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Caught On Tape: Dramatic Video Of Trip Through California Wildfire
Firefighters have reportedly “gained the upperhand” in the battle to contain a California blaze that started at around 11 p.m. local time on Friday near Ventura.
On Saturday afternoon, Ventura County officials said the fire was nearing Solimar beach and was "bumping up against the roadway.”
As Reuters reported, “the Solimar Beach community, with 50 to 60 homes, and a nearby campground were under a mandatory evacuation order, while a voluntary one had been issued for the nearby Faria Beach community, where there are 30 to 40 homes.”
The following dramatic video depicts one family’s terrifying trip through the inferno. Or it may depict Janet Yellen driving home after the Fed hike. We’re not entirely sure.
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Those are dutch people!!!!
MAN! I just thought it where plain Americans...
Where is the help?? Why didn't they get airlifted out of there?
hopefully no americans were injured in the making of this film.
Wait What knows the neighborhood well. there's nothing there but a few vacation homes, RVs, oil fields, & homeless encampments amongst the brush. so no, no americans (worth mentioning, cuz that's what matters, right?) were injured.
Are the Ruskies bombing more ISIS oil tankers again?
ANM knows it too. Those hills are steep and unstable. That sonofabitch is coming down....by March, and will close 101 and PCH again.
In America the airlifting doesn't begin till the city is under 10' of water or already burned to the ground. Hence: Don't rely on Gov't to save you.
This family was quintessentially American in its approach to save themselves. Load into SUV...when sparks appear in the air in front of you....apply more gas. Soon you are safe and have a great story about your travels...
Well, HAD they been Americans, they would have stopped the car, grabbed and cracked another beer from the cooler in the trunk with one hand and pissed out the fire with the other hand.
Get er' done.
If they'd been Americans, their burning body fat would have fried them while they took selfies.
It was probably caused by a handgun. We need to ban those things. Good grief. Common sense, people!
caused by a downed powerline. time to ban power lines.
...and dry grass
Grass fires are the worst to fight. They can move quick and usually fire fighters get complacent around them because they aren't tall. Most deaths related to wild fires happen in grass fires.
No one will be chewing on a piece of grass walking down this road till late spring...
There won't be a road by spring.
Fahrvergnügen!!!
or the American version: fart - fig newton
The one thing that doesn't really come through on the video is the HEAT those fires are putting out. I'd be really afraid of melting parts of the car, etc.
...how about steel railroad tracks, or at least the wooden ties? That could be a good time.
No more services. Amerika is broke bitchezzz.
They should be experiencing Pacific moisture driving in from El Nino. North Pacific conditions are not allowing the conveyor belt of rains to come as far south as normal in an El Nino. Thus the Pacific NW had those hevay rains. Still time for them to shift south, if they don't, then California will be badly placed to enter next springs fire season.
Patience Grasshopper. Late Jan.,Feb., Mar., are our rainy months. Even in El Nino Years.
I drove my Mother to Nearby Naval Base Ventura County (Oxnard vicinity) a few weeks ago via PCH. Bit of a surprise to see a beach city torched; but we've had heavy fire along Ventura County before - plenty of smoke to turn the Sun Red. People tend to forget that the place is a Desert facing the Ocean, with a few patches of lush "beach strip" vegetation (Palos Verdes, Newport Beach-Dana Point, La Jolla-Pont-Loma).
when is it going to hit the gas leak?
Surely Lex Luther is on that one.
In a race however, competition.
when is it going to hit the gas leak?
That is a great idea....for a Seasonal Firefighter...er...arsonist. (Who do you think lights those brushfires anyway? They need money. They set a fire. Guaranteed employment.)
Wait till the next Santa Ana. (Yes they happen in January through March too.)
Set the fire east of the Canyon.
Then enjoy the income.
They will be working for months trying to extinguish that blaze.
On a trip through central California one time a wildfire had just started in a tall grassy field roughly 1000 meters off the highway. It came up to the highway jumped the median burned across it and jumped across the opposite side and was well into the grass on the other side in under 30 seconds. You hope the ash on the highway doesn't cause you to have a blowout or you're screwed. Ridiculously dangerous to fight too I'm sure.
That Venturian accent is a bitch to understand.
Venturan...
Not Venturian.
Get yer dialect correct.
LMAO.
Venetian
The only thing more useless and tiring than monthly housing data is monthly California wildfire updates and perhaps status updates on the drive for peace in the Middle East. None of this is useful or newsworthy, and it is nothing more than empty content for the hungry 24/7/365 media machine, with some use for their propaganda purposes.
But but but, there is a vid.
No reading.
Just because you do not find it useful, does not mean that somebody with an agenda, does not benefit.
This would be very newsworthy if the location(s) of the fires were related to the location of the big methane leak. If these events marry that would be a first and a show that I would probably not like to watch. Take this story as a build up.
Welcome to the future America!
Just as long as no one expects El Nino to put the fires out.
El Nino is very busy flooding places other than California.