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Hope no one is affected from the Fires!!! Our area was told possible evacuation if the winds pick up so we just moved our cars, just in case, so we don't have to move them later during the night...

Daym Socal fires

Yuki Haneda wrote:Hope no one is affected from the Fires!!! Our area was told possible evacuation if the winds pick up so we just moved our cars, just in case, so we don't have to move them later during the night...

Daym Socal fires

Kathy is dealing with possible evacuation at her mom's house.

We're packed and ready to go if we get the word in Porter Ranch.

Pics and video from today from across the street: http://www.kalman.org/fire" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Will Kalman wrote:We're packed and ready to go if we get the word in Porter Ranch.

Pics and video from today from across the street: http://www.kalman.org/fire" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good to hear you're OK for now, Will. I meant to call earlier but I got sidetracked with a coupla things. Lemme know if you need anything.

That's cool. The phone's burned down (no pun intended) with positively everyone calling us today to the point that it was slowing down our prioritizing and packing.




(ok I intended the pun)

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Maybe I should come park my van and Civic in your driveway. That much closer to the S2000...

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Will-

Damn, forget what I was saying about wanting one of those homes across the canyon from you....

If you need a big truck call me anytime of night, I'll probably be up whining about my shoulder. If you guys need a messy house full of toys, movies, cartoons, and video games, the whole manaergie is always welcome here. We even have a fence yard for the cujo's. Again, if they boot you at 3am don't worry about calling.

Curt Luther wrote:***Whoop, whoop, tasteless joke alert, whoop, whoop***

Maybe I should come park my van and Civic in your driveway. That much closer to the S2000...

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As your attorney I advise you to visit Will immediately with both vehicles....

Porter Ranch still looks very bad on TV this evening!

Hope all is still OK Will .... thanks for the photos and video ... pretty scary that close up ...

Fox news is broadcasting from Will's street right now. Really really scary.

Will Kalman wrote: http://www.kalman.org/fire" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Go on with your "only have time to snap pix and upload code in HTML1.0" self.

Seriously though, sending my best thoughts out to everyone there. We had some nasty fires near here earlier this year and it's definitely scary when embers and ash are raining down all night long. Unfortunately, that kind of kindling is a lot harder to deal with effectively than hardwoods dying a sudden death.

Updates?????

Did everyone make it through the night?

I found these links:
Sesnon fire: (updated 10/14) http://lafd.blogspot.com/2008/10/sesnon ... p-and.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marek Fire: (updated 10/13) http://lafd.blogspot.com/2008/10/city-o ... p-for.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

We are packed and ready to go in case the fire heads down our way. Last night, they were evacuating almost directly north of us on the 118.

We got evac'd about 10pm and I stayed until about 2am watering down bushes and knocking embers out of the sky with the hose. Whee!

But everything's good and we're back home. Thanks for the well-wishes and offers! After the fire of '88 which burned half my neighborhood down (before I got here in '96), everyone takes fire defense very seriously.

Good to see everyone is safe,

For those with pools have you thought about getting a pump and hose .

http://www.homefirefightingsystems.com/home.html

I posted a few more pics at the same address. In one, you can see my house with the Escort in the driveway and where the burn went to. We have a huge buffer space but the embers lighting your landscaping on fire and that lighting your attic on fire through the eave vents is the real danger.

Will Kalman wrote:I posted a few more pics at the same address. In one, you can see my house with the Escort in the driveway and where the burn went to. We have a huge buffer space but the embers lighting your landscaping on fire and that lighting your attic on fire through the eave vents is the real danger.

Attic fire is a very scary proposition.

My mom has a pump that she keeps under the diving board at her house in Santa Barbara. They and the neighbors do a wet rehearsal at least once a year. They're only a house over from the Mesa ... which is a big fire fuel dump. Local SB fire dept did a controlled burn up there a few months ago, but when I was visiting a few weeks ago, it was still or again overgrown with dry grass and bushes.

Stephen Yeoh wrote:We are packed and ready to go in case the fire heads down our way. Last night, they were evacuating almost directly north of us on the 118.

Dont forget to pack the CIVIC and bring it with you!!!!

...glad all is stable and OK...we will be watching closely..

Alex Sanchez wrote:Cars can always be replaced - friends cannot.

Yeah, but this particular car is OUR friend!!!!

Will,

I am so glad that your family and house is ok!!!

Kathy and Doug

(The fire near my Parent's house was very small and everything is ok now. )

Never really worried about them as I don't live in the usual hotspots.......until late last night early morning. RIght behind me.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27336648/

Yikes! Then going to work on the I-405 North I saw the remnants.