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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:19 PM
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Where the fires are...(map for those not in Calif)
state of emergency for the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura,


county map of CAlif
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:20 PM
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1. Thank you - this is very helpful. nt
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:28 PM
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6. We are fine.. I live in a city that's surrounded by brushland-hills, but
it would have to burn 4-5K houses on its way to us..(we're in the central part of the city.. The newer homes in the hills..are NOT safe..
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:21 PM
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2. PS - are you okay?? nt
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:22 PM
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3. Is there anything more specific?
Or a link to some sort of real time map?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:26 PM
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4. Those links are so overloaded they time-out every time I tried to access them
pretty much every place in all those counties are vulnerable due to flying embers and in the canyons & brushland it's extreme..

Just now they've upped it to 12 fires..no longer 10... and swirling 30-40mph winds with higher gusts..

Fire storms generate their own "weather"

so it's hard to know where it will go next/
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:37 PM
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9. The twelve or so fires have burned about 100,000 acres.
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 01:43 PM by BuyingThyme
That wouldn't even show up on a map of California.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:41 PM
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11. True..but people who don't live here have NO idea where these
counties are and how big they are.. Our fire department is stretched to the limit, and there are rugged, dried out areas in all these counties..

Roads get closed, airport traffic gets affected, and of course "some" unlucky people will lose their homes and/or lives..
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:47 PM
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16. Here's a more specific map with where the fires are:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=117631292961056724014.00043d0e9ca465cefeeed&ll=35.960223,-117.443848&spn=4.827737,8.876953&z=7

It needs to be centered a bit to see the full extent of the area. :P

The blue bulb to the left of the words "Los Angeles" is the Malibu fire, and the bulbs north and northeast of there are in the Santa Clarita/Castaic area. The bulb right on top of Escondido is another really bad one.

Google maps needs county boundaries, but for people out of state, Orange County is between Oceanside and Long Beach, San Diego County is south of Oceanside, and LA County is between Long Beach and the aforementioned blue Malibu bulb.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:15 PM
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25. Thanks...
My brother and a sister are evacuating the Lake Arrowhead area... he lives at the lake and she lives in Cedar Glen... noted as "The Grass Fire" on the Google map. This is their second fire there... this is really too much.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:27 PM
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5. Thank you for posting this...
It helps a great deal in trying to get one's head around how huge this emergency is!

Recommended.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:32 PM
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7. thank you
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:35 PM
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8. Population by county
as of 2006


LA.....................................10,245,572
San Bernardino...................1,991,829
San Diego............................3,066,820
Ventura................................817,346
SantaBarbara.......................421,625
Orange...............................3,072,336
Riverside..............................1,995,330
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:40 PM
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10. Another map
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:43 PM
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12. I think CNN put up an old map.. The Cedar Fire is not from this fire season
..
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:45 PM
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14. Yea, I took it down....here's a google map from the LA Times
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=117631292961056724014.00043d0e9ca465cefeeed&ll=35.960223,-117.443848&spn=4.827737,8.876953&z=7
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:44 PM
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13. Here is a modified image I made to make it easier
Areas in purple are where the fires are.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:46 PM
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15. FYI san Diego county has evacuated
about one quarter of a million people

Hell, the Q is now open...

THAT FOLKS IS BAD...

This will be worst than the Cedar fire...
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:50 PM
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17. They just said 500,000 evacuated
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 02:29 PM by FreeState
on KPBS (89.5) - my house overlooks the Q...

Edit to add: that they have now said its only 250,000

Salano Beach just warned that they may need to leave... scary...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:52 PM
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19. Ok that is now one Fourth of the county population
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 01:52 PM by nadinbrzezinski
This is going to be amusing, NOT...
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:01 PM
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21. I know, Im praying the wind does not change
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 02:02 PM by FreeState
if it goes south the people in the Q will be fine but those of us in the canyons here may not - I live on a canyon and it is DRY. We have the brush cut back 150 feet but several of our neighbors don't and one house is all it takes... I don't think its likely to come down this far but you never know - in 2003 it was less than 2 miles from the stadium.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:58 PM
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29. That's our problem here.. huge counties--land-wise, but most
of the people are clustered together.
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:37 PM
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31. Solano beach?
Uh oh...
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:51 PM
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18. Right, and for those not from here and don't know
what the "Q" is.

That's Qualcomm Stadium where the San Diego Chargers play.

The Cedar fire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 01:53 PM
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20. Kicked and recommended
Thanks for the the thread, SoCalDem.
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:04 PM
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22. more fire maps
fires at blue markers
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:34 PM
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30. That lower map looks like entire SoCal's on fire....
Take care my friends :grouphug:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 05:51 PM
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33. It kind of is.. My husband works in Ontario so I called him
to see what;s up there.. A DC-9 aborted a landing right above his office..He could see the pilot :scared:

The winds are so high, I guess they closed the airport for a while..maybe still closed
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:08 PM
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23. Channel 8 site has all the evacuations and more (link)
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 02:08 PM by FreeState
For those of us in San Diego this is the best resource I have seen so far -as usual the UT is worthless...

http://www.cbs8.com/
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:10 PM
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24. Here's a helpful link
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 02:11 PM by SoCalDem
http://calfire.blogspot.com/
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 11:56 PM
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36. Sad video...reporter standing/reporting in front of his **own** destroyed home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGF2bbxQ6E
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:20 PM
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26. Is Nipomo involved at all? My brother lives near San Simeon, or so I under-
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 02:21 PM by Peregrine Took
stand.
Thanks.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:24 PM
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27. That's pretty far to the north
The closest fire would be the one in Santa Barbara, which I don't think is very big.

You should go visit him! It's nice up there! :P
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:29 PM
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28. Nipomo fun-facts... looks like a nice little town.. you should visit
http://www.city-data.com/city/Nipomo-California.html
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:43 PM
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32. My heart goes out to all of you


last week we had wildfires here in TN a few miles from here. Fortunately the firefighters were able to contain them and it is raining again today Yeah!

Can anyone tell me about Apple Valley? have an Uncle and Aunt there. It may be too far from the thick of it but I am concerned for them up in that dry country.

Best to all of you in CA enduring this mess. Hoping for an end to it all soon for you all.

:grouphug:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 05:52 PM
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34. Apple Valley has not been mentioned on any local news..so they are probably not affected
BUT who knows? They are near Victorville (the other side of the Cajon Pass).. The fires are below them for now at least
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 11:10 PM
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35. Thanks SCD


Just got back home a little while ago, hope you are okay

:hug:
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