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Stunning Video Emerges As 1000s Flee California Wildfires After Governor Calls 'State Of Emergency'
As if the drought was not disheartening enough, wildfires are now raging across many parts of northen and southern California focing Governor Jerry Brown to call a state of emergency. Nowhere is the crisis more evident than in NorCal's Lake County where, as The LA Times reports, the untamed wildfire forced chaotic evacuations, is consuming hundreds of homes and businesses, and has outrun the efforts of a growing army of firefighters to corral it. However, as the following clip shows, one car-driver ran the gauntlet and managed to outrun "the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen," in a scene right out of a disaster movie.
The pictures from CA's newest fire are simply apocalyptic. Too hot, too dry, for too long pic.twitter.com/1tEXCbY1L0
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 14, 2015
A swiftly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee as it roared unchecked through the northern California village of Middletown and nearby communities, fire officials said on Sunday.
The so-called Valley Fire, now ranked as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have ravaged the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior" this season.
A separate fire raging since Wednesday in the western Sierras has leveled more than 130 buildings and was threatening about 6,400 other structures, with thousands of residents under evacuation orders there, too, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) reported.
Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in both areas, and mandatory evacuations were expanded as shifting winds sent flames and ash from the Valley Fire toward a cluster of towns in the hills north of Napa Valley wine country.
As the following clip shows, locals had no time to prepare as they ran the gauntlet to survival...
"Middletown is basically gone," said one local evacuee.
"I saw flames all around ... The wind was insane. I have never been so scared," she said.
Mark Donpineo, 54, said he and two friends were trapped by the fire for four hours Saturday evening at a golf course in Hidden Valley Lake, taking cover in a culvert until the flames had passed.
"We got some towels, wetted them down and basically saw the fire coming. You could hear explosions of propane tanks, the ridge was totally on fire, trees were blowing up," he said.
Meanwhile, Cal Fire reported that 81 homes and 51 outbuildings had been lost in the four-day-old Butte Fire, which has charred more than 65,000 acres in the mountains east of Sacramento but was 20 percent contained.
As of Sunday, firefighters were battling nearly three dozen large blazes or clusters of fires in California and six other Western states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Sheriff Brian Martin described the fire as “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen.”
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yep
just like there are "heaps" of financial regulations,
or for health insurance, or to allegedly protect our water and food, and 'rights', etc.
BUT
written by whom, 'enforced' by whom, and for what purpose?
all the flaming homos finally gone and done it..............aww hell................the whole nation is next
I dont get it, how can something like that even happen, it takes time for a fire to spread to such level where was everyone?
No it doesn't.
Go light a backroom curtain on fire with a match. Make sure the flame is no large than ¼” tall.
Tell us how it’s going in 15 minutes.
I dont get it, how can something like that even happen, it takes time for a fire to spread to such level where was everyone?
You are right--you don't get it.
Haha, with 30 guys, an accelerant, and some big kitchen matches.....
Harvest the timber .... fewer wild fires .... more baseball bats, pianos and HOMES !!!
Exactly. If they cut down all the forests and replaced them with homes everything would be moar awesome!
Maybe even expand the shipping container operations and see how they make out in the mudslides.
Hmmm, Zombies Extra crispy style. I have never considered this possibility. That idiot is lucky to be alive and have air in his car tires. Bad as the drought has been it was just on cigarette butt away from disaster.
On a better note, that fire is burning in some historically premier gold country. With all that bare ground it would be a good time to take a stroll in the woods after it dies down.
Some guy found a humongus world class nugget in Butte last year..
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Giant-gold-nugget-hits-the-market-...
I know, I know, I have a one track mind. lol
Not to mention if el nino power washes those barren hills. Sounds like something they used to do in the old days.
You aren't going to find gold strolling around the woods. Unless you are finding exposed bedrock.
Trust me, gold will get down deep.
Backbreakingly deep.
pods
Your talking to a man that has found more than you would believe. 30 yrs ago, Its how I got my start.
idk, I can believe a lot. :) There is still a shit ton out there, but you aren't going to be finding it in the topsoil.
I still have only found enough to make my own Goldschlaeger but it is fun work.
Oh, and it is like 50 paces from my house so that helps. Nothing like Norcal though.
Much easier to work for fiat and then convert but also fun to work some cons and see what you get with your own labor.
