Edited to Add: If you’re smelling smoke, put on a face mask (N95 if available): you do NOT want to be breathing in the particulates from the burning structures, vehicles, etc.!
I feel you . I live in a fire zone in northern California. My house is made of cedar siding with attached cedar deck . Im paying more on my house insurance with my choice . I have a to go bag ready .
Stay safe . Anyway it sucks.
Thank God the winds are dying. Hope it gets nowhere near you my friend.
The only fire I hope you experience is charcoal.
So sorry for all those who have lost everything.
Thanks. It all ended last night. 2 days of being ready to run off was not so great. 85 homes burned but i dont know if those fires could’ve reached us accross the farms you see in the pic between us and those hills
Great! When I saw our reporting that there was the marine layer coming in today and tomorrow, that was a huge relief. I experienced this a few times as teen living in Diamond Bar. Thankfully it never came TOO TOO Close, but we certainly had evac warnings issued to us enough to have go boxes prepared. Each time it was easier to get them ready… but never an easy thing to live though.
Depending on the strength and direction of the winds … with spotting 2.5 miles ahead of the front could get into a tree canopy and then embers from that could carry further … this shit is terrifying.
Screenshot from Watch Duty showing the fire perimeter. Looking at the south line of the main fire and distance to the north edge of the southern fires (in the Camarillo Heights area) gives an idea of how far the embers flew:
A lot of fire talk/planning is focused on the Wildland-Urban Interface/Intermix, but some of the major fires of late have chewed through suburban areas (Tubbs in 2017, Woolsey in 2018, Lahaina in 2023).
Living in Pasadena, about a half-mile south of the 210, now gives me pause when the Santa Anas blow. Far too easy to envision that kind of wind event, a fire like 2020’s Bobcat, and the flames running south into the populated foothill regions … and not stopping - or being stoppable.
yep… scary… we’re just a mile away from that evac zone in your image as we’re on the westernmost part of moorpark. i keep telling myself the santa anas direction is super predictable and basically blows past us to the west … but fully expecting everyone to lose their insurance now haha… they’vealready not been renewing people before this
