Palisades, Eaton, castaic…#
Woke up this morning to KCRW talking about the Sepulveda Fire, near the Getty Center. They’re holding it surrounded at 40 acres, but I didn’t even get a ping and I’m near the edge of the Evacuation Warning zone, downwind.
A fire there is exactly why our bug-out bags are still packed and sitting in the living room, along with the portable medical equipment. (They’d be in the car but I don’t want to risk them being stolen.)
I guess I should be glad I got a good night’s sleep, and I am glad for the firefighters’ great work, but I’m definitely awake now!
Aside from the Watch Duty app, which I think everyone knows about now, are you signed up with
https://emergency.lacity.gov/notifyla
I get text messages for alerts.
Although none of it helps of your phone is on do not disturb mode, except for the emergency alert system.
I am. And I get LAFD pings all the time, mostly about hiker/biker rescues above Mandeville Canyon, as if I could do anything about that. I did get alerts about the Palisades Fire, and we did evacuate as soon as they texted we were in the yellow zone. But with the direction of Santa Anas, a fire in the Pass has a much greater chance of getting to us, and I wonder if it’s a zone-boundary thing. I never use Sleep Mode anyway so a ping is enough.
“What a year”
- January 23, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/hughes-fire-castaic-los-angeles-county-updates/
Remember how Australian wild fire were marking the beginning of 2020?
Reminds me of the beginning of 2020
No global pandemic this time, please
My 2020 started with flood so bad, you could only see the tip of rooftops on some neighborhood. This was 1st of January.
With high winds driving the flames, a fast-moving wildfire exploded to roughly 10,200 acres near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic Wednesday — prompting mandatory evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people.
… growing to 500 acres within an hour, authorities said. By 12:30 p.m., less than two hours after first being reported, it had ripped through a total of 3,407 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
Hold on! We’re still learning about what went wrong and the lessons learned on the first fires. Too much fire! Is there gonna be any LA left? Could someone please think of the adult film starts? And their studios!!! We gotta save the studios!
All these French fires
