John Force Racing FIRE DANGER!

[Cymon Sez]

Fires burning in the Southern California area are threatening the John Force Racing Facility.

As of this point nothing is on fire however fires continue to burn all around the facility.

 

[You!]

Yorba Linda Fires

Craig Hoelzel from JFR just called in to the local news room covering the fire and confirmed that it is very close to the shop now. He said he asked Force over the phone what he wanted them to get out of the building, and Coil told him the computer hard drives. So Craig has 25 of them in his car ready to go.

Helicopters are refueling in the property across from Force's right next to the 91. This one is really, really bad.

 

[Cymon Sez]

Re: Yorba Linda Fires

Treed ya

http://www.nitromater.com/nhra/19201-john-force-racing-fire-danger.html

 

[Rumblebones]

Yorbe Linda fire. Could be bad.


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[mike cummings]

Its pretty bad. I was just about to leave the house to head into Disneyland to shoot tonight's show and got a call from scheduling that top management at the park has already cancelled the show due to the fires. We pretty much knew the winds were going to cancel us tonight but that decision isn't made until showtime (9:25PM) . this is the first time I have seen the show cancelled so early.

 

[Mike]

I think the fire is closer to Johns house rather than the shop. Neither one is good.

 

[Cymon Sez]

Fire got as close as 1320' to the building (look to the right at the river bed this is where the fire was burning) JFR is located to the right on East Park and Old Canal Google Maps

 

[Mike]

Steve, you live in OC so you know that the big building on the right is a Home Depot. At least there is a lot of stuff between the river and JFR. TV mention the street that John lives on in its broadcast today but I dont know how close it was to his home.




Ugly no matter what.

 

[Cymon Sez]

Yeah the fire was behind the EXPO building which is to the left of the HD as for his home i dont know where his house is located (only that its in the hills near by) The biggest problem with these fires is they are jumping and skipping buildings/homes at random.

Keep ya posted

 

[mike cummings]

Steve, I think that smoking baby in your avatar is responsible for starting the fires.

 

[Big Dave]

Any updates on this for those of us downunder?

 

[Al smith]

if he still lived in that trailer he grew up in he coulda just hooked up and moved it to a safe place

 

[Cymon Sez]

Fires are still burning however the winds have calmed a bit as for the fire behind JFR they were dropping water on it about 2 hrs ago trying to save the buildings and I haven't seen any updates since

Steve, I think that smoking baby in your avatar is responsible for starting the fires.

Its a bad habit I've tried to get him to stop.

 

[You!]

Water pressure or the lack there of appears to be a big problem in fighting this fire.

 

[Mike]

Steve, a buddy who lives off of Weir Canyon said that the apt building east of Weir Canyon on the southside of the 91 burned pretty bad.

 

[Cymon Sez]

It has burned two complexes now.

JFR is ok for now but the way the winds are blowing its still in danger.

 

[Cymon Sez]

The Fix Auto Collision behind JFR lost some cars outside the facility.

 

[Suzanne]

Wow I hope they have an army of people over there to load trucks.......I know Id go help if I still lived in CA. This is just a shame. Its a shame for everyone but Ive never known anyone who at the moment was in this kinda of situation, to know of someone kinda puts a face to the fact. I hope these fires go away really soon. I didnt realize there was a fire in the OC/Riverside area, when did this one start up. Just got off work so havent seen the news yet

 

[Percboy]

Yorba Linda/Corona fire gives John Force a scare | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

 

[merc49]

To you SoCal folks, stay safe. We are very concerned for all of you there.

Question: Does anyone know how these fires start? Is it arson? Careless smokers tossing butts out of car windows? Lightning? Does anyone ever get arrested and charged? Back here we never seem to get the cause.

Again, stay safe out there.

Bob