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[nibot]

Holy #$@#! -- This is my aunt's cabin at Tweedy, photograph from this weekend (published in the LA Times):



I think that cabin was saved. Word has it that the Ransom cabin was saved only because of luck and timing -- dawn came and the water-dropping helocopters extinguished the blaze only 250 FEET from the cabin!

Today I came south on I-5 from a trip to Berkeley, and we could see the flames in the distance...

Comments

[fanlain.livejournal.com]

THAT's scary! i'm assuming your family had already evacuated?

[eviladmin.livejournal.com]

Every time I see these pictures I wonder if I know someone who's house is nearby (four people in the last fire I knew were a few hundred feet or less, one person I know lost their home in the Oakland fire.

Hope the fire is contained....

[nibot.livejournal.com]

What's the deal with west coast fires in the last year? My boss's house burned down last autumn in the San Diego fires. My advisor was nearly evacuated because the Alaska fires were approaching his house (but then the wind changed...) two weeks ago. Now this Pine Canyon fire...

[probablevacancy.livejournal.com]

I'm really just waiting until the terrorists figure out that burning down national forests is a really simple way to cause extreme havoc and destruction - much more so than crashing planes into things, and oftentimes, nearly as effective.