Was on the fires in Ventura county in November and the Franklin Malibu fire in mid December. I personally wasn’t sent down to these fires but my department has sent equipment down. Safe to say I’m ready for some rain.
Fuck yea LA. link for anyone that cares: https://www.fireaid.info/?fbclid=PA...Z_BU-POj29jauVt16U_aem_q_LCUMG7W0Ssa1KxforZwQ
Crazy video of what the fire+hurricane winds actually looks like. Impossible to fight this. https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lfbnfhqf422m
Steve Guttenberg: People need to leave their keys in their cars to be moved. Fire trucks are trying to get through here. People are dying. Reporter: Were you in Police Academy?
Hey hope everyone down there is okay! my cousin is in Sierra Madrid and evacuated yesterday. their house is okay for now but he snapped this photo before leaving. scary shit!!
Any TMB'ers impacted? Here to help if so. Seems like we're through the worst of it with some issues in N Mandeville//Sullivan Canyon + Topanga but air attack all over it
my sister lives in la just west of the highland park area. no power for a couple of days but seems to be in an okay-ish spot otherwise. was able to find a hotel to stay in for a few days on the east side of town. this thread has been a nice resource because info from her is limited
the current KCAL weather girl has an elite rack really fantastic https://www.instagram.com/alexbiston/?hl=en
One of my dearest friends was going to have her wedding in pacific palisades on Feb 1st that’s not happening now and her sister’s house burnt down in Palisades too so shitty
Palisades fire still grinding along: https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2764 Winds are much lighter from the north, but hard to get ground truth. The SCE weather gauges in the area either lost power or were destroyed.
My cousin and her family lost her home yesterday. She moved to the LA area 10 years ago. They bought a home in Malibu on the hillside 5 years back. Not big, but amazing views. The house got leveled yesterday, my aunt an uncle are there in LA helping out, but they are devastated. I have no idea what they are going to do in the short term or long term. They are at a hotel right now, they have a 15 year old and 4 year old . . . I can't imagine.
I know I shouldn't give it much thought because chuds are just stirring the pot, but I can't imagine watching gigantic fires engulf and overwhelm parts of a heavy populated city and your first thought be to blame politicians for not magically putting out the roaring fires.
This is from an aerial survey and includes rvs sheds and minor outbuildings but pretty significant structure loss. Off the top of my head Paradise and Napa fires in 2017 are probably the only ones with more structures lost.
Why not just give us the houses and commercial buildings number? Adding a 5x5 shed to the count muddies the numbers
because it’s an aerial survey, DINS (damage inspectors) will go through and conduct a more comprehensive review but this is a slower process.
The big Paradise fire was 2018. This one is about the size of the Tubs fire in 2017. Palisades looks exactly like Coffee Park looked when I was there.
My 2017 date was to reference the Napa fires not paradise. Tubbs eventually got rolled into the Nun and Atlas as a broader complex and there have been many Napa fires so I just reference the year, 2017 which was the worst. And yea as I mentioned earlier in this thread it reminded me of driving through coffee park as well. What brought you up there then?
Nothing noble (contractor). I worked on the backfill operation up there for a while. Worked on debris removal stuff in 2020 and 2021, a lot of it in same areas that burned in 2017.
My wife parents lost their house in Redding in the Carr Fire and we went there right after it burned and fire was still raging, that’s some apocalyptic shit
That one, good thing is all most to all air resources on other fires will divert to the new start and hopefully hit it hard
Oh cool, my dad was a contractor. It’s a noble thing to help clean up and rebuild those communities imo.
I assume they have them down there as well but we have planes that can skirt across a lake and pick up water with its belly. Very helpful for remote fires since we have 3M lakes.
Yea that’s why I had the typically in there, those planes are called scoopers, they are sick. But you need a large lake for those and so cal isn’t the world’s best spot. We have air tanker bases that can do pretty quick reloads of retardant. Helicopters usually use dip sites which can be small ponds and suck up water for a drop.
Yeah when the fire was at my cabin helis were scoopin out of an adjacent pond, had like 30 second turnarounds, incredibly efficient