LA wildfires
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LA is burning again. This one is bad. 200,000 people evacuated. One fire is near the Getty Center, which has tons of priceless works of art. The freeway near it is closed. This is a live video but you can scroll back to see earlier footage.
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Re: LA wildfires
This (and the Tennessee, and NorCal, Oregon etc etc fires) would be big national news in recent times, but now only seems to be momentarily or regionally newsworthy.
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Just got a notification on my phone that former Cardinal Anthony Reyes is fighting the wildfires from the front lines. He became a firefighter (I think for LA county) a year or two ago after he retired from baseball.
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What a terrible thing to have to go through. Hope they get some help from the weather soon.
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It is nuts. There are like 5 burning just near LAFreed Roger wrote:This (and the Tennessee, and NorCal, Oregon etc etc fires) would be big national news in recent times, but now only seems to be momentarily or regionally newsworthy.
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Google now has a feature called "crisis map".
http://google.org/crisismap/2017-ventur ... %2C16%2C17
http://google.org/crisismap/2017-ventur ... %2C16%2C17
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Re: LA wildfires
that helps put it in perspective. that is a massive amount in that ventura area. my brother and his family lived in nearby thousand oaks for a few years but have been in KC for the last 4 or 5.
its probably been seen but there was scary footage of people just driving on the highway but to the left (on screen) was just massive flames and smoke and the sky was an orange/red.
its probably been seen but there was scary footage of people just driving on the highway but to the left (on screen) was just massive flames and smoke and the sky was an orange/red.
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Re: LA wildfires
Was working with a group of firefighters from across the country this week up in Buffalo. Three of them are headed back to LA. They've got some long days ahead.
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I think this is the podcast I heard where they cover a controlled burn. Has to be proper conditions, but seems like it is pretty uneventful, and effective. Native Americans did it routinely or ritualistically. No idea how much they can do this near neighborhoods enough to make a dent.
I beleive they did one in Forest Park a couple years ago. Ran thru a control burn area on a few trail races.
http://outsideinradio.org/shows/2018/8/ ... ine-barren
I beleive they did one in Forest Park a couple years ago. Ran thru a control burn area on a few trail races.
http://outsideinradio.org/shows/2018/8/ ... ine-barren
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Re: wildfires
Here in Ashland, they've been controlled burning for the last several years. And this past summer it paid dividends. The second week of July there was an electrical storm that started 70 small fires, several of which blew up into the major fires that burned for about 2 months. Though we had terrible air quality for that time, Ashland was spared fire because the starts from lightening in the forests around here didn't develop into long lasting fires.Freed Roger wrote:I think this is the podcast I heard where they cover a controlled burn. Has to be proper conditions, but seems like it is pretty uneventful, and effective. Native Americans did it routinely or ritualistically. No idea how much they can do this near neighborhoods enough to make a dent.
I beleive they did one in Forest Park a couple years ago. Ran thru a control burn area on a few trail races.
http://outsideinradio.org/shows/2018/8/ ... ine-barren
As far as I'm concerned controlled burns have been proven effective.