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| Thread ID: 73622 | 2006-10-26 15:40:00 | Bad Fires Here In San Jacinto Mountains, California | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 494577 | 2007-03-13 01:35:00 | Actually, Anaheim is a good 50 miles from here . . . but we do have another fire running in Lake Matthews . . . which is a tad closer by about 20 miles . . . but it too, is not a threat . We honestly expect to see some record breaking fires this season . . . no rain . . . less than 2 inches where there shouldda been 12 or 15 or so . . . remember that we get most of our water from the Colorado River . . which is being shut off to Southern California real soon! The hills are alive with dead fauna . . (a little joke to Julie Andrews there) . . but they are dead dead dead and will burn with the speed of Triple F gunpowder . The humidity here in Hemet today is 4%, and it is nice for the sinuses, but a killer to the growing things . . even crops are withered . We live in a pretty safe area . . . after all, we've had a lot of small fires here in the last 1/2 year, and that takes away a lot of the underbrush that is so dangerous . I do not feel we are in a danger at all . . unless firebrands can fly over 1 mile or so . . even then, we are safe as we don't have wood shingles on our homes . If you wanna talk about earthquakes . . then that's a different story . We live right smack dab on the San Jacinto fault, smaller but 'way overdue brother to the San Andreas fault . The higher elevations have a blight in the conifers and they are all dying . . but I think it's a natural thing for them to cycle out now and let the deciduous trees take over for a while . . . . maybe the next millennium or so . People are all the time trying to save the evergreens . . . but it's a losing battle with no water, borer beetles (no offense Beetle) and wildlands mismanagement . Smokey the Bear (http://www . smokeybear . com/) is wrong . . . he is the mascot of the US Forestry Service . . and he says: "Only YOU can prevent forest fires" . . . but what he did was keep the small fires from burning and clearing the land so there wouldn't be such a total conflagration when fire DOES hit . When the settlers got here, the Indians didn't have fire fighters or even the need for them . Fires burned from one spot to water or a natural boundary, and the land was verdant and fertile and forested as far as they could see . Off my soapbox now . . . |
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| 494578 | 2007-03-13 01:45:00 | Its very sad that firefighters have died trying to save other peoples property. | Buff_K (691) | ||
| 494579 | 2007-03-13 01:51:00 | The real sad part is that the fires of late have all been by pyromaniacs or criminals destroying evidence of car theft...that's a real loss of life. The firefighting job's tough...and 'way outta my league...but I truly admire those who do it for me. |
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