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IronBear -> Californian Wild Fires (7/12/2006 6:15:20 PM)

Our hearts and prayers go out to all who are faced with the wild fires in Ca at the moment. Aussies live with large bush fire potential every summer and we do understand.... 



juliaoceania -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/12/2006 6:38:36 PM)

It happens almost every year here. I had not heard about it until I read your post...ouch, and I am a Californian. My Dom lives down there and he didn't mention it, I guess because there are major fires here every year, probably like in Australia



IronBear -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/12/2006 6:58:37 PM)

Yeah julia we grow up with these things and forget that others don't understand or can even immagine the pain, suffering and heartbreak bush fires cause.. It is something that many of are used to and volunteers are usually first to thefront and to support. I know the Ash Wednesday Fires in Victoris some years ago gor covverage over seas as did the fires than ringed Canbera and later the ones which hit the outer suburbs of Sydney. Still as a kid growing up in country Victoria, there was hardly a week which went past without the alarm going off for a large grass fire which has been known to decimate several thousand acres of geazing land for sheep or dairy cattle. The town used to shut down, most ablebodied males wenet off to fight the fires and the women used to set up a supportbase for sangers and tea for the guys comming in for a break. Mum used to ferry them out to the various points for relief and Dad was one of the co-ordinators due to disabilities.. It was the norm for us kids. We learned early the dangers of tossing a lit cigaretts in the grass and to collect empty beer bottles as well... We knew the harshness of drout regularly (well things havent changed there) and there ever present dangers of fire..... 



sub4hire -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/12/2006 6:59:46 PM)

You get used to fires when you are smack in the middle of them all of the time.
We've had a major heat wave here the past few week's.
My old house was in the middle of the "old fire"  300 homes burned down within a 2 block radius. 
This time, it's in the desert for now....not too many in harm's way.



juliaoceania -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/12/2006 7:39:44 PM)

As bad as California fires can be due to chaparral, which is one of the predominant flora types of California, the worst fire I have personally seen was the Yellowstone Fires of 1988. I was living in Jackson Hole Wyoming at the time, the smoke was so bad that at one point it was settling in the air inside of buildings.. it was quite awe inspiring and went on for months. It burned over a million acres of land and was one of the largest fires in USA history. On my evenings off we would drive up and watch the fires from a distance... I will never forget it.

Here is a link if you are interested in learning more about it  http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/history/fires.php



pahunkboy -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/13/2006 1:38:36 AM)

i would hate to have a hard time breathing. unimaginable. argh.



meatcleaver -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/13/2006 2:11:10 AM)

I thought these fires were a way of nature renewing the forest and that people have just moved into an area where natural phenomenon are dangerous, like earthquakes and flood regions. It doesn't make it any easier for the people that live there but is this not a price we pay for human expansion? To control these phenomenon, even if we could, would be a bad idea for ecology in general.

But if it is your house going up in smoke it is your world that seems to be coming to an end, that I can sympathise with.



subedana -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/13/2006 4:53:06 AM)

I grew up in Los Angeles and lived in the foot hills and a couple of times we were close to having to evacuate due to the fires. I had friends loose everything. 



truesub4u -> RE: Californian Wild Fires (7/13/2006 5:44:45 AM)

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver



But if it is your house going up in smoke it is your world that seems to be coming to an end, that I can sympathise with.


ughhhhhhhh...............didn't take no wild fire to burn my place down this week.

As I run out to continue my clean up in the ashes and soot....my prayers go out to the neighbors to the West.....

Jessica



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