San Diego Fires, Hoping it's not affecting anyone here Options

[euro911]

I was watching a bit of the news last night (Thursday) and saw a fire report of what I believe they said was in the Escondido area. They showed some footage of a burned house that appeared to have a 914 in the garage (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Hoping it's not one of us 'Worlders' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[Alphaogre]

I'm in the middle of it all with work being in Carlsbad and living in Oceanside which is just south of the camp Pendleton fire. I grew up in this area so I am used to them I guess. People don't realize how many canyons and hills we have that you can not build on do to the shape an grade. So they have brush and are hard to access once they are on fire, and the canyons channel wind to the fire which make it much much worse. This the same reason we are so reliant on our cars, something can be 2 miles away as the crow flies, but driving there it can be 5 or 6 miles away by the time you drive up and down all the canyons and hills.

Have my 914 parked at my buddy's house in Escondido where he was working on it. I'm sure it's covered in what we call California snow (ash). People forget the climate classification for Southern California is a desert. Usually at this time of year we have rain and overcast condsions for the ocean warming up which usually makes what we call May Grey and June Gloom but this yea there has been record drought, heat and wind conditions for this time of year.

When we had these fires about 6 or 7 years ago we lost almost 200 home, this year it's in the teens, and a majority of those home did not have their surrounding area up to code with what we call defensible area which is 20 to 30 feet of ice plant or scubas (sp?) vegetation. Also they were not up to building code with fire resistant materials. I know a couple of the houses that burned were due to people leaving windows open when they evacuated and ambers getting in to the house.

This really has been a better case scenario this time around with preventative efforts and the state being much better organized in its fire service. There is no way that these all were happen stance, pretty much everyone thinks it was arson that started a majority of them, I would have to agree with them.

Posted via iPad and it's awesome auto correct.