2020 Fires

[Mothertucker]

The Apple fire blew up today in Southern California. This is a daily time lapse video from the top of Bear Mountain by our local weather guy. About 2 mins, scary. http://socalmountains.com/timelapse/sang.mp4

 

[Tricia]

Wow, at about 1:10 there was nothing then by 1:15 it was raging!

 

[Mothertucker]

The time lapse cam is located in the center of this pic I took today out on the bike.

 

[VickieH]

Wow! 12,000 acres burned in one day.

 

[socalgal]

And, fire season starts with a bang.

 

[Rostapher]

We drove by on I-10 yesterday (Aug 1st) around 10:30a and a large portion of the hillside north of Beaumont was smoking. We could still see the huge smoke plume when we got home.

 

[Mothertucker]

A friend sent me this from his motorcycle ride yesterday.

 

[Mothertucker]

The Apple fire blew up today in Southern California. This is a daily time lapse video from the top of Bear Mountain by our local weather guy. About 2 mins, scary. http://socalmountains.com/timelapse/sang.mp4

This is a YouTube video of the Apple fire blowup August 1st, original link broken. Yesterday another fire started to the west of the now 95% contained Apple.

 

[Tricia]

I'm trying realy hard to not complain about the smoke that's had us socked in because we're not IN the fire, but its getting tiresome to not be able to be active in all the bad air quality.

 

[Mothertucker]

We are in a strange weather/smoke pattern here, high pressure taking smoke to the coast, then being pushed North. Record high temperature of 87° in BIg Bear yesterday, just 40 miles away in Palm Springs it was 122°. Smoke pics today.

 

[MountainMonster]

California's atrocious year for wildfires just became the worst in state history as far as the amount of land scorched. And it's only September.
More than 2,094,955 acres have burned across the state this year.

California sets new record for land torched by wildfires as 224 people escape by air from a 'hellish' inferno

Hundreds of people narrowly escaped the fast-moving Creek Fire after it blocked the only road out of a popular recreation spot. Now residents in parts of Fresno County must evacuate.

www.cnn.com

 

[crgildart]

California wildfire started because of pyrotechnics at gender reveal gathering: CalFire

Cal Fire officials did not identify who hosted the party and if the hosts will be held responsible for the fire.

www.ktvu.com

 

[Andy Mink]

California wildfire started because of pyrotechnics at gender reveal gathering: CalFire

Cal Fire officials did not identify who hosted the party and if the hosts will be held responsible for the fire.

www.ktvu.com

And they've already bred.

 

[crgildart]

And they've already bred.

Congratulations... It's a ... DISASTER!

 

[Andy Mink]

Congratulations... It's a ... DISASTER!

I saw one where "congrats, it's a dragon"!

 

[MountainMonster]