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Safest wishes to you and all the other folk over there :yep:

That's terrible!!:wah: I hope they get it contained soon! :doh::oops:

It keeps getting worse. These fires are destroying so many homes, lives, and natural areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12NJhmGqmc

Stay safe Aktungbby. Hope you get some relief soon.

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2576532)

Stay safe Aktungbby. Hope you get some relief soon.

THANKS I'M WELL TO THE SOUTH 130 MILES BUT THE SMOKE IS HORRIBLE AS THE EASTERLY WIND IS ABNORMAL;https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp AND SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED DUE TO BAD AIR...https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webpCONTAINMENT IS 20% AS OF THE LATEST UPDATE.

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The Camp Fire has become California's most destructive fire in history, having leveled 6,713 structures.
The vast majority were homes: a total of 6,453, authorities said Friday night during a press conference in Chico.
The number of buildings destroyed far surpasses the destruction left behind by the Tubbs Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties. The October 2017 fire wiped out 5,636 structures and killed 22 people.
Officials also confirmed nine fatalities. Five of those victims were found trapped in burned vehicles.
The fire was estimated at 100,000 acres and remained mostly out of control Friday night,...

ONCE AGAIN THE USUAL SUSPECT ...IS SUSPECTED:

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The Associated Press is reporting that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says "it experienced a problem on an electrical transmission line" near the Camp Fire minutes before the deadly blaze started.https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp
The statement came after the state's largest utility said in a one-page summary filed Thursday with regulators, it had experienced an outage on the electrical transmission line about 15 minutes before the deadly fire started, according to an Associated Press article.
PG&E later observed damage to a transmission tower on the line near Paradise, the story said. Authorities still haven't determined the cause of the fire.
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers, employees, contractors and the communities we serve," PG&E spokeswoman Mayra Tostado said in an email to the Record Searchlight. "The cause of the Camp Fire has not yet been determined. PG&E has provided an initial electric incident report to the Safety and Enforcement Division of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The information provided in this report is preliminary and PG&E will fully cooperate with any investigations

:salute: :hmmm: ....HOW REASSURING.https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/2b1...t=390&fit=crop

The smoke is starting to clear in Paradise, but the death toll is now up to ten (10). The whole town was consumed in just a matter of minutes from 40 mph winds.

The images remind me of Iraq fleeing Kuwait after Desert Storm :yep:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/ca...-live-updates/

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Not a single resident of Paradise, California, can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the Northern California community that may be lost forever. Most of the town's buildings are in ruin. Entire neighborhoods are leveled. The business district is destroyed.

In a single day, the Sierra Nevada foothill town of 27,000 was largely incinerated by flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do. Only a day after the "Camp Fire" began, the blaze had grown on Friday to nearly 140 square miles and destroyed more than 6,700 structures, almost all of them homes -- making it California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began.

https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newsc....fit-1240w.jpg

:o i really hope it will stop soon. All the best Aktung!

Please be safe...from someone who managed the Hurricane Harvey, Ike, et al crap......your life ain't worth your pride or possessions. When **** hits the fan, bug out like you mean it!

/\true that! 2017's mess: It came down to cat food/kitty litter, wife's jewelry, hygiene products,wedding photos, passports and clean skivies for three days of pending evacuation if the winds shifted...all in the
best two cars parked in the driveway as the power is out to the garage door, (which killed 4 people trapped in their garages!) Long garden hoses 'X' across the roof for spritzing any wind-bourne hot ash showers. At 67 I've got too much damn crap anyhow!

I missed all this yesterday... glad you're okay, Aktung

Last month I saw a movie about men who was fighting fire in the forrest.

Only The Brave.

When watching this movie I was thinking about this thread and it's owner.

When reading this thread I'm thinking about this movie.

Markus

Smoke on the horizon, bearing 000!

(Taken near Malibu.)

https://i.imgur.com/Dc4bKb4.png

From the looks of things and the El Niño chatter in the foreseeable future, we might be in for a really rough winter fire season lest we get some decent rain...

The situation here in Australia isn't much better, only 21mm (0.8") for September and October combined here in the lower Mid North of South Australia. Crops have all failed here and being bailed for stock feed, much the same over the rest of Australia. :doh: They reckon it is going to be a bad fire season here, hope not.
Very sad to see all the damage and deaths over there, what a horrible way to die.:wah: I hope it ends soon.

Prayers for everyone in California. I've been keeping up with the fires, it seems it's not ending the past couple years. Terrible events.
Stay safe everyone.
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