Posted on 11/15/2008 2:27:38 AM PST by bd476
Cindydawg sent the link to the arrested man’s thread in post 29 above.
I did a little research and find lots of terror there and prior incidents by them in Los Angeles, years ago.
I did not check the list for fire, should have, you will understand when you read the thread, why the links are interesting...LOL, to me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2133037/posts?page=33#33
Of course some showed up:
“IT is Valencia Avenue in Brea, CA, it leads to Carbon Canyon Road and then you take Carbon Canyon to Chino Hills, this is the old Pre-57 FWY route over the hill, before that you had Carbon Canyon Road and Brea Canyon Road to Diamond Bar.”
And further to the west, Fullerton Road crosses the hills.
Grew up along the south side of this range of hills, and there were fires every few years in the 50s and 60s.
The east-west hills which include Diamond Bar, Sleepy Hollow, Chino Hills are called the “Puente Hills.”
This range joins the Santa Ana Mountains at approximately Anaheim Hills.
Lowe’s having a sale on belt sanders for the looters. Set on high speed and broadcast the screaming on the news.
KCAL showing a surge in the Diamond Bar fire, and new footage of fire in Placerita Canyon in the last 30 minutes
We’re in Simi Valley and were five minutes from evacuating in 2003. Now I’ve learned that when it’s hot and the winds are bad to be prepared to go, because you never know. When I wake up in the night (if I actually manage to get to sleep), I check the sky in every direction for any sign of danger. I’ve lived with blizzards in Buffalo, earthquakes in Alaska, hurricanes in Florida, and tsunami warnings in Hawaii. Fires scare me more than anything.
smart move.
Some fine seat of the pants flying going on up at Placerita Canyon on the news now (Sylmar Fire). CH 9. Some good pilots putting it on the X there. Same for Diamond Bar. Wild stuff.
If we get the usual afternoon wind shift Diamond Bar/Chino are off to the races again. Diamond Bar/Chino/Corona now a “Complex” fire. A “fire complex” is when 2 fires merge.
watching it over the internet. very amazing see the choppers and planes doing their drops. they keep calling it an aerial ballet. that fits! :)
“The Santa Anas (Desert Winds) are a dry wind. Caused by High pressure sitting over Nevada and California Deserts. Has not been excessively warm. Actually very nice if you are not near a fire. Was much hotter earlier in the year when we had some humid weather come up from the south. 80-90 with humidity is difficult. 80-90 with low humidity is nice.”
I believe if you study further, you will learn the origin of these winds is instead the “Great Basin” or “Colorado Plateau” over Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico (not the California/Nevada desert).
http://www.noaawatch.gov/2008/santa_ana.php
“watching it over the internet. very amazing see the choppers and planes doing their drops. they keep calling it an aerial ballet. that fits! :)”
We were in Costa Mesa a couple of hours ago, and saw a plane landing at John Wayne (OC airport).
Landing opposite from the normal direction, because of the wind diretion.
We had earlier thought the planes might be flying out of Ontario.
Probably using both.
some really touching stories they showed earlier. the lady that was the manager of the mobile home park, had lived there 29 (?) years and lost everything except an American flag that the firefighters gave back to her. a little scorched, but still pretty much intact, and she was thankful for that.
Am I nuts to think that some of these raging fires might be traced to the homosexual radicals?
i though so too... bumbed out the charges lost
the air tankers use Palmdale Fox Field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Field
or
Riverside Ryan Air Tanker Base http://www.rvcfire.org/opencms/facilities/RyanAir/
Airtanker 910 (DC 10) uses the old George AFB....or SoCalLogisticalAirport
http://www.logisticsairport.com/page.aspx
Oh Karl...
That was hard to watch. I didn’t realize the FF were so close and breathing that stuff.
Very sweet post! Thank you so much!
Did the Prado Range in south Chino make it? There is also the Oranco Bowmen (archers) who have a range and clubhouse right next door along the est side of hwy 71 at 91 intersection. It’s where the 84 Olympics shooters were.
http://www.shootprado.com/index.asp
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