Easier to get the fever by finding it yourself too.
pods
It will be under about six inches of ash. I did some work in the Angeles National Forest after it burned down in 09-10. The ash was so thick in some places you would be up to your knees in it.
But I like where you are going with that thought...
Wait until after the ElNino floods, there will be a lot of exposed previous forest floor.
california has the most fucked up people in the world. You have white people there who support the black panthers. Let that whole fucking state burn down. it would be a good thing
LA fire riots!
Then, you have less wine and all those people coming to your neighborhood.
Garbage wine filled with Fukushima radiation? No thanks.
While you were watching Obama just signed on 70 thousand new firefighters from Syria! Yup they'll get full benefits to after retirement.
USA Jobs
Now Hiring! Islamic fighters who must be able to disguise themsElves as Refugees! Wage: 30$/Hr. Benefits: Paid housing on abandoned CONUS military base, Halal meals compensated, free AKs and Training.
Contact: Head Imam, 1600 PA Avenue, Washington, DC.
Is that why these guys were sent in, in August? I am from SoCal and its like this went right under the radar.
U.S. Army troops mobilized to help fight Western wildfires
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKCN0QM1WB...
Ahh there's nothing like the fragrant smell of burning Liberals...I hope the whole fuck'en State melts to the ground
only a true asshole would delight in others suffering....and YOU give assholes a bad name
Get the convicts out of prison to harvest the timber .... the niggers are in prison .... because they miss the authority figure of a father in the home, a tribal leader or a slave driver (very few slaves had meaningful contact with the red bearded, Irish plantation owner) .... LOL !
The fire started when illegal aliens built a fire to cook a dog they stole
Reminds me of that classic Sam Kinison bit about world hunger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
Apply to: people that build significant, flammable infrastructure smack dab in the middle of an area that experiences wildfires EVERY FUCKING YEAR.
They are mostly Vegans .... communing with vegetation !
Insurance co.s price the stupid in.
+ 1,000 Panafrican, great clip.
RIP Sam
"Dammit, Reggie, it's not collapsing fast enough..."
"Well Munchkins, you do have all those hidden fighters and there is a drought in Cali. Why not give them some gas and matches?"
(Kiss.) "I knew I could count ou you, Redge!"
"Oooh! Tee Heehee, thanks Munchkins!"
bohemian grove in danger with this man made hell?
Nope. It is in western Sonoma, in the redwoods.
Vegetables on fire is much scarier than all the carnivores !
If El Ninyo doesn't come fast and furious this summer and flood that state, its over by next summer.
This guy was very lucky there was no burning tree blocking the road!
Or a live electrical from a downed pole.
Live electricals are not too danerous if you stay in your car. Where it gets dicey is touching the wire (or something charged by it) and the ground at the same time.
Or a bear wearing a ranger hat and bluejeans.
Ronald Reagan cut brush to minimize fire danger .... he was so ahead of his time !
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water but fire next time".
old negro spiritual
Just goes to show: 1) Disasters don't happen. 2)The government will save you. 3)Preppers are tinfoil-hat-wearing-nutjobs.
Have a bug out bag and a plan.
God's country has become Satan's....I wonder what the message is to the psychopaths who still delude themselves with the "exceptional" meme?
Onward to the bitter end which we know we have coming to US!
"It was insane". No, you're insane.
Repent!
Assuming you pented the first time.
+1 ..... Lol....
Must have messed it up. Had to do it again.
I assume that welfare/sanctuary state has a funding shortage for those fire departments.
We actually increasd funding this year for fire and have cleaned out a reserve fund (first time we've had a reserve in the state budget since the Deukmejian administration). But the fires are so bad we are bringing in teams from other states to help out. I'm glad that terrible fire in Washington state seems to be under control - now some of those teams can come down here to California.
The entire West coast seems to be going up in smoke.
We are both the "invasive species"...
...and the "fire insurance."
