Wildfire(s) Out West

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    goldrush said:
    I got talking to a couple of firemen this afternoon at a takeaway place. They had popped in to pick up some dinner for the crew, still in their full gear on the way back to the firehouse. We went over to say hi and thank them, they were more interested in asking my 5 year old son if he wanted to see the firetruck. (He did, and he loved it!)
    They were really humble guys. A few of us offered to pay for their food but they wouldn’t have any of it.
    Awesome!
    I reckon being a firey would be a good job but I am not fit enough haha.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    rhanishane said:
    our air quality at home currently worst in the world on the mid north coast for the last month but they only report on Sydney air quality today. Poor fuckers must be tough living in the city (sarcasm) 😞
    The air quality will spoil their latte's haha.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    Thanks Bono for acknowledging our firies 👍
    https://www.facebook.com/7390614415/posts/10158115200614416/
  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    6000kms of fire edge in NSW alone so much forest gone 
    https://www.facebook.com/213250965551/posts/10157439545800552/
  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    Then we have unlikely heroes like this woman.. This footage gutted me but its a reality that needs to be seen. 
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2942792559073707&id=125982670754724
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,803
    rhanishane said:
    goldrush said:
    I got talking to a couple of firemen this afternoon at a takeaway place. They had popped in to pick up some dinner for the crew, still in their full gear on the way back to the firehouse. We went over to say hi and thank them, they were more interested in asking my 5 year old son if he wanted to see the firetruck. (He did, and he loved it!)
    They were really humble guys. A few of us offered to pay for their food but they wouldn’t have any of it.
    are you near these fires also?  The firies have been nothing short of amazing here. The community has been taking care of our local firies with our local takeaway delivering 50 meals to my fire station down the rd. People have been cooking meals and taking them down the station everyday and making sandwiches and lunch packs to take out with them on the trucks. We have had countless trucks and firies local, state and out of state firies here. Absolute mammoth effort and most of these men and women are volunteer rfs.
    No thankfully I’m not that close, but my wife’s family are. The Turramurra fire last week was the closest one to us, that’s about a 10 minute drive away.

    We’ve actually just arrived in the UK for a holiday with my family. Flying out on a 36 degree day and landing to 8 degrees was a shock to the system.
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited August 2020
    Never say it can't get worse...
    Out here in the west, we're just entering fire season.  We're in the middle of a record heat wave, there's wind everywhere, and the latest CalFire update shows 28 active fires going right now, some rather large and sure to grow.  Hot weather, wind fire.  No one needs to tell any of us out here to go to hell.  Were there.

    Oh, and we just got an update from PG&E telling us to expect power outages through Thursday.

    Welcome to paradise?  No frickin' way!  :lol: 
    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    We're feeling lucky to have no fires close by, but they're raging all up and down the state.  We've had ash falling off and on today.  Many fire area are under red flag warning until 9 AM tomorrow.  Feels and looks rather eerie out there.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    Stay safe.. brings back horrible memories of our black summer in Australia. We already have fires starting and it's winter in the north of the state the last couple of days.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    After listening/ reading more news about what's going on a couple hours away from here, plus ALL OVER the state, I'm damn near freaking out.  I went over our evacuation list again, changed out the spare cat food in the cat carrier, rechecked to go-bag for essentials.  We're out of harms way for now but on high alert with what's going on around the state.  The greater Bay Area is being hammered mercilessly by the mighty breath of hell.


    Live Fire Updates: Bay Area fires explode in size, setting up fights to save neighborhoods and entire towns

    Dozens lose homes as firefighters struggle to contain three major complex fires


    Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as unchecked fires, fueled by dry and windy weather, exploded across three corners of the Bay Area Wednesday, destroying dozens of structures and filling the air across much of the region with unhealthy smoke.

    As the sun set, firefighters across the state were battling hundreds of known wildfires, leaving weary and thinly stretched crews in the Bay Area to brace for a battle through the night to save neighborhoods and entire communities in the paths of these blazes:

    • The CZU August Lightning Complex Fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, which more than doubled in size Wednesday, growing to cover 25,000 acres, destroying at least 20 homes, forcing 22,000 people to evacuate and burning out of control.

    • The LNU Lightning Complex Fire in Lake, Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties, which covered more than 124,000 acres as of Wednesday evening, having also more than doubled through the day. The fire has destroyed 105 structures, forced more than 15,000 people to evacuate and is also out of control.

    • The SCU Lightning Complex Fire in Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties, which covered 102,000 acres as of Wednesday evening, and was just 5 percent contained.



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • DE4173
    DE4173 Posts: 2,947

    1993: 11/22 Little Rock
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  • DE4173
    DE4173 Posts: 2,947
    edited August 2020
    ^ Noah Berger/AP

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    1993: 11/22 Little Rock
    1996; 9/28 New York
    1997: 11/14 Oakland, 11/15 Oakland
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    2000: 10/17 Dallas
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    DE4173 said:


    Some of our parks are taking a big hit.  One of the most beautiful, Big Basin Redwoods State Park has sustained heavy damage:
    Big Basin Redwoods State Park severely damaged by CZU Lightning

    Lake Berryessa, a popular recreation area, is being hit hard:

    Flames are seen on both sides of Lake Berryessa in this long-exposure photo taken in Napa California on Tuesday
    https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/california-wildfires-08-19-2020/index.html


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I talked to friends in the Bay Area today.  It's worse than bad.  Mother Nature has unleashed her wrath. 

    Seems like every year I say, "I've never seen it this bad."  Here we go again.


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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    Devastating I'm so sorry. It's really horrible.
    We are heading into a la Nina year but that doesn't mean much in Australia it just means more growth of flammables and our summers are still ridiculously hot. Australia was just a massive brown combustion oven last summer it really was inevitable.

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    rhanishane said:
    Devastating I'm so sorry. It's really horrible.
    We are heading into a la Nina year but that doesn't mean much in Australia it just means more growth of flammables and our summers are still ridiculously hot. Australia was just a massive brown combustion oven last summer it really was inevitable.

    That's pretty much the same situation here.  Australia and the U.S. west have a lot in common that way.

    We are having our first morning of comfortable temperatures but our air quality is in the "very unhealthy" range today so no opening windows or going outside for any length of time.  Claustrophobic, scary times!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Same here, although already 82 at this early hour? Ugh!

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    hedonist said:
    Same here, although already 82 at this early hour? Ugh!


    Bummer!  It's hard enough when days are hot, but when you don't get cooling at night- that's when it gets even more uncomfortable! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    It’s days like today I’m very thankful for AC.  I feel for anyone who has to work outside with the added heating layer of mask!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    hedonist said:
    It’s days like today I’m very thankful for AC.  I feel for anyone who has to work outside with the added heating layer of mask!
    Excellent point!

    I was thinking about that yesterday when I drove to the Post Office.  There was a road crew out there working in the heat and breathing the bad air and I felt badly for them.  And all the other folks who work outdoors. And the firefighters!  How do they do it?!

    And then I saw one of our local homeless guys and I thought about all the other many homeless people who are stuck outside most of the time.  It was overwhelming to think about. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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