| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Community
Forum: Chat Room
Thread: Fire Distaster in Califorina |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 26
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I think this deserves a special thread
----------------------------------------Second person dies in fires; more than 500,000 flee homes NASA - Southern California Wildfires Burn Out of Control: New NASA Earth Observatory Nasa This is really terrible !!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 24, 2007 1:04:26 AM] |
||
|
|
Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
I'm
----------------------------------------   |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
From Fox News...
Unless the shrieking Santa Ana winds subside, and that's not expected for at least another day, fire crews say they can do little more than try to wait it out and react — tamping out spot fires and chasing ribbons of airborne embers to keep new fires from flaring. "If it's this big and blowing with as much wind as it's got, it'll go all the way to the ocean before it stops," said San Diego Fire Capt. Kirk Humphries. "We can save some stuff but we can't stop it." Tentacles of unpredictable, shifting flame have burned across nearly 600 square miles, an area larger than New York City, killing two people, destroying more than 1,600 homes and prompting the biggest evacuation in California history, from north of Los Angeles, through San Diego to the Mexican border |
|||
|
||||
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Sounds horrible.
|
||
|
|
Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
This is really terrible !! Yes, it really is the worst they have seen. I grew up and went to college in San Diego and fires are common in the summer but never this many and this late in the year. Yesterday, some of my family's friends in Jamul (pronounced Ha-mul) lost most of their house and properties. They have lived there for about 30 years. It really is sad.   |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
California people, and maybe others, will be asking themselves, "How do we prevent these conflagrations?" No matter how careful the rest may be, there is always one person who scatters sparks when putting out a camp fire, or throws away a lighted cigarette or match. How do we identify and deal with such people beforehand? Dealing with them afterwards is of no practical value.
----------------------------------------[Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 27, 2007 7:37:46 PM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Prayers are being sent from here
|
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
California people, and maybe others, will be asking themselves, "How do we prevent these conflagrations?" No matter how careful the rest may be, there is always one person who scatters sparks when putting out a camp fire, or throws away a lighted cigarette or match. How do we identify and deal with such people beforehand? Dealing with them afterwards is of no practical value. Not to mention the fires started by sparks from train wheels, lightning strikes, etc. |
||
|
|
Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
California people, and maybe others, will be asking themselves, "How do we prevent these conflagrations?" No matter how careful the rest may be, there is always one person who scatters sparks when putting out a camp fire, or throws away a lighted cigarette or match. How do we identify and deal with such people beforehand? Dealing with them afterwards is of no practical value. From some California stat's I saw a while back, the causes are: Southern California: 1) Arson (set on purpose) 2) Human Accidents (campfires, cigarettes, broken mufflers on off-road vehicles, kids playing with fireworks or matches, ect.) 3) Acts of nature (lightning strikes, down power lines, etc) Northern California: 1) Acts of Nature 2) Arson 3) Human Accidents These may or may not still be acurate. The first fire in SoCal was caused by a down power line due to the extremly high Santa Ana winds. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
California people, and maybe others, will be asking themselves, "How do we prevent these conflagrations?" No matter how careful the rest may be, there is always one person who scatters sparks when putting out a camp fire, or throws away a lighted cigarette or match. How do we identify and deal with such people beforehand? Dealing with them afterwards is of no practical value. From some California stat's I saw a while back, the causes are: Southern California: 1) Arson (set on purpose) 2) Human Accidents (campfires, cigarettes, broken mufflers on off-road vehicles, kids playing with fireworks or matches, ect.) 3) Acts of nature (lightning strikes, down power lines, etc) Northern California: 1) Acts of Nature 2) Arson 3) Human Accidents These may or may not still be acurate. The first fire in SoCal was caused by a down power line due to the extremly high Santa Ana winds. In some countries (e.g. Israel) forests are broken up into sections, well enough separated to prevent spread. In some cases, fire fighting equipment is kept in the gaps. I have seen forests in Germany which have observation towers, so that fires can be spotted in the early stages and the equipment can be deployed quickly. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 27, 2007 7:39:02 PM] |
||
|
|
|