Here is a photo I took outside my house
of the sun of 3 fires 20 miles from my house. Spooky and awesome looking.
Sandy Frost:eek:
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Here is a photo I took outside my house
of the sun of 3 fires 20 miles from my house. Spooky and awesome looking.
Sandy Frost:eek:
WOW! Amazing. Please be safe. The stories are pretty horrific. I feel badly for my high school friend who lives in San Diego because he was badly burned fighting a fire in South Dakota when he was a smoke jumper. This has got to bring back some pretty bad memories. He lives out there because he only has 2/3 of his lung capacity left. Pretty scary stuff.
I've been following this on the news. First we get it up here then CA gets plagued. I did hear that some of the CA fires were sparked by arson. True or not??
All you people from the firezone have to be diligent in checking in all the time here so we know you are OK. Please??
Dear California friends........please, please, please stay safe. I am so worried about all of you. :(
Stay safe all of you Southern Californians! :eek:
One of the fires was started by a lost hunter as a siginal fire and he is in jail now. Everyone I know is alright but One of the ladies at work had to leave because her house was in danger. I work at a chain drugstore and all day yesterday I was selling merchandise to customers who had to leave their homes and they all made in out fine. But I'm still sad as one lady customer told me she saw the fire in her backyard and she grabbed her cat and left. Her house must be burned down now. One man was complaining how he lost his truck. I told him thank goodness you're alive. As me I live in Pont Loma near lots of water. I'm fine and so our my 3 cats.
Sandy:eek: ;)
I'm glad you're safe Sandy! My Aunt lives in Jamul (southeast of San Diego) and my sister is in Corona. Linn, my sister, wrote me and sent me these pics.
We're kinda near the wildfires but we aren't close enough for worry. They started about 25 miles north west of here are have been moving south. For the past couple days there has been a huge smoke cloud in the sky and everything smells like smoke. There are bits of ash everywhere - my car is filthy! Today it's starting to clear up and it just looks hazy. I heard that the fires have moved into San Diego county but as far as I know they aren't near Aunt Jan. Nick and I were in San Diego on Saturday and everything looked fine there (we stopped by Aunt Jans but she wasn't home, so I left a note and we visited with the horses).
Nick took some pictures of outside with my digital camera - i've attached them so you can see the lovely smoke filled view we've had (these were taken from the balcony).
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Amazing photos but so scary!!:eek: Sandy, Jackie, all of you S. Californians, be safe please! I hope and pray nothing happens to your homes, but your personal safety is most important! We're all thinking of you.
*sigh* Those palm trees! I love San Diego. :p He he he Not going to DARE go there right now though! Very interesting pics......yet scary at the same time. :eek:
http://www.dailynews.com/
You can see pictures of all the affected areas
by looking to the right side of the page under
the "galleries" section.
In the LA basin you can smell smoke from the San Bernardino fires, about 30 miles away.
The Simi Fire is about 10 miles away from my house, I could see the flames from my front yard.
We were discussing the victims of the fires and we came to the conclusion that-
You watched you home burn to the ground
or you were able to save your house by fighting
the fire.
You are out of town and do not know if your house
was saved or burned.
You are asked to evacuate and do not know if your
home was safe or burned.
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The saddest story is one of a 93 year old man who collapsed and died while watching his home burn.
I can't even imagine how devasting it much be to watch your only home and all it's possessions burn to the ground. No wonder he collapsed. :(Quote:
Originally posted by RICHARD
The saddest story is one of a 93 year old man who collapsed and died while watching his home burn.
Does anyone know if there are animal rescue groups out there rescuing pets?? This summer the SPCA along with an organization called Noah's Wish worked together in the Interior BC rescuing people's pets along with horses, cattle, etc. My friend is part of Noah's Wish and she came back with some horrible and happy stories.
Those pictures are over whelming, they almost have a spooky feel to them. Please stay safe everyone out there, my thoughts are with you and yours.
Very sad, very sad indeed. :(
Please stay safe everyone.
Those pictures are scary, and I feel so terrible for those who are losing their homes--I saw a couple on the Today show this morning, whose home had burnt down--they were having a hard time even speaking about it--Thank God, they and their children were ok.
I hope someone is looking out for any pets in the area, and that everyone will stay safe.
Radio station have been announcing where you can take or look for animals in the fire areas.
Some shelters are putting up areas where the animal can be kept close to the owners.
The area near the Simi fire is dotted with horse
stables-people have been volunteering trailers and vehicles to help move the horse in the affected areas.
I feel so bad for the pets. A couple on tv were shown by their burnt house and their dead kitty was outside burnt. :( I would have taken the cat with me. :( I just burst into tears.
I head the story of the old man too, so very very sad it made me cry. :( Poor man. :(
How SCARY!! As I posted in Julie's thread, I would be scared to death. Please stay safe!
I've had all of you in my thoughts today & glad it hasn't affected any of your homes. I can't imagine what it would be like for the sun to be covered by the smoke:(
PCB, I heard on the news that beautiful palm trees were actually responsible for some of the fires spreading. When they ignite, there are huge sparks that blow off of them and ignite a home or other property.
The evening news said that cooler weather is on its way and even RAIN by the weekend.........this is only Monday.
Can you imagine being so sick of mind that you would intentionally set a fire so you could go home and watch it on television?
Some of them were started out of stupidity - the guy in the forest hunting - got lost and started a fire so his buddy could see it.
Of course, you know that I hope all of our pet talk friends are safe as well as their pets and homes.
*But I like beautiful palm trees* :(
San Diego is FULL of them.
You mean.......PEOPLE started these fires? :eek: Gosh people can be so evil! :(
I know Noahs mommy is in Southern CA, but have no idea what city she's in. Does anyone know how she's doing?