As long as humans put themselves above the environment, as if the wildland urban interface is our playground where we can live in our picture postcard dream home (with fire insurance), then "we" are the invasive species. When we declared war on fire a hundred years ago and labeled (for the records) fire "evil," we lost touch with our "purpose" as human beings. As a wildland firefighter ceritified in many areas in wildland fire operations as a "single resource," it is clear to me that we humans are out of touch with why we are here on this planet. We invade other countries out of selfishness and greed. We invade the forests out of selfishness and greed. We invade other human and animal "spaces" out of selfishness and greed. Like the fuels that have built up in our forests because of prolonged fire suppression, the same insatiable human appetite for more and more, with disregard for the effects, has reached the point of an inevitable catastrophic (economical, social & environmental) collapse.
We are out of touch with who we are as a cuture. We are out of touch with what we are and why we are. We are more concerned with buying more useless material items while staying in debt, rather than taking responsibility for the well being of everything around us. Those who choose to live in a wildland urban interface to satisfy personal motives need to snap out of DENIAL (a contageous dis-ease that is running rampant throughout this culture) and learn to become "Stewards of the Land."
What is your relationship with the Land? What did the land look like before fire suppression became the policy of a corrupt government owned by greedy corporations? What did the land look like before European settlers "invaded" this country?
Fire was once a natural part of our landscape. Low intensity fire helped maintain balance and order in the forests and kept forests "healthy and biodiverse." (Many Native Americans understood this principle and, prior to the arrival of European settlers, practiced "prescribed burning" methods that supported the health of themselves AND the health of the forests and animals.) However, that knowledge was lost when the European settlers came to understand "timber" as a valuable commodity and perceived fire as "evil" and actually declared war on it. (Good old Smokey the Bear became the perfect propoganda prop to further their cause.) Unfortunately, without low intensity fire to keep forests healthy and diverse, we now have a catastrohpic problem on our hands. The amount of acummulated "bio mass" needed to be removed from our forests, to help nature recover somewhat, is MASSIVE! Like the Karma that will come to all Americans for, directly or indirectly, invading and destroying other peoples cultures, a similar Karma is now at our doorstep.
You want fire insurance? Look inside yourself. Learn to connect to your true nature and how that supports and nourishes your environment...the land your home is on. Each and everyone of us has a purpose on this planet, unrelated to the fashionable addictions most Americans have to any and everything that keeps them constantly preoccupied with being busy doing absolutely nothing worthwhile.
We each need to realign ourselves with our purpose and mission in life; not to serve ourself (always first), but to serve the greater good of all living creatures. Time is growing short on all fronts. Our forests need to be intelligently and carefully "thinned" (leaving all old growth) with mimimum impact on the sensitive ecosystem. Low intensity fire must follow. Therapy for the forests will be therapy for ourselves. They go hand and hand, limb and limb. (Channel the billions of dollars allocated to an illegal war, by a corrupted administration, towards hiring a few million "poor" people to recover our forests. It's a "win-win" situation.)
Time to make a stand for something good, anything. Either this makes sense or it doesn't. The lines are being drawn. Whether you are rich or poor, it does not matter. What does matter is what side you choose to align yourself with?
A fully functional and dedicated "Steward of the Land," steeped in principles gleaned from Nature (and not the corrupted corporations), is the only true "fire insurance" there is. Our ability to positively Steward the Land is the "fire insurance" policy that the old growth forest has always expected from us, as a coherent human race. The policy expired over the last hundred years. Time to renew it for the sake of the forest and ourselves?
"Governments are an invasive species". There fixed that for you.
Burn Hollywood Burn !
Wouldn't surprise me if someone calls you anti-semite.
It's not Hollywod that is burning. Andersonville is more conservative than the Bay Area, so if those people move away, California will become an even deeper blue than before.
Everybody in my office keeps checking the statewide maps here: http://www.fire.ca.gov/ (but right now the site is swamped). We in Sacramento are either downwind of a major fire or know somebody who is commuting from an area under threat. This has been a wicked drought year and the fire season is still not over. Radio news said we have 11 major fires in the state and this article talks about only 2 of them.
Natural disasters seem to be getting somewhat worse. My friend moved out of Cali because of exactly these fire threats. He moved to a place called Marble Falls Texas which was hit hard by flooding a few years back and his house was no excepetion.
Once he cleaned up his place he sold it and moved not too far away buying a lakeside house paying $120,000 extra b/c of the lakefront location. Bad move .... Well, the lakes there are drying up pretty fast due to severe droughts so now he overlooks mud flats and has a really crappy view.
Fire to Floods to Mud Flats.
The guy can't win.
