#hill fire

[nurseydexchow]

Just saw this on fb and thought i would repost here for anyone who might need it

[thatpunnyperson]

God, first a mass shooting and now not one but TWO brushfires??? Thousand Oaks is having a bad day

[counting-stitches]

The Thousand Oaks Shooting and the CA fires

Hi everyone. I hope that everyone on here is safe.

First of all, I would like to send out my condolences to the friends and families of the victims of the Borderline shooting. I did not personally know anyone there, but I still want to offer my condolences.

Second, as you may or may not have heard, many parts of California are on fire right now. The camp fire is wrecking a town in Northern California while the hill and Woolsey fires are wreaking havoc all along Southern California. I don’t believe I have mentioned this before, but I live in a neighboring city to Thousand Oaks. The Woolsey fire started several miles from my house. I am safe, as of now, and it does not look like my house is in danger, but these fires are so unpredictable it is hard to be sure.

For those people who do not live in places with large wildfires and have not experienced them, it is like hell. The smoke can get so thick that it looks like night in the middle of the day and the sky turns red or orange. The air quality is one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced, and everyone everywhere wears masks, as you e probably seen on the news. One thing no one ever mentions is the ash. When you’re underneath a cloud of smoke, ash falls out of the sky. It looks like it’s snowing, except it turns everything it touches black and dirty. These fires are a major problem even if you’re not threatened by the fire itself because of all the other problems it causes.

Just a couple of tips and reminders:

1) If you are under mandatory evacuation, leave. Those orders are there for a reason. Even if you’re house won’t be burned, you can still get in the way of emergency crews trying to stop the fires.

2) Do not try to fight large fires yourself. Once they reach a certain size, nothing a few people do will be able to stop it. Leave that to the professionals and get yourself to safety.

3) This may seem obvious, but take your pets with you. They cannot survive a fire any better than you can, so don’t leave them behind.

4) Be prepared. Have an emergency plan, take all important medical/documents with you, and stay aware of where the fire is and where to find the emergency shelters. This can help get you out faster and be less panicked in the moment.

Check here for updated information on the fires.

I hope everyone out there is safe.

[jebbifurzz]

All of us in California where the air is too filled with smoke to go outside, but life goes on as usual because the fires haven't gotten to us yet.

I apologise if this comes off as too glib. People are in serious danger, an entire town has been destroyed, and people have either died or lost everything they had. I am making an attempt at levity while I am stuck indoors from the smoke. Yesterday the sky was dark at midday! But it's only smoke for us, and I am truly concerned and fearful for those displaced, endangered, or hurt by the actual fires. Please let me know if this offends, and I will swiftly delete it, as I have no desire to be insensitive to those suffering. Best of luck to all of California to get through this.

[lipstickluchador]

So uh, to all my followers; I know I don’t post much on here, but rn in california, literally less than a 7 miles from me, a fire is coming down the 101 freeway and towards me, with a predicted 50mph behind it, so if you don’t here from me for a while, I am evacuating

[prayingfxryou-blog]

ooc: countywide spectrum outage due to the fires. hopefully it won’t be down long but who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

[thepoliticalcure]

Post 31: Death toll hits 56 in California's Camp Fire as officials release list of unaccounted

Read: 15 November 2018

There have been 3 wildfires wading through California: Camp fire, Woolsey fire and Hill fire. Camp Fire has claimed the most casualties. 200,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders.

President Trump has blamed  "poor" forest management for the fire. However, many blame global warming for the exacerbation of the fire.

I think rather than point fingers, there should be a pooling of resources to care for the people displaced.

[amarraisntlistening]

All these fuckers mad at people for leaving their pets behind in the fire just. . .do you have any idea how crushing it is to watch your dog run off instead of get in the car when you lose grip on its collar? To be at work and that you're not allowed to go get your cat because you will burn to death if you do? Can you imagine what it's like for them, watching posts on Facebook hoping one of the pets found by the side of the road is theirs? Or to scroll through the group they made over and over and not see their fur baby? Imagine trying to get through to someone on the phone at one of the numbers they listed to check for missing pets, and to be the person on the other end of the line who has to say 'no, I'm sorry, but I'll keep an eye out for Buddy' over and over again. All while your entire town burns to nothing.

Can you imagine what it's like to go through that and then see people they've never met outraged that they would leave their fur babies to die?

Because I can't.

I have a friend from Cali and I'm watching her share posts of people looking for the owners of a dog they found, knowing that dog's people could have fucking burned alive. So shut the fuck up. They don't need to hear you judge them for doing something they tried desperately to avoid. You should be ashamed of yourself.