A California Fire Thread.Follow

As in, ***** em. They chose to live there. There's wildfires there every year. Sorry, but I don't feel one bit sorry for them, and I didn't feel sorry for those in New Orleans when the hurricane came through either. We get tornados around here, yet I don't expect anyone to send me money if my house gets blown away. Call me cold, call me a ******, but I just don't see sending money to someone I don't know because they live in an area that routinely goes up in flames.

Well, you can't make people care. Personally, I'm grateful that there are folks who do care. Go ahead and huff about how it's every man for himself; I'm happy that there's those who give when they have plenty and receive when they have need.

Oh, if you find that article would you link it somewhere or PM it to me?


Never mind, I found a table. Interesting. I don't know if I'd categorize it as "far more dangerous", but still interesting considering how often you hear the opposite.


Edited, Oct 24th 2007 10:47am by Samira

I have ten or eleven dogs from California already.

I'm doing my part.

I used to work with a woman whose husband was a fireman. She had a great picture of him carrying a cat out of a burning building.

God, I had such a crush on him. /fan

Yeah, worked as a Fireman/EMT/Security on an island up here for two and a half years. Didn't have quite so extensive training as the real thing, but twice a month we spent a full day with the Fire Department to keep our skills honed in case of an emergency on the island. Through those workdays I've developed enormous respect for Firemen around the world.

Not to mention the US firefighters, considering that they have sub-standard equipment, sub-standard education requirements and extremely dangerous work environments in certain cities. Insane people, but definitely someone worthy of respect.

Hello all. Just checking in to say that the family and I are one of the lucky ones that have not had to evacuate and we are at home. The schools have been closed for the entire week, something that my children are quite happy about. My workplace is in the middle of some of the heaviest burn areas. That building appears to have survived and I will be going there either this afternoon or tomorrow to survey what damage may have occurred. And most of the executive staff has been evacuated and are holed up I believe at the Ivy Hotel with butler service.

Unfortunately, many members of my extended family have been evacuated and have taken refuge with other members of the family. We're Filipino so we've been having quite a few parties. We've taken this as an opportunity to have a mini-family reunion which is redundant since we all see each other at least once a month and talk almost on a daily basis. No one in my family has lost a home, but I have a few friends whose condo have been damaged by the fire. I have a friend that is a firefighter for the state and I know that he's busting his butt during this and hoping that he's safe too.

My husband and I were planning to adopt a dog and his owner lived in one of the areas that was evacuated. Unfortunately, the dog is missing right now and we have to wait until the fire situation is more settled before we can start searching for him. We were only able to do a Craigslist listing so far. I am planning to make up some flyers and post them at all the evacuation centers, shelters and vet places. We're going to search the shelters this weekend. But we and the kids are totally heartbroken.

British dunce is duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunce.

Edited, Oct 24th 2007 10:00am by StubsOnAsura

I would disagree with both parts of your statement.

You really just look like an ***. Not that you aren't used to that by now, I'm sure.

I would love to donate stuff or money to some Alla organization in an effort to help our posters in need. I might even be willing to help organize said program.

On another topic, Atlanta is officially out of water. We are the first Metropolitan city in the US to be almost totally out of water. We have 5 more days of water in our reserves before "drastic" water restrictions will be initialized. We have all been warned on GA television and radio stations that a limit on wter each household can use will be inacted and soon. Which means a limit on showers and personal laundry. Anyone caught using more than their household's limit will be fined "heavily". The restriction does not take into account the number of epeople in the household.

Everyone is pointing and laughing at Atlanta now because our city sucks and are consequentially embarassing the entire state. Poor city planners = Epic Phail.

I will continue to take my 6 minute showers and move on with my life. I hate drinking water anyway and probably have never had more than a gallon of water in my entire lifetime so meh...