Southern California on fire...again. OT

[47heaven]

I'm sure some of you have heard this on the news already, but we have some new firestorms that started up, locally, yesterday morning. I was in Orange County going home and saw the smoke. On the way home, I drove through Carbon Canyon because the 57 Freeway was backed up, due to the fire. As I drove through Carbon Canyon, I took this shots of the fire, which was burning on the other side of the hills in Yorba Linda at the time. Later in the evening, the fire had moved over the hills into this area, so I don't know how much of this has burned since the photos were taken. Just wanted to show how serious it was and still is.

This is the east approach into Carbon Canyon. From a distance it looked like the fire was burning in the canyon, but it was on the other side of the hill in Yorba Linda. I was able to drive through there because the road was still open and hadn't been closed, yet. Later last night, the fire burned over the hill and is presently burning a lot of that area.

Once I got past the fire area, I turned around and shot these.

This was taken a little farther north, looking back towards where the fire was burning just to see how bad it was. The smoke is so black because a lot of homes were burning in Yorba Linda at the moment.

[Don Coatney]

Thanks for the photos. In 3 hours I will be on a plane headed to San Francisco. Hope there are no fires up north.

[1940plymouth]

You didn't mention how close your home was to the fires, I hope that all is ok with you and yours. Too bad such a thing has to happen

[John Mulders]

Hope you all are safe, when we were driving through the Sequoia park in September there was a fire but we could pass, the airconditioner smelled for days of smoke when we started the car, would then go quickly.

John

[Normspeed]

How sad, the first California town I lived in back in the 60's was Yorba Linda. Back then it was just a little rural burg, not the high dollar town it later became. Hope the fires stay far away from your place Darin.

[1940plymouth]

After the Giants game finished, I switched it to FOX, just in time to watch a C-130 fly low to drop some flame retardent, boy those pilots sure do their business, it looked like they were just above the power lines. They also said that the winds are suppose to die down, sure hope so for everybody out there

[Frank Elder]

C-130 Hercules is one fine aircraft, has served the military and civilian world alike.

[47heaven]

Sorry I didn't get back and answer some questions on here about what happened.

Norm: The fire was pretty far south of me and we didn't get any smoke blowing over here, thanks God! You remember how bad it was in 2003.

40 Plymouth: Thanks for your concern. Fortunately, I live far enough from where the fire was burning.

John: I was worried that I would have to go through smoke in the Plymouth, and with no air conditioning, I would have been inundated with it. I think the smoke would have stayed in the interior, if it had come through the car.

Just a note: I didn't go out chasing the fire. I had no other way to get home except through the canyon, since the freeway was closed. I didn't want you all to think I was a firebug or something. lol It's a good thing I didn't backtrack and take the 91 freeway home or I would have run into this:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9QYT3ASpKSU&feature=related

[Normspeed]

Quite a video Darin. I took this from my neighborhood a few years ago. Too close for comfort.

[47heaven]

Quite a video Darin. I took this from my neighborhood a few years ago. Too close for comfort.

I remember that fire. I watched it burning in San Dimas Canyon that night. That's the one that burned east from Arcadia to San Antonio Canyon, below Mt. Baldy. It was pretty eerie, as I recall.

[Fireball]

We just returned home yesterday from our Covina/Pomona vacation. I have never seen so much smoke in my life. One day you could see the mountain silhouttes, and then on another it was like there's nothing in the horizon.

Still they shot fireworks at Fairplex on sunday when the race was over, that amazed me how they were allowed to do that? Those planes flew for days from the nearby airport, looked like an nonstop action. I feel sorry for those who lost their houses, they said in news here that some college kids and their bonfire was the origin this time?

[Don Coatney]

For more fire photos follow this link.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/california_wildfires_yet_again.html

[47heaven]

We just returned home yesterday from our Covina/Pomona vacation. I have never seen so much smoke in my life. One day you could see the mountain silhouttes, and then on another it was like there's nothing in the horizon.

Still they shot fireworks at Fairplex on sunday when the race was over, that amazed me how they were allowed to do that? Those planes flew for days from the nearby airport, looked like an nonstop action. I feel sorry for those who lost their houses, they said in news here that some college kids and their bonfire was the origin this time?

The bonfire was the one that started the Montecino fire up by Santa Barbara. The one near Pomona is still under investigation. They say it may have been arson...since two fires had started within a few hours and miles of each other.

[Don Jordan]

I work in Sylmar in the Angeles National Forrest - in the fire last week a trailer park caught fire and almost 500 homes were destroyed. I think about all the junk I have - old books, newspapers, so much old car stuff. I truly can not imagine what it would be like to have everything gone. The fire was so hot it melted the wheels on cars. Fire hoses melted.

People talk about what they would grab. Having more than one car I shutter to think about the choices I would have to make. Some of the fires were so quick people didn't really have much time. My sympathies are with them.

[47heaven]

I work in Sylmar in the Angeles National Forrest - in the fire last week a trailer park caught fire and almost 500 homes were destroyed. I think about all the junk I have - old books, newspapers, so much old car stuff. I truly can not imagine what it would be like to have everything gone. The fire was so hot it melted the wheels on cars. Fire hoses melted.

People talk about what they would grab. Having more than one car I shutter to think about the choices I would have to make. Some of the fires were so quick people didn't really have much time. My sympathies are with them.

Don, I drove by Sylmar last on the way to Northern California and I couldn't believe how much area had burned. I didn't see the trailer park, but I was on Foothill Blvd. and saw homes and trees that had been burned all the way up to the freeway. When I came home, a couple days later, it was raining and I could smell the oder of burnt wood when I passed through there again.