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View from Berkeley fire engine of Santa Rosa fires (Original Post) Downtown Hound Oct 2017 OP
Nero(Trump) fiddles (golfs and tweets) as Rome (California) burns Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #1
And Trump is silent jpak Oct 2017 #2
unbelievable devastation rollin74 Oct 2017 #3
The wind fueled the fires. BSdetect Oct 2017 #4
I know Downtown Hound Oct 2017 #5
Unbelievable! It's just beyond anything I can imagine. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #6
Unreal. blue neen Oct 2017 #7
Damn Leith Oct 2017 #8
Wow. nt tblue37 Oct 2017 #9

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
4. The wind fueled the fires.
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:47 PM
Oct 2017

It was ferocious even from early in the day.

These videos are going to remind us just how dangerous fire can be.



Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
5. I know
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:53 PM
Oct 2017

I was hanging out with my fiance at a friend's house that night, and we sat there listening to the wind, aghast at how strong it was. We didn't know there was a fire yet.

On the way home we could smell smoke and we were actually south of Santa Rosa at that point. We knew there must be a fire, but that's not uncommon at this time of year. Before going to bed I read a few things on facebook about how there was a fire that had jumped the freeway, and I started to get concerned but was not panicked at that point. I woke up later that morning to cars clogging the roads going south with people fleeing, sirens everywhere, and a sky that was completely filled with smoke. At that point I knew this was no ordinary fire, and that we were in the middle of something huge. It only got even crazier as the day went on.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. Unbelievable! It's just beyond anything I can imagine.
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 08:10 PM
Oct 2017

Yet, Fat Bastard manages to enjoy his golf weekend and shows not the slightest concern for the people who have lost their lives and everything they own. What a vindictive, miserable jerk!

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