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Los Angeles: Fire Forces Evacuations, Burns Homes in Sylmar Area
FOX News ^ | 15 November 2008

Posted on 11/15/2008 2:27:38 AM PST by bd476


Fire Forces Evacuations, Burns Homes in Sylmar Area

Sayre Fire is near the 210 Freeway in Northern Los Angeles.


A dangerous, fast-moving brush fire in the Sylmar section of the San Fernando Valley, spread by gusting 50 mph winds has now burned at least five homes and is threatening several more, City Fire Department spokesperson Melissa Kelly said today.

So far there are no reports of injuries to residents or fire personnel, said Kelly.

The blaze ignited about 10:30 p.m. in the dry, brushy hills above 13000 W. Sayre Street near Shablow Ave, and has so far consumed more than 500 acres.


(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxla.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 0prah; fire; lafd; losangeles; wildfires
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To: Yaelle

Actually.......it’s NOT! And I am NOT complaining!!


221 posted on 11/15/2008 3:42:46 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY!)
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To: Yaelle

That is amazing there is no water pressure in Yorba Linda....like the anchor said...”Those folks pay an extraordinary amount of property taxes each year for fire service...”


222 posted on 11/15/2008 3:43:06 PM PST by BurbankKarl (a)
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To: BurbankKarl

KFI...(a bit ago)...the fire hoses melted to the streets???

Where?


223 posted on 11/15/2008 3:44:04 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Looks like the Yorba Linda fire in moving westward along the valley that the 91 freeway travels through. Also traveling along the hills north and south of the 91.
224 posted on 11/15/2008 3:44:23 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: bd476

Anyone have any idea of how much CO2 emissions are coming from these fires?


225 posted on 11/15/2008 3:45:36 PM PST by dbz77
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To: Spunky

SB fire was reported around 5:45 pm.


226 posted on 11/15/2008 3:45:54 PM PST by califamily4W (Save the baby humans!)
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To: BurbankKarl
If the economy continues to collapse, and city governments go bankrupt, those taxes wont end up getting them anything.
227 posted on 11/15/2008 3:46:02 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Deo volente
The fire is five houses away from her right now.

Why is she still there??!!! Leave, lady, leave!!!

228 posted on 11/15/2008 3:46:58 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Don' need no steenkin' bipartisan..... Oops, have I failed to be "gracious" AGAIN?!!)
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To: BurbankKarl
Another home in that Yorba Linda subdivision with no water pressure just caught fire.
229 posted on 11/15/2008 3:53:31 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: La Enchiladita

As to houses as fuel: If it has a shake roof, yes, it is fuel. Shake roofs are perfect tinder for wind-blown embers.


230 posted on 11/15/2008 3:54:57 PM PST by NVDave
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To: All
To all those in SCal, especially those either in the path of these fires or with family & friends in harm's way, may God Bless you, Protect you & Comfort you!

Prayers, understanding and good wishes are all that we can send you right now from here in NCal and from FR!

231 posted on 11/15/2008 3:55:01 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta

Global Fireball - Al Qaeda Planning New Environmental Terror Attack “Forest Jihad”
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/21/global-fireball-al-qaeda-planning-new-environmental-terror-attack/ ^ | Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 7:47:58 PM by Sammy67

Extremists are threatening an environmental disaster by sparking a series of catastrophic wild fires. We first posted on this last year.

Western intelligence agencies fear that Al Qaeda terrorists are planning a “global fireball” in a new departure in its war on the West.

Deliberately lighting forest blazes in Europe, the US and Australia would not only stretch emergency services but leave insurance companies facing multi-billion pound damage bills as the credit crunch bites.

The fires would also create a pollution disaster, with billions tons of climate change gases escaping into the atmosphere.

The so-called “forest jihad” is being championed by Islamic scholars and Osama Bin Laden’s terror strategists who believe setting fire to dry woodlands will produce maximum damage for minimum risk.

Western security services have picked up internet chatter which spells out in

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalterroralert.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132400/posts


232 posted on 11/15/2008 3:55:34 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
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LA County FD crews moving into Tonner Canyon for mop up from earlier fire near landfill by Chino/Brea per scanner


233 posted on 11/15/2008 3:57:13 PM PST by spectr17 (What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?)
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I-5 about to be reopened per LA County FD.


234 posted on 11/15/2008 4:00:28 PM PST by spectr17 (What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?)
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To: hole_n_one

OMG WOW, those pics are unbelievable.

Thanks for posting fir those of us out here in the rest of the country.


235 posted on 11/15/2008 4:00:33 PM PST by WestCoastGal (READ MY LIPSTICK!!! Sarah will be back.)
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To: hole_n_one

Yes, ditto the thanks for the pics. ^5


236 posted on 11/15/2008 4:01:41 PM PST by spectr17 (What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?)
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To: Brad's Gramma

The fire hoses melted inside that trailer park in Sylmar....after the firefighters dropped them and ran for their lives


237 posted on 11/15/2008 4:03:43 PM PST by BurbankKarl (a)
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To: BurbankKarl

Is it true they lost about 600 homes there today?


238 posted on 11/15/2008 4:06:08 PM PST by WestCoastGal (READ MY LIPSTICK!!! Sarah will be back.)
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To: BurbankKarl

FOX News has the Yorba Linda Water District guy on the phone....says the pump station burned down.

There should be a water tank on the top of the hill!


239 posted on 11/15/2008 4:06:58 PM PST by BurbankKarl (a)
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240 posted on 11/15/2008 4:08:33 PM PST by hole_n_one
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