12:55 AM news conference to announce fire evacuations..Sylmar CA

[SoCalDem]

Anyone with family friends who might be asleep, better call 'em & wake em up..

This is just NUTS..

This one's a big one, and has caught a lot of people unaware..

There's even a hospital (Olive View medical Center)that's sustained some damage..

The hospital's surrounded by flames & all the trees on fire near it..


~Channel 13 in LA has a live feed from the fire... cannot find it online though

[SoCalDem]

1. found a link... (scroll right)

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/

[uppityperson]

2. Is this a different fire?

[SoCalDem]

3. Yep it just started at 10:30 and has already claimed 5 houses & part of a hospital

The news guy said they were evacuating patients, rigth now, and were covering the gurneys with wet blankets to protect them from flying embers..

gusts of 40-50 mph..

[SoCalDem]

4. 500 firefighters on the line & more coming..

This is the area where the Sylmar earthquake happened all those years ago....in the magic Mountain area

[uppityperson]

5. Crap. Bad night down there. Dry, windy? Good luck and stay safe to all.

[SoCalDem]

6. Found a CNN link..

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/15/california.wildfires/#cnnSTCVideo

[Howardx]

19. Lcal CBS affiliate link

http://cbs2.com/local/brush.fire.Sylmar.2.865252.html

videos, pics etc

[Trajan]

7. Poor Sylmar .... Buffeted by earthquakes and fires ...

As a former Californian, I lived through MANY such events ....

The Sylmar quake in 1971 ALSO hit the Olive View Medical Center .... It sustained major damage, if I recall ....

What a fucked up deal .....

[SoCalDem]

12. A friend of mine was the 2nd car on the bridge overpass that collapsed..

She was a teenager just having gotten her license, and all these years later, she's still afraid to drive..:scared:

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. wow.

[melody]

8. I'm sitting here waiting on refugees right now. I was really hoping we'd not have a big one this yr

If it's Olive View MC, it can't be far from a LOT of structures.

Only nice thing about living in the middle of cat sand high desert ... nothing to see but not a lot to burn.

[SoCalDem]

10. This stupid female reporter's standing out there in flying embers, and

her long hair is flying around...just waiting for an ember to catch her hair on fire..

I cannot believ that a fireman has not told her to cover her hair..

[melody]

13. That has got to be KCAL

Or KABC ... they're almost as bad ...

[SoCalDem]

14. Fox 13..

These reporters just LIVE for fires & rain.. :(

[melody]

15. That would have been my next guess lol

They love mudslides, brushfires and big shootouts :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

16. and CAR CHASES

:rofl:

[melody]

17. Oh, god, they love those

With the dumb chopper guy following along telling the audience everything they can see with their own eyes. lol

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. No way am I close enough

to be smelling smoke..yet I do.

:scared:

[melody]

11. You're near enough to smell it -- we smell a lot of the LA area fires and we're 25-50 miles away

In the Antelope Valley

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. The fire has jumped the 5 freeway and is heading towards Reseda.

[melody]

23. Ohymgod, that's REALLY heading into dense areas

That was a burn area a couple of years ago so hopefully there won't be a lot of fuel in terms of brush. :(

[malaise]

18. Just saw the fires on TV

Frightening. Stay safe everyone :grouphug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. Most of the LA channels have live feeds. It's really smoky in the North East Valley.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sylmarfire15-2008nov15,0,3384965.story

[SoCalDem]

24. Now it's in Brea,Yorba Linda & Corona...sheez..

and is about to jump the 57 freeway..

You could not pay me to live on a hillside:scared:

[lolly]

25. That's a new fire

We were evacuated at 2 am from Granada Hills/Bee Canyon area.

We're back now--everything is covered in ashes. Our pool is dark grey, has about an inch of ashes on the top.

It was stopped here at Sesnon, a couple blocks from my house--primarily I think because the brush there had already burned a month ago.

Corona fire still raging, I think.

[SoCalDem]

28. I'm glad you are safe...Try not to breathe that gunk in..

Yes.. the Sesnon burn helped a lot.

[lolly]

34. Thanks!

We feel very lucky.

[Mike 03]

26. It's a catastrophe. I've been watching coverage online since

around three this morning.

There is a raw live feed from a chopper at KCAL9, FYI.

This is unbelievable.

[Mike 03]

27. Link to chopper feed

http://cbs2.com/

Then click on "Sky 9 Raw Video"

My heart goes out to anyone in these fire areas. It's incredible.

[Mike 03]

29. Here's a great news radio link

KNX has been doing round the clock coverage since around 10:30 last night.

http://www.knx1070.com/

[SoCalDem]

30. Good Ole KNX.. I used to listen to them all the time when I commuted

980 is another news radio station that's pretty good too

[Mike 03]

31. I actually prefer 980, KFWB.

It's just that I live in AZ, and I can receive KNX on my C. Crane Radio, but not 980.

I totally agree. KFWB is the better of the two stations, IMO.

[Mike 03]

32. Listening to KFWB now. Great coverage.

http://www.kfwb.com/

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