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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(10,624 posts) Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:47 PM Jan 7

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live feed on California fire [View all]

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live feed on California fire [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 7 OP

Holy crap this is terrifying! berniesandersmittens Jan 7 #1

Worse than it looks. A lot of the chapperal vegetation in California is HIGHLY combustible Attilatheblond Jan 7 #2

It's nasty - chapparal can burn around 1,000 - 1,500 degrees, IIRC hatrack Jan 7 #9

ABC affiliate reporting per LAFD that the Getty Museum is on fire . . . hatrack Jan 7 #3

OMG NO!! I watched it being built. It's an expensive place. a jewel BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 7 #5

It's the Getty Villa which is threatened. It's on PCH. Last I heard, it was threatened but not on fire . . . Journeyman Jan 7 #17

oh the Villa. I visited a very very very long time ago. long before THE Getty BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 7 #20

Hope that's not true. beaglelover Jan 7 #7

OMG, it does look like the Getty Villa off the Pacific Coast Hwy is Nixie Jan 7 #15

Getty Villa off of PCH is seriously threatened Brother Buzz Jan 7 #19

It is so close to the PCH -- just up a small hill right off the Nixie Jan 7 #22

It's early, but I'm hearing the grounds are burning, even with water suppression system, but Brother Buzz Jan 7 #24

Thank you so much for that! We just love that place! $20 parking, Nixie Jan 7 #25

Read fire has reached the Getty Villa, where a lot of art from the museum would be on exhibit too Attilatheblond Wednesday #29

Just read that traffic is backed up on Sunset Blvd. and people are allegorical oracle Jan 7 #4

Dozens of cars were abandoned earlier around Sunset and PCH. The fire department used a bulldozer to move the beaglelover Jan 7 #6

It's only going to get worse as the night goes on. The highest wind gusts have not arrived yet. beaglelover Jan 7 #8

Are you out there? nt allegorical oracle Jan 7 #10

I used to live there but am now near Palm Springs but I'm watching the live news from L.A. beaglelover Jan 7 #11

Good. How do these fires start? Just saw Jacob Saboroff on MSNBC saying he grew up in allegorical oracle Jan 7 #12

People drive offroad and the cat converter hits dried grass; tossed cigarettes, blown transformer . . . hatrack Jan 7 #13

Oh yeah. In my area, a firetruck's hot engine started a fire that destroyed the truck. One of allegorical oracle Jan 7 #14

worst winds expected from 10pm-5am rollin74 Jan 7 #16

About 30,000 evacuated. IcyPeas Jan 7 #18

spent many fun days at will rogers beach where sunset blvd and coast hiway meet. the canyon sunset blvd msongs Jan 7 #21

New fire reported in Pasadena rollin74 Jan 7 #23

If only they had raked the forest. keithbvadu2 Jan 7 #26

Right next to the ocean but planes are grounded intrepidity Jan 7 #27

parts of Santa Monica now under mandatory evacuation order rollin74 Jan 7 #28

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