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North fire

hennypenny — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:41:52 GMT

Just watching the North fire on the highway and the hills

Hope that no one is in danger.

It is very scary.

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nunya — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:45:27 GMT

They were showing cars on fire on the news. Is that the same fire? Scary stuff.

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makeup addict — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:47:33 GMT

Yes, it jumped the interstate. I guess it happened too fast to shut down the hwy?

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Kachina624 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:54:25 GMT

OP, We have no idea where the North Fire is or where you are????

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Surfnturf — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:55:29 GMT

Hi hennypenny. I watched live video of it online. What a horrible thing to experience. At the time I watched, they said everyone escaped without serious injury. I hope That remains the case. The fire spokesman said the fire is spreading quickly, and they are in for a very long night trying to protect communities. Hoping all in the path of the fire remain safe.

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Moonchilde — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:57:07 GMT

It's "the" main hwy between LA and Vegas. Every single Friday it's bumper-to-bumper without a fire. The cars and the people in them were sitting ducks. No place for them to go. 20 cars destroyed, 10 more damaged. Truly terrifying video. No injuries (!) smoke can be seen all the way to the ocean. While it's still light they are dropping water and fire retardant.

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Puzzle Piece — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:56:50 GMT

Went to dinner and a movie, when we got on the interstate it was jamed to a slow crawl. We didn't know that a lot of traffic was re-routed due to that fire. News says the freeway there won't open until later tonight.

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icezeus — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:59:51 GMT

It's in Southern California. It's what we called the High dessert Area. in the El Cajon Pass. It's a very popular path that people travel on Friday's especially if they are heading to Las Vegas.

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Winifred — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:01:33 GMT

Cajon Pass is North of San Bernardino, Ca - and as a poster stated the main thoroughfare to Vegas from LA. I do not live that far from there and have friends in that area and it is just horrible. Any of you who have not lived through these fires or near them, perhaps cannot quite understand how terrifying they are. I will take an earthquake, hurricane, tornado any day rather than these fires -none of us know know what they will do. And our water is rationed and our lawns are dead and so it goes!!!!!!! We desperately need water - really bad.

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sunshine45 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:04:55 GMT

i was alerted to it by my s/o AND an old poster.....dawnsmom......i could not believe it. stay save those in that area.

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Dell1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:49:15 GMT

How did this fire start? I saw this on the news when I got home from work today. sunshine45 say hi to dawnsmom. How is she doing?

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Kachina624 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:50:32 GMT

OMG, That does sound serious. I suppose your drought has made things even worse. Our forest fire season has been virtually non-existent due to all the rain we've had. Our fire crews have left the state for other areas. Probably in your area.

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Moonchilde — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:52:19 GMT

it customarily takes a little while to determine cause in this kind of fire - it's not usually immediately known.

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Dell1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:55:17 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
it customarily takes a little while to determine cause in this kind of fire - it's not usually immediately known.

I live in northern California moonchilde and am familiar with our fires this year. I just didn't know if there was a cause or possible cause. I have not seen too many fires involving cars on a freeway before and have lived here since 1974.

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hennypenny — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:58:10 GMT

Sunshine, please tell Dawnsmom hi from hennypenny. Wish she would post . We miss her. How are her grandkids?

I hate hearing about these fires. Now with the drought everthing is tinder dry and explosive.

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Moonchilde — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:38:13 GMT

Dell, do you mean you wonder if the fire started in a car/in the freeway? No, it started in the brush and burned up to and over the freeway and kept on going.

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Dell1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:50:10 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
Dell, do you mean you wonder if the fire started in a car/in the freeway? No, it started in the brush and burned up to and over the freeway and kept on going.

Yes moonchild that is what I meant. Sorry I didn't make myself more clear. Wow that had to have been so scary for the people on the freeway. I saw pictures on the news and couldn't fathom what had happened. Thanks for your reply.

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Moonchilde — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:58:06 GMT

Dell, there were highway patrol & firemen telling people to get out of their cars and run. And one video which will probably go viral of a family trying to outrun the flames as they came right at their car. They barely made it.