LAC residents: Check in (3 Viewers)

[yoda]

Some serious tragedies going on in the home of our sport at the moment.

L.A. Local 'Maters: When you can, check in and let us know if we can assist y'all. Stay safe, have that Go bag in place, and move when they tell you to.

 

[Cliff]

Watching fires on TV. Was within 2000' of Hollywood Blvd last nite. Grew up in Glendale, not too far from Altedena fire.

 

[glofria]

So far all clear here. The winds have died down quite a bit, but the damage is done.

Anyone who's driven a open cockpit car and forgote to drop their viser can relate to these winds.

 

[Dragracer]

Am in the Inland Empire (Menifee) and the wind has just started. It's gusting at 25-30 and it's supposed to pick up significantly throughout the day thru friday. Hope the fires stay away.

 

[Ramjet]

We are about 120/130 Straight Line miles from there and SCE (Edison) is already sending us notices 3 times a day so far that if the wind picks up or even forcasts to a certain point they are going to shut down all power to the area on the spot. The only good (?) thing right here is that almost everything around us has already burned. No one is following the no clearing the under growth rule which just acts as fire starter material.

 

[LAZYC]

We are about 120/130 Straight Line miles from there and SCE (Edison) is already sending us notices 3 times a day so far that if the wind picks up or even forcasts to a certain point they are going to shut down all power to the area on the spot. The only good (?) thing right here is that almost everything around us has already burned. No one is following the no clearing the under growth rule which just acts as fire starter material.

In Shadow Hills just east of SFV no fire but lots of smoke, Tuesday night was a real scary night high winds and power hits all night, left a mess of branches and leaves, already filled two large green barrels with the leftover ****, it's not over yet, been thru this before, but this one is really scary.

 

[BamBam2140]

I live about 20 minutes from Pomona Dragway, My wife’s 84 year old Grandma lives up in Alta Dena and received a mandatory evacuation at around 3:00am Tuesday, My wife and I went to pick her up and arrived around 4:30am, It was like Hell on earth up there, We could see the fire was very close and the winds felt like Hurricane Force winds, Very low visibility because of the smoke, Police cars and firefighters driving around everywhere, All of the other residents of the neighborhood were leaving at the same time and due to traffic it took us quite awhile to get out of there, Thankfully her home was spared But a lot of homes on the other side of her street were burned

 

[Fueler1]

I live 3miles from the Ventura blvd small fire that popped up last night and thankfully they got that out quick. Very Smokey here

 

[chop]

We are about 120/130 Straight Line miles from there and SCE (Edison) is already sending us notices 3 times a day so far that if the wind picks up or even forcasts to a certain point they are going to shut down all power to the area on the spot. The only good (?) thing right here is that almost everything around us has already burned. No one is following the no clearing the under growth rule which just acts as fire starter material.

Why does the government not allow clearing of underbrush?

 

[Professional Fan]

My daughter's family evacuated from Santa Monica two days ago. She thinks their house is OK so far.

 

[Randy]

Why does the government not allow clearing of underbrush?

They have decided that nature should take care of itself. Not too many years ago a fire started above Shasta City and they decided to let it burn because it was caused by nature (lightning strike). When it started burning down homes and business they decided to fight it. Only problem was it was so big by the time they decided to fight it, it was devastating.

There's a family near San Diego that cleared brush behind their home in an effort to be responsible, and were fined over $53,000 for doing it. The family got the local NBC News affiliate involved and they reduced the fine to $9,000.

City of San Diego fines family $53,367 for clearing brush in nature preserve behind home

The City of San Diego fined a family $53,367 after a homeowner cleared away brush in a city-owned nature preserve. The family say it was done to reduce wildfire risks by creating defensible space.

www.nbcsandiego.com

Back years ago when I was a kid, I remember they would allow people to gather firewood on the floors in the national forests, they would do controlled burns during off season to reduce risks of out of control wildfires, and they would maintain at risk areas to avoid all this. The environmentalists fought, maintaining that doing this was destroying the planet. Under the current leadership in California they've gone nuts, cutting off water, and cutting fire department budgets.