Sorta relevant PSA but the only safe I ever saw on any of the burned properties I worked on that actually protected the contents was one that a man build that some had put 10 layers of Hardie board siding around. The "fireproof" safe's get so hot they carbonize documents inside them. Even this crazy wine vault ended up just boiling the wine and blowing the corks out. Spoiler I assume this was expensive. It was quite the property.
I guess there are a couple scoopers out and about. Outside of scoopers most of the planes are retardant based though.
There was a fire next to the main lake that people have cabins at here. The wind was blowing the other way though so people were all there, might’ve even been 4th of July weekend. The scoopers were out in full force but you still had idiots drunk on their jetskis out there getting in their way. Almost wished one of ‘em got picked up (I assume that’s not actually possible)
Was it in Yellowstone NP many years ago that a guy in scuba gear was found dead in a tree? The authorities concluded he had been scuba diving in a lake that scooper planes were using to douse a wildfire.
Mel Gibson’s Malibu House Burned Down While He Was in Austin for Joe Rogan Interview: “My Place Looked Like Dresden” Spoiler Mel Gibson revealed that he lost his Malibu home in the Los Angeles wildfires while he was in Austin to record a podcast interview with Joe Rogan. In a telephone interview on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports, the Mad Max actor tried to remain upbeat as he spoke at length about the “devastating” feeling of losing the home he had lived in for 14 to 15 years. “Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional,” Gibson said to host Elizabeth Vargas. “You live there for a long time, and you had all your stuff. You remember George Carlin talking about your stuff? I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders.” When asked about where he was during the fire that consumed his home, Gibson said he was in Austin, Texas, at the time to record an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. “I was doing the Rogan podcast… And [I was] kind of ill at ease while we were talking, because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, I wonder if my place is still there. But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there. I went home and I said to myself, well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.” Gibson said that his wife, Rosalind Ross, and their son, Lars, were safe as they had evacuated their home. He added that fellow actor Ed Harris’ home, down the street from Gibson’s, was also burned down. Despite the devastation, Gibson said his chickens survived the fire. Pushed by Vargas, the Braveheart star offered more insight into what he lost in the fires. “I had a lot of personal things there that, you know, I can’t get back…All kinds of stuff, everything from photographs to files to, you know, you know, just personal things that I had from over the years, and clothing, you know, pretty cool stuff, you know, but you know that can all be replaced,” Gibson said. “These are only things. And the good, the good news is that, you know, those in my family and those I love are all well, and we’re all happy and healthy and out of harm’s way, that’s all I can care about, really.”
People are so stupid https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/canadi...an-drone-over-los-angeles-wildfires-1.7171040
thank you. We’re still okay but we’re in the Palisades fire path if it doesn’t get better imma be knocking on your door
progression map for the Eaton fire. Spoiler short of maps from produced by the IMTs, you could get the raw data via kml/shp and make one
The NWS has a good observation map: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?obs=true&wfo=lox Very tough fire to fight at this point. Huge perimeter and with the subtle shifts in wind direction, the flame front keeps shifting. Stay safe
CalFire has a map with current fire perimeter, evac zones, RAWS data (weather), and it seems some live aircraft data: https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgi...tml?webscene=0a7381c8b46b4e26a057383424f32c06
On a historical perspective I found this interesting, LAFD made this in 1962. History repeats itself in some ways, video should start around 21:20
I've been reading some articles this week about how dramatic increases in non-native species of grasses into fire prone areas (not just in the American west, but Hawaii, South America, and Australia too) have changed the nature and frequency of fires in the most prone areas. https://www.science.org/content/art...grasses-increasing-risk-devastating-wildfires here's a bluesky thread https://bsky.app/profile/revkin.bsky.social/post/3lfhvu77nc22w