The fire has quadrupled, feeding on 50 years of brush. Cell phone and media towers atop Mt. Wilson will probably be lost, affecting area communications. (Apparantly police and fire comm towers are elsewhere.) Two firemen have died. The smoke this morning was fog-like. More as matters unfold.
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That's would be too much excitement for me.. And I thought the earthquakes out there would be scary.
"Two firemen have died."
Aww man.. sorry to hear that.. I thought so far they had a death toll of zero. :C
If I remember the news right, the firefighters who died were in an aircraft that crashed.
Earthquakes are no big deal except once every several years (this October 17 will mark 20 years since the Loma Prieta quake (I was within 3 miles of the epicenter), and there's only been one in that same area bigger than 5.0 since then (not counting the aftershocks in the months that followed), and 5.0 just knocks a few things off the shelf (but does send you to the doorway, to be sure)).
I believe the firemen were in a vehicle that rolled.
Didn't you have a huge fire up your way in '89?
Or was that the one in Oakland?
In '89? Only remember the earthquake. We had a big fire by my old place in Morgan Hill just a few years ago -- 45,000 acres or something, but uninhabited parkland. Still, it started practically within sight of our house.
There was a big fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier in the '80s. I remember being able to look right at the sun in the day. It was just a dull brown ball. Must have been in October or so, since that's about the only time of year the jetstream comes from offshore allowing the smoke to blow into Scotts Valley.
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