Posted on 09/13/2015 6:51:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Our friends lost their home in this fire. They bugged out and are safe but sad as you can imagine.
How rude to the host of Free Republic.
It is not a USFS fire. It is a CDF fire and is called Valley Fire. The control thing is a little weird. This fire is not on forest service land, yet.
Why is Mexifornia less capable of managing basic civil engineering than pre-civil war Kansas?
Could it be that Kansas is flat as a pancake while California ranges from sea level to over 14,000 feet in elevation with thousands of square miles of rugged wilderness?
Unfortunately he pretty accurate. The tree huggers have prevented anything close to naturally sustainable forests.
Put every fire out RIGHT NOW, and in few decades you so much fuel built up around the homes that the inevitable fire is devastating.
Yes you are correct. I found that out when I searched the
USFS incident site and couldn’t find “Valley Fire”. I went to the Cal Fire site and there it was.
Yes, every time I’m up there, I only seem to see salt of the earth people. I feel sorry for them all.
Not so. These fires are not in forests, they’re in brushlands and scrub. When low humidity and winds cause extremely low fuel moisture combined with high winds there’s no fuel or firebreak that will stop the advance of the fire.
She’s an elementary school teacher, he’s a writer covering the wineries for a local paper and a local musician. Three daughters around middles school age. Good people.
Some brush/scrub, but quite alot of rather impressive forest, too. Cobb Mountain is thick with springs and associated ecosystems. Was once (perhaps) the most famous resort destination in California. Google “Hoberg’s Resort” for a glimpse of what’s been lost.
I know exactly where they are. I grew up there.
Who or what ignited the fire?
I don’t know.
What a f@cking idiot you are for politicizing this terrible event. Stupid f@ckhead..
As it happens, I lived in California in the early eighties.
Environmental whacko-ism has consequences.
It did when I lived there and nothing had changed when I flew back for a week in 2013.
I choose not to live there because of the Government imposed stupidity.
You can wring your hands and doubt all you want.
At no time ever did I inject politics into the situation.
It would literally be impossible for me to do so.
Weird far leftists injected politics into the situation decades ago by not allowing proper fire breaks to be maintained under the aegis of environmental regulations.
This has caused fires to spread faster and be harder to contain than in other parts of the country with similar terrain.
Pointing it out does not make me the cause.
Valley Fire....
Started in a house next to a church, or so the story goes, up on Cobb Mtn.
I was following it on twitter (#valleyfire).
They say one person has died. To be honest I’m surprised there aren’t more. Although it is still early - but hopefully that is all there is. Still zero percent contained.
This person left Anderson Springs up Hwy 175 on the way to Cobb just a bit later than he should have....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg
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