New California fires

[doigthom]

Somebody lost one in Redding California. Hope it wasn't a 914/6. safe_image.jpg

[popowitz]

Many lost more than that. 500 structures and 2 deaths so far.

[doigthom]

Not unsympathetic to all the loss, especially the lives (firemen I think). Picture just jumped out at me as lead photo on my local Accuweather blurb on the internet. All in all just calls to mind the losses we can expect if we continue to ignore our environmental conditions

[Frank Beck]

That’s a 4 cyl 914; not a tremendous loss.


Awful situation. Becoming a yearly thing.
Ignore our environmental conditions? How so?

[doigthom]

Engineer and a lawyer but not an environmentalist. Can only draw conclusions from what I read. Tremendous drought always leaves woodlands a tinder box. Happens here in Jersey when we have occasional droughts. Southern Jersey has an area known as Pinelands. When we get the occasional droughts we get the fires. This summer we are having crazy weather. Just had a week of rain with flash floods. Flash floods! Not in Jersey. We all don't seem to care, but auto makers were ready to comply with Obama rules and all of a sudden no more rules. As a long ago engineer, just seems to me the rules resulted in better engine efficiency. Nothing wrong with that. Crazy Elon promises all the electrical power we need from the sun. What's wrong with that. How come in India they can't breath on some days? China too? Los Angeles never had smog? People from Texas want to be free of any type of regulation so they don't bother with land planning. Allowed all of Huston to be paved over so when the Gulf rises they wonder why the City flooded. Water can get anywhere but you got to give it a little room to go down. I know you don't have hurricanes in Arizona, but should be here when they hit. Wonder if the Titanic could have missed this one.
https://www.facebook.com/JungleVT/vi...7000820441742/

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[swbstudios]

Engineer and a lawyer but not an environmentalist. Can only draw conclusions from what I read. Tremendous drought always leaves woodlands a tinder box. Happens here in Jersey when we have occasional droughts. Southern Jersey has an area known as Pinelands. When we get the occasional droughts we get the fires. This summer we are having crazy weather. Just had a week of rain with flash floods. Flash floods! Not in Jersey. We all don't seem to care, but auto makers were ready to comply with Obama rules and all of a sudden no more rules. As a long ago engineer, just seems to me the rules resulted in better engine efficiency. Nothing wrong with that. Crazy Elon promises all the electrical power we need from the sun. What's wrong with that. How come in India they can't breath on some days? China too? Los Angeles never had smog? People from Texas want to be free of any type of regulation so they don't bother with land planning. Allowed all of Huston to be paved over so when the Gulf rises they wonder why the City flooded. Water can get anywhere but you got to give it a little room to go down. I know you don't have hurricanes in Arizona, but should be here when they hit. Wonder if the Titanic could have missed this one.
https://www.facebook.com/JungleVT/vi...7000820441742/

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Huh? A lot of what you said is either a non sequitur or a stretch at best in the case of these fires. The horrific fire down here was caused by a POS throwing flares out of his window. Not much connection to enviro whacko claims.

[Frank Beck]

Wow.
Lots of angst there.


Prayers for God’s mercy and fortitude for victims of the fires. Hope compassion and provision is abundant.

[doigthom]

At 75 what we do to F up the planet is going to have very little effect on me but I ask you to consider this:




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[LongRanger]

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https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/ca...215572400.html




914 + 4-bolt wheels (Rivieras?) = NOT dash-6




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[Frank Beck]

Turning out to be a horrible fire in terms of loss of life.

Chalk it to up Cracker Jack journalism to describe the cause this way:

"The Carr Fire burning at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and on both sides of French Gulch grew to more than 4,500 acres Wednesday and its cause was traced to the mechanical failure of a vehicle. The fire is 24 percent contained.
Details on exactly how the vehicle's mechanical failure caused the blaze Monday afternoon were not immediately available.
Whiskeytown interpretive ranger Matt Switzer said a trailer may have played a part in sparking the blaze.
The cause is still under investigation,"

Oh brother...

"Interpretive Ranger"? What does that even mean? And how can such a cool sounding town have such a lame name for their liaison? Does he do interpretive dance during his press conferences?

And did the press even ask what kind of mechanical failure of a vehicle or care how a trailer was involved? Or what kind of trailer?

Semi?
RV?
Car trailer?
Mobile home?


HAVE to be Millennials working the story; the cause involves something they haven't seen in a video game or is outside their puny personal life experience. It doesn't even occur to them that people want more detailed info other than the pathetic explanation that an interpretive ranger fed them.