Burning California

All my family lives in California. A lot of them are in San Diego, along with some of my friends, so I have been watching these fires with interest. Fortunately, none of them are in danger. But they tell me the air is thick with smoke and its hard to breathe. They had to get some air purifiers and that’s making things easier.

This fire is supposed to be worse than the Cedar fire a few years ago and that’s saying something. The Cedar fires were so bad, we had ash and smoke in the air as far away as Las Vegas, which was hundreds of miles away. So I can only imagine how bad it is now.

Disasters are something you never expect, yet that can totally change your life. Let’s hope these fires are under control soon and no more houses and lives are lost. 

No residual smoke or ash has blown into Southern Nevada yet, but that may change soon.

I have family in the fire-affected areas as well.  For now, they are out of danger, but prepared to evacuate if necessary.

Posted by D.C. Thornton  on  10/23  at  07:54 PM

Received this yesterday. I lived in Fallbrook from 1999 to 2002. Once there was a fire that burned some houses not far from us, but there wasn’t an evacuation. One of my son-in-laws lives there now and wrote the below.

“Brock,

All of Fallbrook was evacuated last night it’s a very serious situation, 500k evacuated from San Diego alone, worst in its history. We are still in the fire’s path. War zone.”

“Not sure if we have a home to go back to. Looks grim.”

Looks very bad.  See below.

“As was the case in 2003, the most devastating fires were in San Diego County where, in some areas, stretched-thin firefighters were forced to seemingly write off entire swaths of habitation. Along Highway 78 east of Escondido, near the San Diego Wild Animal Park, homes burned unchecked on both sides of the highway and the only firefighters in sight were heading out. There were no aerial drops of fire retardant; no planes or helicopters were in the sky.”

San Diego Fire Rescue Battalion Chief John Tomson worried that if the wind did not die down, fires could burn all the way through San Diego to the Pacific Ocean—a cataclysm of almost unimaginable dimensions.
“We’re not going to stop it,” he said. “I don’t have any idea even where it is any more. I’m not sure anybody knows where it is anymore.”

Posted by Brock Townsend  on  10/24  at  08:24 AM

yes, I think air purifiers can provide relief to californians from wildfire smoke

Posted by Brat  on  02/23  at  12:09 PM
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