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fake pie

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Also there is very little the state could have done about that. The water on the other hand... and the funding for firefighting.
 

rmenergy

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Also there is very little the state could have done about that. The water on the other hand... and the funding for firefighting.
Which reservoir was supposed to have been empty? I’ve heard this but don’t recall hearing which one.

Also, the incoming administration might have been notified by a personal email of some known mismanagement of CA water. The state & feds have shared facilities that would open the door for a federal audit, that hopefully, could expand past the stated shared facilities. Although there’s plenty to unravel even at those joint use facilities
 

Wild

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What's not adding up? The fact that a house burned and it was the only one on the street?
That 2-3 random houses burned down that weren't near one another, while surrounding houses didn't get touched. The first one they show is surrounded by houses, so I dont see how fire could even get to that specific house without burning down others in it's path.
 

Meohfumado

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That 2-3 random houses burned down that weren't near one another, while surrounding houses didn't get touched. The first one they show is surrounded by houses, so I dont see how fire could even get to that specific house without burning down others in it's path.
Now, I ain't no firefighter. But I've had to evac a house, or prepare to about five times growing up. That is surprisingly common in my experience, as is the a block where all the houses are taken out and one house left standing.

When I was a teen, I was chilling at a friend's house and the hills went up. We couldn't leave the area as we were blocked off, and didn't have transportation, so we took shelter in his pool figuring that wouldn't burn down, and used his hose to spray his house and the patio area all around us and keep it wet.

His neighbors on either side of him houses burned down, but his was saved. Not by us really, but because his folks replaced their shingles with tile just a month earlier. So it didn't catch immediately, and before the other two were full blown conflagrations the firefighters arrived and were able to ensure the two that burned down didn't spread to all the other houses in the area. Think like six on his block got hit in total, and the rest were spared.

Lot of variables involved in what does and doesn't burn.
 

rmenergy

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That 2-3 random houses burned down that weren't near one another, while surrounding houses didn't get touched. The first one they show is surrounded by houses, so I dont see how fire could even get to that specific house without burning down others in it's path.
The winds carry debris that'll land wherever it lands. 80-100mph winds can carry fairly large debris. Is it something to look into further? Sure, especially to verify the path of the winds and what debris landed on those houses. What was the debris that landed on other houses in the neighborhood that didn't catch fire? Were the houses that burned unoccupied & the neighbors running water on theirs? I don't know?
 

Wild

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Now, I ain't no firefighter. But I've had to evac a house, or prepare to about five times growing up. That is surprisingly common in my experience, as is the a block where all the houses are taken out and one house left standing.

When I was a teen, I was chilling at a friend's house and the hills went up. We couldn't leave the area as we were blocked off, and didn't have transportation, so we took shelter in his pool figuring that wouldn't burn down, and used his hose to spray his house and the patio area all around us and keep it wet.

His neighbors on either side of him houses burned down, but his was saved. Not by us really, but because his folks replaced their shingles with tile just a month earlier. So it didn't catch immediately, and before the other two were full blown conflagrations the firefighters arrived and were able to ensure the two that burned down didn't spread to all the other houses in the area. Think like six on his block got hit in total, and the rest were spared.

Lot of variables involved in what does and doesn't burn.
Crazy shit. Taking refuge in the pool is what I would have done too.

Here's what confuses me about this specific video. Look at the house that I circled. It's surrounded by other houses with a street in front. The trees in the yard and surrounding yards dont even appear to be burned. These fires were brush fires that got out of control. How did those fires get to that house and not burn any surrounding houses, the trees, the shrubbery. Nothing. Just that one house. Odd.

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rmenergy

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Now, I ain't no firefighter. But I've had to evac a house, or prepare to about five times growing up. That is surprisingly common in my experience, as is the a block where all the houses are taken out and one house left standing.

When I was a teen, I was chilling at a friend's house and the hills went up. We couldn't leave the area as we were blocked off, and didn't have transportation, so we took shelter in his pool figuring that wouldn't burn down, and used his hose to spray his house and the patio area all around us and keep it wet.

His neighbors on either side of him houses burned down, but his was saved. Not by us really, but because his folks replaced their shingles with tile just a month earlier. So it didn't catch immediately, and before the other two were full blown conflagrations the firefighters arrived and were able to ensure the two that burned down didn't spread to all the other houses in the area. Think like six on his block got hit in total, and the rest were spared.

Lot of variables involved in what does and doesn't burn.
My cousins house was the lone survivor in his neighborhood when Redding was burning down back in 2017. The concrete wall entering the gated community wrapped around his place (former demo house for the neighborhood) and was a big reason for his house surviving.
 

NiteProwleR

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When I was a teen, I was chilling at a friend's house and the hills went up. We couldn't leave the area as we were blocked off, and didn't have transportation, so we took shelter in his pool figuring that wouldn't burn down, and used his hose to spray his house and the patio area all around us and keep it wet
As I mentioned earlier, my neighbor's house was arson'd and went up in flames. It was a violent one but it didnt travel. I surround myself with tinder so if it woulda reached me the whole block WOOD go up. I had a huge brushpile in my front lawn facing the fire as well waiting for pickup. I wet it and said a hallelujah.