Yup, I expect a different sort of disaster this winter. Around here in Northern California, droughts are stopped with floods. We're expecting a strong El Nino this winter. Could get a little soggy.
Good luck to your friend.
surely if he no longer has lakefront property, they will lower his taxes???? :/
Oh no, keep out the California migrants.
This was simply a matter of time due to the drought. California is basically fucked in many ways. Mother nature is just kicker her while she's down. Sad. I moved out of there about five months ago. Doubt I will ever return.
The HAARP program is kicking her.
HAARP was shut down. They have "other ways of managing the ionosphere"
http://www.adn.com/article/20140514/air-force-prepares-dismantle-haarp-a...
ha ha NOT BLOODY LIKELY! Their cover story is that they sold it to a University......name ONE school that could afford a piece of machine like that
Had plenty of bad fires here in Central Washington
Huge fire fighting effort.
Can't imagine what it would be like if an economic crisis prevented fire fighting.
Indian's had a good idea with their teepee's
Earthquakes, fires, floods etc.
Are we getting the hint?
I kind of like the idea of cement houses with metal roofs and metal shutters on all windows.
Yes, a great pizza oven, could I have pepperoni on your daughter?
Actually I recently heard of one guy who lived in one of those concrete domes who survived a wildfire. All of his landscape burned up but the house was fine. Not sure if it was in WA or TX, but I heard the story this year.
Here's that story
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mans-concrete-home-survives-raging-wildfire-was...
going to war with a living breathing unpredictable adversary on your home soil. The only war that is ever just, where you a literally fighting for your lives, family and lively hood. Let me know if you need a hand. I will always fight for that, and only that.
That video reminds me why I was using California wildfire as a metaphor for the world economy.
Fire! I am the God of Hellfire! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c
Special thanks to all the Satanists who made this all possible.
Another nice chunk of collective karma hits the warmongering USA
Burn Baby Burn.
Because lawlessness (sin is lawlessness) will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.14 This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.
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You will be judged guilty and face an eternal fire that makes the California fires seem like an afternoon BBQ unless you repent & believe the truth. What is truth? Can you know it? The hatred in your heart is elevated above that which is "normal" and that is a heart that is hardened and bent on self-destruction.
Sad.
Weird thing is that I swear I saw Krugman leaving the area with a gasoline can mutteriing, "They want a strong economy, I'll give them a strong economy."
If only a few more public employees would get with the program and have their taxpayer supplied cars washed 4 times a week instead of 3 times...
Maybe Californians can hire these officials to wash their cars on top of their lawns?
As Obozo says, "Our climate is changing faster than our ability to address it".
Duh!! When you steer rain clouds around CA with Chemtrails and HAARP offshore - what do you expect?
Globalist agents Obozo and Brown are prepping us to clamor for the new global climate cops with their new SDR, global religion, core values and distortion of most everything.
I knew ZH readers could turn any story into a conspiracy!
Middletown? Middleclass is basically gone with not a green shoot in sight. Nice recovery, enjoy the next jolt and ride down.
Coïncidence is that Sumatra, Indonesia now has more than 1000 hotspot fires due to slash and burn methods of agriculture spreading haze as far as Singapore and Malaysia. All man made!
how ironic, trapped at a golf course during a fire in the middle of a drought in a place called middleton
Maybe Gov Moonbeam can put the fires out with meditation and positive thoughts!
I can't imagine living in CA. After all the taxes, the regulations, the illegal invasion.... then no water, everything's on fire, and.... Jerry Brown is in charge?! A sure sign of the End Times...
we count on the notion that at least some of you feel that way
In order to be more realistic - This video needs a few hordes of zombies -
I guess everyone could pee on it.
not enough water
Agenda 21 in full swing....burn em out of rural areas...and scare the rest into moving.
I guess that Allah clown might have more power than we thought ''Death to America''
Where's the state going to get the carbon credits to pay for that fire?
Mr. Gore will sell his for a premium...hehehehehaaaaaaaaaa
OH LORD JEESUS IT'S A FAHR.
I live in a Wilderness area, one of the largest forests in the USA east of the Mississippi. We have a saying "If you build your house in the woods, and the woods burns, your house burns."
