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Update: Now 4 Firefighters Perish Battling Cabazon Blaze (Investigators: Arson Fire Palm Springs)
Los Angeles Times ^
| 11:20 AM PDT, October 26, 2006
| Michael Muskal and Maeve Reston
Posted on 10/26/2006 11:48:53 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: Arizona Carolyn; A CA Guy; Knitting A Conundrum; NormsRevenge; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Sonar5; ...
Good morning.
$100,000 reward being offered to turn in the fiend who set the fire and murdered 4 firefighters, with one severely injured ff clinging to life.
One of the killed men was a 20-year veteran of his fire department.
Latest information was that they were outside of their engine -- trying to save a house -- when engulfed by a firestorm.
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posted on
10/27/2006 5:53:51 AM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God bless America, land that I love. NEVER FORGET ... Some Gave All ...)
To: radar101
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posted on
10/27/2006 5:54:36 AM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God bless America, land that I love. NEVER FORGET ... Some Gave All ...)
To: La Enchiladita; All
Okay, I don't know if you have the local news but here is what they are reporting
The Fire Fighter was burned 90% of his/her body.
24K acres consumed
No let up on the winds before tomorrow.
10 structures destroyed including 5 homes
5% Contained
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posted on
10/27/2006 6:13:46 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: A CA Guy
I agree. Terrorism in another form and one that's well nigh unstoppable. They don't need planes.
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posted on
10/27/2006 6:26:57 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: La Enchiladita
The Morongo's a high rise, right?
Yep, about the only thing over two stories in that area, beside the dinosaurs. Looks like a Vegas hotel plopped down in the middle of the desrt.
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posted on
10/27/2006 6:47:28 AM PDT
by
itsamelman
(“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
To: A CA Guy
There are so many firebugs out there that it is too soon to guess...
I wouldn't be shocked, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was set by some guy who was hoping that there would be one more fire this season so he could get some more work.
(There are at least one or two cases like that every year in the last several years.)
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posted on
10/27/2006 6:49:40 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum; All
There si now another fire on the 74 Orange County side, Ortega highway is closed, I just heard it on the radio, KFROG.
That's another area that hasn't seen fire in a long time.
I'm getting ticked off here.......
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posted on
10/27/2006 7:26:36 AM PDT
by
Sonar5
(62 Million+ have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
To: Sonar5
Started yesterday afternoon, I believe.
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posted on
10/27/2006 7:41:18 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum; All
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posted on
10/27/2006 7:50:37 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: markman46
Got it confused with two other fires yesterday afternoon. My bad! No coffee yet!
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posted on
10/27/2006 8:01:13 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Hey KAC, no problem.. I know to many things going on at once..
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posted on
10/27/2006 8:08:23 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: kellynla
10 structures destroyed including 5 homes Seems like lite damage considering the size and speed of this fire....
To: Hildy
Pioneertown is about 30 minutes away near Yucca Valley.
I think that area has pretty much has been ravished by fire from last summer.
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posted on
10/27/2006 8:48:48 AM PDT
by
TaraP
To: All
News crews are set up to broadcast from the parking lot of the Banning Community Center on San Gorgonio Avenue as flames from the Esperanza Fire rage across hills above Banning past sunset on Thursday, October 26.
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posted on
10/27/2006 8:56:16 AM PDT
by
TaraP
To: Johnny Gage
"KMG-365"
Flashback to my childhood... "KMG-365 on the air with a signal 13". My Dad, grandfather and uncle were volunteer firefighters in LI, NY.
Prayers up for these heroes and their families, as well as the victims.
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posted on
10/27/2006 9:03:11 AM PDT
by
kkmo9
(Mr KK: "How'd you get them so clean?" 10 yo kkid: "I licked 'um!")
To: La Enchiladita
"I don't know how the survivor is hanging on; hope he is unconscious."
IIRC, La Dita, they induce a coma with drugs for a while for people who are severely burned. I'm not sure when their bodies start really feeling the pain... but I believe they go from major pain to numb, back and forth.
May God bless him.
Prayers up for So Cal...
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posted on
10/27/2006 9:08:13 AM PDT
by
kkmo9
(Mr KK: "How'd you get them so clean?" 10 yo kkid: "I licked 'um!")
To: kkmo9
Fire is west of Highway 79 at the dump....wherever that is! They are trying to stomp it out there.
To: BurbankKarl
What's this? Firefighters find wind too high, stand down. ??
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posted on
10/27/2006 10:01:39 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: La Enchiladita
That's what I heard as well, the one survivor burned over 95% of his body.
To: markman46
Oh, dear... I've got adult kids that live on the Riverside end of the 74...
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posted on
10/27/2006 10:14:51 AM PDT
by
kkmo9
(Mr KK: "How'd you get them so clean?" 10 yo kkid: "I licked 'um!")
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