The fire still burns out of control. But most of it has been contained deep in the San Gabriel Mountains, a steep and mostly inaccessible range spanning the Angeles National Forest.
Directly above my house, the danger is gone. Everything that could burn, burned. But because of the work of the crazy firefighters, a fortuitous lack of wind and improving weather, thousands of homes were saved.
To date:
155,000+ acres burned.
89 homes damaged or destroyed.
3 commercial properties destroyed.
104 outbuildings destroyed.
2 communications sites destroyed.
Last Wednesday, the morning following "the end of days," these firefighters gathered a couple blocks up from the house. They coordinated, planned and prepped for about two hours at the base of the hills.
(A fire fighter tells a local resident he can't go back to his house.)
Helicopter water drops bombarded the flames which were dangerously close to homes.
Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
The synchropter Kaman K-MAX
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Yesterday, I took a moto ride up to the mouth of the mountains to see what I could.
The CHiPs had the road closed to anyone except residents and the cop said he had no idea when it would re-open.
From what I could tell, the San Gabriel Mountains were destroyed. It looked like the moon.
(Looking North up Big Tujunga Canyon)
My preferred DEV - Disaster Escape Vehicle.
On my way to work on Thursday, I spotted this nonsense...
What are two guys dressed up like cops doing near a fire evacuation zone at 8am?
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so I see you finally got a real headlight on the beast....touche
ReplyDeleteso whatever happened to this blog? are there gonna be any new posts ever? EVAR?
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