It is a simple logic, but so many city people who buy homes in the woods, do not know this. We clear brush and pine trees away from houses, smart people add sprinkler systems outdoors to spray the house, connected to a gas run generator. Last time a big fire went through, I went out and counted homes that burned and couldn't find a single one with sprinkler. But a small cafe in the same place has sprinklers, and he survived. I stopped for a burger, and we talked about the 200 expensive homes that burned, and the other 250 north in Canada that went in the same fire. Do the right things, and you can survive most fires.
But then he went out of business because his customers homes were all burned; should have seen that coming.
May the entire state burn!!!
It would be good for the country!!!
Burn the kommunist state of kalifornia burn to the ground and sink into the sea and forgotten like atlantis!
dumbshit
Then you have the people of California moving east; think on that for a moment. Where is your compassion sinner.
STOP CHEM-TRAILS PROGRAM
AND
THE WEATHER WAR PROGRAM
CLIMATE CHANGE GOV PROGRAM
OR IT WILL
NEVER RAIN
ON THE WEST
COAST
I lived at Cobb Mt, just above the town of Middletown, between '96 and '98. It was a tender box back then. In the industry we call it a "Bleacher" fire. So hot, so intense, all you can do is sit in the bleachers and watch it. Although, in this case, even the bleachers were too close.
Where I lived is now gone, toast. Moonscape.
"Holy Fucking Shit"...my thoughts exactly. I lol'ed for a while at that comment in the video.
I grew up in fire country also and I get that things can go down quickly but as always the situation can be improved by people being prepared and having common sense. I think there is at least one dead person and they screwed up my evening by showing a dead horse. If a group of random Californians showed up at my house and asked for a place to stay I would decline but if they needed me to put a nice horse in my backyard for a while that would be okay, I don't understand why people would put things off so long that they would have to leave behind their horses.
If you can't find a place for them to stay pack them up anyway, get out of town and go door to door or hit a small town's breakfast diner and ask if anyone knows where you can keep them. They may not take your weird ass in but they will find a way to save your horse, very few horses will try to kill you in your sleep or rob you blind.
People can't seem to take care of anything properly anymore, not their children, their animals or their property.
As a Wildland fire fighter, well, actually I don't fight them anymore, i.e. prescribe burn boss, I lite them; low intensity fires that clean out the ground cover, but that's another story. I'm agreeing with you. I could tell you stories about animals in the wildfire setting, but I won't (pains the heart), however, there is an amazing animal that actually has adapted to fire. That would be the Great Buffalo. I have not seen this act take place, but there are stories that have come to be from other wildland firefighters who have seen small herds, in a grass fire, actually run parallel to an on coming running fire, and jump the fire, into the "black" (burned area) and high tail it to safety. Apparently they have an inherent "knowingness" of where to jump. And if you know Buffalo, they can jump up to 6 feet, at least the adults can.
In addition, smoke and toxic gases kill more creatures, big and small, than flames do. Both ways, I suspect, are not so wonderful.
When one is close to a catastrophic fire like the one in Middletown, just being in the proximity can be enough to force one to one's hands and knees, seeking relief from the smoke and gases. It's the "smoke" that is the real killer. Scary shit, let me tell you.
Nice to see someone who values animals lives above humans and we wonder why things are as they are.
So, let's see ... people build wooden homes in dry forests populated of resinous trees and in very dry climates .... hmmmm, I wonder what could happen ...
People are free to live anywhere they want, but do not come calling for taxpayer money later. Everyone hates government until it is your turn to get some subsidies.
its only ok if the Banks come whining to the .gov for more handouts ie "Other peoples money"
Test.
places hardest hit are going to be in insurance/contractor/land title limbo for a long time
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broken hearts man
If people keep putting up buildings made out of wood in fire prone areas, they will keep burning down (d'uh).
I would want a building with a thermally resilient (white) steel outer wall, formed into an insulating (from heat) cavity wall with an aluminum inner wall.
Why not?
Pah! This is not a fire. Wait until you see what will happen in Europe....
What a tragedy. Expect all of us to pay higher insurance premiums on our homes/cars to subsidize the insurance losses. Even though the Federal government will provide subsidies to the insurance companies. Never let the love of money and a crisis go to waste says the money-changer-cabal. My prayers to so many across the world as a result of sin from forest fires to refugees to victims of war, famine and all other diseases.