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We have some evacuated family members…
two aunts are currently evacuated, and one cousin whose house burned down (his house was in pacific palisades). They have two little kids, and are currently living in an AirBNB…
Yea, the photos and videos look apocalyptic! The air quality must be getting terrible with all the smoke. We were just in CA visiting family for the holidays, so it's surreal to see this …
Edited by - NCnotes on 01/12/2025 10:53:57
I've watched and thought about that situation a lot... The blame game has begun.. IMO.. Hydrant systems were not designed for two things.. 1. Wildfires, and 2. having over 100 homes in a single neighborhood on fire at once.. As a fire chief said, if they had all of their equipment repaired and on line, and if they also had 100 additional fire trucks... they would still not have been able to fight those fires.. It was apocalyptic. Nobody had planned for such an event... The entire LA homeless scene has taken on a new dimension!!! (Just one old man's thoughts).
CA is such a big state, surprised there are not more FHO folks from there!
Anyway the perimeters seem to be holding stable…no big news…
one aunt is living in her office, one aunt has moved down to San Diego to live with her daughter, and the cousin is still in the AirBNB. His house is totally gone … he said he does not want to rebuild… he said he will just look for a home closer to his kids’ school.
All other relatives are watching the news and keeping their windows shut, but got no evacuation messages, thankfully.
The reports of price gouging are making me mad! People jacking up their rental prices by 200% or more…unbelievable. I really wonder about people sometimes
NC, sorry your family is dealing with this terrible situation. We used to have a lot of FHO people from CA but the population on the forum does change over time. Anyway...yes, hoping all are as ok as possible. '
I agree with Lee...it seems like common sense that neighborhood fire hydrants are not suitable for fighting huge, widespread wild fires like this. Seems when those winds whip up the flames are just outrageously unpredictable and out of control. I've seen footage of them holding hoses and it's just obvious that it really doesn't do much good. Just a bad situation, ain't it?
I grew up in Altadena. The home where my parents lived for 66 years is gone, as is the elementary school I went to. My junior high school is half burned. I don't have relatives there any more (we sold the house after my mother's passing at 98 in 2021) but it is still challenging to accept that almost everything we knew (even the bank and grocery store) is gone. Even the corner of the cemetery where my uncle and namesake is buried burned. I know it is far worse for those folks we knew who were still living there two weeks ago, and I will be doing what I can to help them. My family and I do have a lot of memories, which we will hold on to - Altadena/Pasadena was a fascinating, cosmopolitan place to grow up.
My father's ancestors emigrated to California during the Gold Rush and wound up in L.A. before the turn of the previous century. My mother moved to L.A. in the 1930's to be in motion pictures (the furthest she got in the industry were a few close-ups in musicals). So yeah, I'm a true blue Californian. Our house got singed during the Bel Air fire of '63. I lived through some pretty exciting temblors, as well. In any event, a large part of my family still lives in SoCal, as do most of my friends. Met my wife there while working at a record store. I worked for years at Universal Studios and then Warner Bros. Needless to say I love L.A. dearly. I know it intimately. I feel terrible. Just like KenC.