In Case You Haven’t Heard: California is on Fire
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CNN reports:
“SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — More than a dozen uncontained wildfires raged Monday across Southern California, threatening thousands of structures and forcing people to flee homes from San Diego to Malibu to Lake Arrowhead.
Fire officials said more than 265,000 people have been evacuated and nearly 4,900 firefighters are battling the fast-moving blazes, which began over the weekend.”
This is a big problem for California; a little over one quarter of a million people have been evacuated from their homes. That is a very scary thing. A few years ago in Arizona, we had some pretty bad fires, and had to evacuate our house. There is nothing more scary than two police officers knocking on your door saying “we suggest you leave very soon, take only the bare essentials (they said pets were not essential… screw that).
It is very dry and windy in California, which is making the fires that much worse. Weather reports say that the wind probably won’t let up. Today, fire fighters from Tucson, Arizona joined the fight (I am sure other cities and states sent help as well).
For those of you in California, please stay safe. For those of you who are fighting the fires, please stay safe as well. You are heroes.
-Justin
[tags]Public Safety, Fire, Evacuation, Danger, Smokey the Bear[/tags]
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Richard Ringler
October 24th, 2007
at 7:07am
Now, if only the Liberals would get a 9.0 earthquake or higher it would suit me just fine. Californians have pretty much always had a cranial /rectal inversion! I say lets go back to 49 states, and hope California either burns to the ground and / or falls into the sea (hopefully without too much more pollution)!
Washii
October 24th, 2007
at 10:51am
While I disagree, I’d hope you only mean most of SoCal west of the Sierras. North California is actually perfectly nice. But, jeez, what an attitude.
Some family of mine are actually right around the middle of all this mess, so I’ve been keeping in contact with them off and on through the past few days. Just Monday night they had an evacuation warning, but they’ve been lucky so far with the fires, still in their homes.
My hope goes out to those that lost their homes (though, maybe not so much for the multi-million dollar homes of those that can afford multiple new ones).
The Restless Mouse
October 24th, 2007
at 2:04pm
Guess I am not the only one who gets a kind of “empathy burnout”. Ever since 9/11, seems I can’t muster the appropriate level of horror and sympathy, makes me feel kind of guilty. Except for the pets and the little kids, I just can’t seem to give a crap anymore.
They should take people like us and herd us on a bus, make us go fight fires, or work in a shelter, or something. But I guess you can’t enforce humanity.