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hunter

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4. When my family lived in Southern California...

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Wed May 14, 2014, 12:47 PM

May 2014

... one of these nasty fires almost took our next door neighbor's house.

As a fearless (and stupid) young man I was spraying water under the eaves of our neighbors house. (The roof was tile, fortunately. The house was built when wood shake was still legal. A house with a wood roof wouldn't have survived. It was also built before eaves had to be fire resistant.)

Once the fire had passed My face and hands looked and felt sunburned.

The fire killed all the trees on the edges of our orchard and destroyed the irrigation system.

I also saw a huge eucalyptus tree explode.

I'm not a "save our trees" kind of guy when they take eucalyptus trees down because of the fire danger.

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To all southern Californians under red flag [View all] nadinbrzezinski May 2014 OP

The winds here have been absolutely brutal the last few weeks. Initech May 2014 #1

Comparatively speaking winds were not an issue when those started. nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #2

Phoenix the new windy city. StarryNite May 2014 #11

Stay safe! Tommy_Carcetti May 2014 #3

When my family lived in Southern California... hunter May 2014 #4

It's a tinderbox PasadenaTrudy May 2014 #5

We have three extended attacks so far nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #6

I haven't heard PasadenaTrudy May 2014 #7

Take into account, listening to the actual scanner nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #8

The Bernardo Fire grew to 1548 acres (with 25% containment) per Cal Fire 9:15 am update pinboy3niner May 2014 #9

Right now we have one in Pendleton-Fallbrook nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #12

Breaking on CNN: Part of Camp Pendleton being evacuated due to a fire pinboy3niner May 2014 #10

I will give you details, it is putting the Camino de Luz housing in base nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #13

Carlsbad notifications reverse 911 nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #21

Oh and it is 100 acres now nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #16

I was wondering if you were okay. I'm so glad you posted. I tried to do a search but couldn't okaawhatever May 2014 #14

If we have a nice start in the East County I am going nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #15

Structures have been lost, reportedly at Carlsbad nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #17

Ok folks evacuations are in place nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #18

Oh and new start nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #19

On a personal note, having done the radio dance in the past nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #20

NATIONAL RESOURCES and FIRES nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #22

Strike teams sent to the highway fire nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #23

From cal fire nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #24

And we might have a fire explodiing in the south east county nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #25

It is in Mexico nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #29

We had a 700 acre fire in Lompoc yesterday upaloopa May 2014 #26

Fifth major attack nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #27

link to map with fire locations nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #28

these are three of the five fires nadinbrzezinski May 2014 #30