This is so terrible. I can't even imagine the destruction and the sadness and the terrible smell. The smoke must get into your lungs! I hope none of you have asthma. Are you able to keep the insides of your homes relatively smoke-free?
My heart goes out to all as we suffered this summer with our fires in the park and all around us 7 mile diamter. Please cover your faces and be careful about breathing in the ash and smoke. we had toxic air lots of people have respatory poblems. Your in our prayers.
Noah's Mommy lives south and west of where one of the fires is raging.
Her area is probably alright, but I bet she is getting a lot of ash and smoke. And I would think the shelter she works at is overloaded.
Thanks fo0r your wonderful post. Good to iknow your relitives are safe. THose photos are awesome. THhanks for sharing.
Sandy Frost
I live in Point Loma and I'm safe.
Kohala is close to where I live and she is alright. I don't know about jackies' dasiy35. I hope she is alright.
Sandy Frost:p
jackisdaisy35 is alright. In just got an e-mail from her. She is near the southern fire but she is safe. PHEW!
Sandy Frost:p
This is so dreadful
My heart goes out to all those people affected.
Hope all our Pet Talk family are safe and sound.
PCB - last I heard from NoahsMommy she was OK.
Lynne
Thanks for the update Sandy! Good to know our PT'ers are safe. :)
And I hope everyone continues to stay safe and that they don't have to evacuate their homes.
The devestation is so horrible... :(
It seems the whole of San Diego has been burning. Just a tragic thing to happen. Over 260,000 acres have burned, over I believe 300 homes and possibly 11 to 13 people have died. Many of them in their car trying to outrun the fire. Two elderly people jumped in their swimming pool to save their lives. They are finding charred pets in the burned out homes, and they are trying to find any animal that is loose and scared. There are many, many evacuation areas for people to go to.
We live about two or three miles from the bay and lots of green around us, the closest fire to us is the Otay Lakes fire which is about 15 miles from us, but no worry here.
Our daughter Lorie is in New York with her husband visiting his parents and her neighbor called us to say they were being evacuated, so our family went to her house met Jeff's swat team friend and they broke into the house and saved as many valuables and brought all of their vehicles to our house. They finally let everyone back into San Carlos and they are due home today so it turned out o.k.
Our older daughter has her stepdaughter, grandaughter and husband as they were also evacuated from Kearney mesa.
The ash is horrible, you can see it falling like snow.
The problem is that our resources were stretched so thin, most of our San Diego area fire people were up in L.A. fighting the fire there when this fire broke out and the fire people up there would not release them to come down to fight this fire in their own territory and of course we had no helocopters, no water bombers and not many firemen, they were all up in L.A. The fire then just
spread wildly from the East almost to the ocean.
Many firemen and police lost their homes too
Our dogs are fine, we kept them inside and only brought them out to do their duty, things are looking much better now, we can actually see the sun, yesterday the day was like night.
Jackie, Perry and Daisy
I talked to Kelly, Noah's Mommy last night and they are fine as well as her Mom and Grandmother who were closer to the fires.
I turned on the television this morning and immediately saw pictures of huge flames. What is so sad is that I had to wait a minute to learn WHICH fire they were talking about - there are so many going on at once.
Sandy, thanks for letting us know that you and Jackie are fine, I thought about you both and hoped that you were safe.
Hi, everyone. It's Tuesday morning and the fires are definately not over yet--there are at least two main ones still burning in east San Deigo county. The amount of smoke in the air is incredible; at my house you can barely see down the block from the smoke and there is a thin layer of ash covering everything. The smoke smell does come in the house, but it's not as bad as outside. They are telling people to stay indoors for health reasons.
I was out of town when this started, and heard on the news about the fires. It was hard to get information about which specifc areas were threatened, so it was very scary. Oreo was staying at a kennel, which is near the coast so she was safe. Kona was at my home, with planned visits from my family. I got a call from my sister that she had to evacuate Kona from my house late Sunday night. Our neighborhood was told to evacuate, but we have returned and there wasn't any damage. I drove home Monday morning as fast as I could, but you could imagine how long those 5 hours seemed!
I stayed home from work today in case K & O need to leave again. This is really stressful!
ramanth--I grew up in Jamul and my parents still live there. I know that last night some parts of Jamul were evacuated so the fire crews could start backfires to gain more control. Those area have since been re-opened and seem safe for now. My thoughts are with your aunt. PM me if you want to know about specific areas.
My heart goes out to you and all the people in So. California. I hope you all remain safe and this horrible fire can be controlled soon, without any more loss of life.
Please take care.
Alicia
My thoughts and prayers are with all of you in California. Please stay safe.
I think that Gray Davis is lighting the fires to get back at the voters.....:eek:
R I C H A R D!!
Quote:
Originally posted by gini
R I C H A R D!!
SORRY....
Yeah, like you didn't think you would get a rise out of somebody!
Bad boy!! Very bad boy!
RICHARD! LAUGH OUT LOUD!
WAY TO GO!
SANDY FROST:D
Again, I apologize.
After a certain point the horror of it all points you into the direction of macabre humor.
Also, it's the frustration of seeing your immediate world on fire.
It was meant as a little jab at Davis and his
well meaning, but late, interaction with the people of the state...
Don't say that!!! Maybe he likes to be spanked.....Quote:
Originally posted by gini
Bad boy!! Very bad boy!
oops, did I just say that.....sorry
Richard is right! Grey Davis has been EVERYWHERE.....all smiles and ever so friendly.
Maybe he is just relieved that he can get out from under the mess he is leaving.
Spanking, sorry Slick, I am not going there:D :D