Praying for some rain and relief.

 

Good Morning CF members. We live in Santa Clarita, Calif., where Magic Mountain is. Sunday I went to work (just a usual night) when the fires hit. I was stuck at work for 16 hrs. not knowing how our home was. My wife works for Edison (power company) and was gone for over 26 hrs. I came home Monday morning to a gorgeous site. These fire trucks were parked all over our culdesac. These guys used our street between calls to rest and recuperate. They were rushing out every few hours. Then the culdesac was empty again. Several hours later, they were back. All the neighbors brought them food, water, sleeping bags, whatever they needed. Showers were also deeply appreciated by these guys. My home, our dogs, and our Vette were in good hands. I recieved some shots of my buddy's house up the street. The fires came down a hill to the backyards. Fortunately for him, they all came thru this OK. Santa Clarita has suffered about 30 homes lost and many square miles of burned land. As bad as it is out here, it is nothing compared to what is happening in San Diego, Lake Arrowhead, or Running Springs. We are lucky. Keep all of those residents in your thoughts and prayers today and the rest of the week, they are going to need them. As for these firemen/firewomen, I have been a policeman for 24 years now. I think I have seen all kinds of heroes. But let me tell you, when your blue sky has suddenly turned an ugly red/orange and all you hear the sound of the flames crackling all around you, creating it's own weather pattern and sounding like a tornado, and you see these crazy people running into this mess doing whatever they can to preserve your property and family......man, these guys/gals are some REAL HEROES!!! Pray for them too.

 

unbelievable pics.....wow.....

 

Good idea - how about this one time everyone, including the garage queen owners who don't drive their cars in the rain (no offense, you'll see where I'm headed) get our cars in a circle or something and let our cars do the dance for us: IE: rain is needed so badly, that it would be well worth it IMHO to take any car, including a "garage queen," outside if doing so would make it rain

Didn't mean to exclude the firefighters from our prayers - I had to make this C5 related somehow since I posted in the General section, so that's why I mentioned our vette owning brothers and sisters

I'm a volunteer fireman myself so I'm sure has **** praying for the men and women putting their lives at risk to stop that raging beast.




Great pictures (if you can call something like that great), but question: the fire in the pictures 5, 6 and 7 literally looks like it is in your backyard, minutes away from those homes - was it really that close, or was it farther away than the pictures seem to show? Did they stop it, or did it take those houses out?

 

The photos of the fire coming into the backyards was taken by my buddy Mike. He is two blocks from me. The fire guys/gals held the fire to the hill behind the yards. Mike's next door neighbor was in his backyard with a hose. His boat cover caught fire and he put it out, when he saw HIS neighbor's patio furniture catching fire. He jumped over into that yard and threw the furniture into the pool, saving that house (the furniture was underneath a new wood patio cover attached to the house). Once he put that out, he saw his boat cover was on fire again, ran back and put that out. They all came through the fire OK. Thanks for asking.

 

My thoughts and prayers are with you all....
stay safe..

 

 

Yes, I have joined in prayers for the people of San Diego area. I have a sister, cousin, and nephew in the vicinity. So far, they are all fine although all but my sister has evacuated.

I heard on the news this morning that over 500,000 people have been evacuated and that the damage estimate to "homes alone" that have been destroyed is over $1,000,000,000!

 

 

My son was deployed Monday morning to Malibu. He left Malibu early Tuesday and is somewhere in the San Diego area. Haven't heard from him since yesterday.

 

Thanks Dave. We're still doing ok, but the winds are picking up again. I just took the plane up to 10,000' to have a better look. My God, the entire LA basin is full of smoke. This shot was taken near Hesperia looking across Arrowhead into San Bernadino. Looks like an active war zone!

 

Fresno County sent fire trucks and we are 300+ miles away. When the off shore winds stop that will really help, but then the on shore winds are to start and blow the smoke back, now it will really be hard to breath.

 

Since we experience the same destruction here almost every year in AZ, numerous AZ fire departments are sending their manpower and equipment that way for relief of those working these fires. They expect to be there two to three weeks.
My wife works for a large utility company and they're sending manpower and equipment as well to help restore power ASAP.
This will have an affect on the entire country. The CA economy is a large % of the USA economy. I hope the insurance companies don't leave people holding the bag like they did in LA and MS.
Good luck to those on the lines risking their lives.

 

California is the 8th largest economy in the World !
I work for the largest insurance company in the state for home and auto. We have already sent claims people to the Qualcomm stadium in San Diego so people can start the claim process. We will cut a check on the spot if you show your ID, so we can confirm your policy. The initial money is for living expense to start with.

 

 

I live near the Santiago Canyon fire. We could see the fire in the nearby hills, but so far we have been safe. Lots of smoke and ash everywhere. Santiago Fire It seems like many areas of Southern California has been on fire for days. The high Santa Ana winds and temps have made this a difficult fire for the brave men and women in the fire departments. Here is a map that I found on the web yesterday showing all of the major areas ablaze in SoCal. The red dots are the fire areas. The yellow are previous fire areas.

 

[QUOTE=hotwheels57;1562449596]Since we experience the same destruction here almost every year in AZ, numerous AZ fire departments are sending their manpower and equipment that way for relief of those working these fires. They expect to be there two to three weeks.QUOTE]

Thank you, they are arriving The smoke's coming in big-time now. My eye's were burning so bad it was hard to get these pictures! It's getting pretty bad here in the mountains. But we have more help arriving each day Hopefully we'll stop loosing homes soon.

 

These pic were taken by other people and not me so the credit for them goes to them.






Just gives you all an idea what was going on and still going on in many places right now. Photos borrowed from www.abc7.com

 

Amazing photos of a horrible tragedy. God bless all, especially the firefighters that put their lives on the line everyday.

 

I lived in San Diego for more than 30 years, we have had fires but never like this. San Diego has grown so much that what used to be just a brush fire in the canyons now destroys hundreds if not thousands of homes. 4 years ago we had a major fire that threatend to burn its way into the downtown area. Thousands of homes were destroyed then, and now this fire is burning much of the same area. Sad thing is that insurance companies paid out on the last fire, but many refused to write policies on the rebuilt homes for wildfires, no matter what the cause. Used to be if the fire was not an act of god, but man caused, you could get coverage. Not so easy now. These are the people who are going to be hardest hit.
I now live on the central coast of CA, and so far, we have been lucky.
The whole state is really dry, so no one is immune.
Lets hope the rains come early this year.