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hatrack

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9. It's nasty - chapparal can burn around 1,000 - 1,500 degrees, IIRC
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:19 PM
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I also remember that it's a crown fire habitat - IOW everything burns.

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live feed on California fire [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Tuesday OP
Holy crap this is terrifying! berniesandersmittens Tuesday #1
Worse than it looks. A lot of the chapperal vegetation in California is HIGHLY combustible Attilatheblond Tuesday #2
It's nasty - chapparal can burn around 1,000 - 1,500 degrees, IIRC hatrack Tuesday #9
ABC affiliate reporting per LAFD that the Getty Museum is on fire . . . hatrack Tuesday #3
OMG NO!! I watched it being built. It's an expensive place. a jewel BlueWaveNeverEnd Tuesday #5
It's the Getty Villa which is threatened. It's on PCH. Last I heard, it was threatened but not on fire . . . Journeyman Tuesday #17
oh the Villa. I visited a very very very long time ago. long before THE Getty BlueWaveNeverEnd Tuesday #20
Hope that's not true. beaglelover Tuesday #7
OMG, it does look like the Getty Villa off the Pacific Coast Hwy is Nixie Tuesday #15
Getty Villa off of PCH is seriously threatened Brother Buzz Tuesday #19
It is so close to the PCH -- just up a small hill right off the Nixie Tuesday #22
It's early, but I'm hearing the grounds are burning, even with water suppression system, but Brother Buzz Tuesday #24
Thank you so much for that! We just love that place! $20 parking, Nixie Tuesday #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 Tuesday #4
Dozens of cars were abandoned earlier around Sunset and PCH. The fire department used a bulldozer to move the beaglelover Tuesday #6
It's only going to get worse as the night goes on. The highest wind gusts have not arrived yet. beaglelover Tuesday #8
Are you out there? nt allegorical oracle Tuesday #10
I used to live there but am now near Palm Springs but I'm watching the live news from L.A. beaglelover Tuesday #11
Good. How do these fires start? Just saw Jacob Saboroff on MSNBC saying he grew up in allegorical oracle Tuesday #12
People drive offroad and the cat converter hits dried grass; tossed cigarettes, blown transformer . . . hatrack Tuesday #13
Oh yeah. In my area, a firetruck's hot engine started a fire that destroyed the truck. One of allegorical oracle Tuesday #14
worst winds expected from 10pm-5am rollin74 Tuesday #16
About 30,000 evacuated. IcyPeas Tuesday #18
spent many fun days at will rogers beach where sunset blvd and coast hiway meet. the canyon sunset blvd msongs Tuesday #21
New fire reported in Pasadena rollin74 Tuesday #23
If only they had raked the forest. keithbvadu2 Tuesday #26
Right next to the ocean but planes are grounded intrepidity Tuesday #27
parts of Santa Monica now under mandatory evacuation order rollin74 Tuesday #28
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