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Barbarian
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My best friend evacuated with his daughter yesterday. He lost his house, business, and all his possessions except what he was able to stuff into his motor home. He had 40 minutes warning, and barely escaped with flames around and behind him.
He is currently parked in Chico trying to process his loss and see the path forward. We had a rough phone call this morning. It was not the first time we've cried together.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Ho Lee Phuk! Time to jump in the ocean!
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Barbarian
climber
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I spoke to my friend this morning, and his concerns were with others in the community. His family are all accounted for and safe. His home and business were insured. He lost possessions, but will recover and thrive.
So many in Paradise are not as good a position.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Looks like Malibu is going to get it bad. We'll see over the rest of the day. I think that this fire isn't going to stop for anything until it hits the Pacific Ocean.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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That’s Malibu
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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And our fire proposition SS got defeated here in San Diego County, Valley Center area. It would have provided a new, centrally located fire station with funds for equipment and more fire fighters.
What a crazy world we live in on numerous levels. How to prepare the grand kids?
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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"How to prepare the grand kids?"
Have them watch movies like Road Warrior and Red Dawn and train them to survive......
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WBraun
climber
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Yikes !!!!
MORE HO LEE SH!T !!!!
Californica is going down in flames ......
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Ya gotta feel for all those poor Malibuites fleeing.
They had to decide whether to take the Bentley or the Aston!
And the Westin and Intercontinental can only hold so many.
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WBraun
climber
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My sister lives in Malibu oh oh more HO LEE SH!T .....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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https://lawestmedia.com/lawest/woolsey-fire-jumps-freeway-evacuations/
It's not going down in flames. It's going up in flames.
Hope your sister is okay, Werner.
The Woolsey Fire exploded to more than 10,000 acres overnight, driven by 50- to 60-mph winds that helped propel the flames southward across the Ventura (101) Freeway in the Liberty Canyon area early Friday. Although an unknown number of structures have been destroyed, there were no reports of any injuries to firefighters or residents as of mid-morning Friday.
Evacuation orders were imposed overnight affecting tens of thousands of residents in both counties, and at 10 a.m. Friday, mandatory evacuation orders were expanded to include the entire city of Malibu. The order includes the area south of the 101 Freeway from the Ventura County line east to Las Virgenes/Malibu Canyon Road, and as far south as the Pacific Ocean.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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That's a shot I was surfing around for earlier, Dingus.^^^
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psykokid
Mountain climber
Pasadena
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My inlaws live on the far eastern side of Paradise, just east of the intersection on Pentz Rd and Wagstaff. You go due east from their house and and you are in the west fork of the feather river canyon in no time flat. They sold their place down here in LA and moved up there in early 2017. My FIL wanted to live up near Lake Almanor and Chester but my MIL needed something a little more civilized so they compromised on Paradise...
My MIL called my wife yesterday around 8:30 and told them they were getting evacuated. According to my wife it just sounded like there was a big brush fire down the street. It wasnt until a short time later my wife started googling and came to the realization that it was much, much worse than here mom had let on. They left their house at the same time, my MIL got routed down one way in her car and my FIL ended up being sent down another. MIL cleared the fire area around between noon & 13:00. Took him until almost 15:00 to clear the fire area, and due to the cluster of everyone fleeing he wasnt able to meet back up with my MIL until after 17:00.
Looking at some of the fire maps it's very likely that their house is gone. Here's a map and the circled IR hotspot is just north of their house.
My FIL's brother lives in Forest Ranch and they evac'd out to their cabin up in Chester last night, just in case..
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
no words... but-- thanks for the updates...
:(
*good to hear from you, barbarian... so more than good, to
hear that your best friend got out...
:( sadness for those lost... :(
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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My heart goes out to the people of the Paradise area. It's shocking to me how quickly that fire spread.
I've been lucky in that the only serious fire in my neck of the woods (Castle Rock State Park area) was the fire a year ago in the bottom of my canyon. It was obscured from my view by the intervening ridge and vegetation so I didn't see it right away. We got the reverse 911 call after dark just about the time we could hear the first CalFire engines and helicopters. We didn't see flames for smoke. It only took us about 2 minutes to decide to evacuate and 15 more to get ready. Fortunately we knew pretty much what to take, closed all our windows and skylights. Made certain all doors were secured. Took about 3 suitcases of stuff, tossed it into our two cars and locked the door on the way out to Los Gatos. I think the whole thing took not more than 20 minutes to get into the cars. Fortunately we had done an earthquake drill a few months before so knew exactly what to take.
Got the last motel room in Los Gatos. And a funky one it was too.
So it CAN happen to you and don't even think about it. Get the F***K out ASAP and don't look back.
It turned out that the fire never got past the big ridge at the bottom of my canyon. The 100+ homes development on the top of the ridge to the south of me were under mandatory evacuation for nearly a week. CalFire moved a lot of engines and crews to the roads in the community that overlooked the burning canyon. The Sheriff made certain everyone was out and kept them out for 5 days.
So the moral of the story is be mentally prepared to GO. Expect you may be away from home for several days. Know in advance what you REALLY don't want to lose. It's surprisingly little. GO when you get the call. Do not pass go, do not collect your favorite records and tapes. Have prior plans/arrangements for your animals. When CalFire is knocking at your door is no time to be rummaging around for grandma's hand knitted table cloth.
We were all extraordinary lucky that no lives, nor pets nor houses were lost. Our CERT team had educated everybody in advance. The only houses lost were the two crack shacks where the fire started. And that's another story.
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John M
climber
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Cal fire is reporting the camp fire at:
90,000 acres
6,453 residences burned
260 commercial buildings burned
I can't even fathom that.
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TLP
climber
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^+1. Even more astonishing, this took place in like 1 1/2 days.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 10, 2018 - 01:55am PT
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Will probably follow the canyons into the high country until the the cooler elevations slow things down or we get a rain storm.
It's what the Rim fire did. This Camp fire's way more bad-ass, though.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8933884-181/at-least-9-people-kil
led?ref=mostarticle
Grieving for all the lost souls of Paradise.
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