in case...it probably won't spread this far. Famous last words...
 
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