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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:07 am    Post subject: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:00 am    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

My hometown for 50 years! Started at Whiskeytown Lake and is burning into the Redding city limits.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 5:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

H2OSB wrote:
Stay safe Tim

Same here.
Thoughts and prayers to you and your family Tim.

Be safe, not brave.

Good Luck Brother!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:01 am    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Tim. Hope all is well. Check in if you get a chance.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Thanks, guys!

We’re safe so far. A little nervous, though.

We live in east Redding, and the fire keeps going north and west. Although, last night it shifted to the south.

In 2005, we moved from a rural area near Redding, to inside the city limits. We made the move because of two big fires that burnt many homes in our rural area. Now we live in the middle of the city in a sub-division with a fire hydrant directly across the street. Living inside the city proper helps with the nerves quite a bit.

The firefighters are saving many homes, but 500 have burned so far, and the list keeps growing. The evacuated downtown once again. My wife and daughter work down there, but the building they work in are all stone with few trees or brush around.

All we can do is wait.

Thanks again,

Tim
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Just saw this in the Washington Post. Looks like someone lost a convertible. And what I'm thinking used to be a 914? Sad sight, and I'm sure there are lots of others.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

That sjould buff out nicely Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Damn... Definitely looks like a 914
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:33 am    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

DAMMM !! Watched the news this a.m., holy shit that looks bad !! Stay as safe as you can, California Vw peeps.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:47 am    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Wild land fires are very dangerous. If they say get out, get out. I survived the Rodeo~Chediski 2002 Arizona. That fire was so wild in one day it burned 70,000 acres. Crazy. Wow on the burned vert and 914.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

This might be a different view of the same vert.
Artistic yes. Frightening as well.
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This one was found embedded in a NewsWeek aticle

We are having wildland fires here in Oregon too. The air outside is full of residual smoke from fires hundreds of miles away.

Be careful everyone.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

The fire is called the "Carr Fire" which when heard on TV just as they showed a burned out VW, I thought, "Oh my god, a plastic fuel filter fire destroyed 500 homes and killed several!" but that wasn't the case... I THINK... because they do say they think a vehicle fire started the blaze. Stay tuned...

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Now we all understand why I had my 1970 towed by AAA 20 miles back to my place last Friday, after the gas tank started leaking. I "probably" could have driven home OK, but I sure didn't want to start a 20-mile Arizona fire !!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Recent post, check out the cam that fell out of the melted head.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

Good lord, sure doesn't help that we are in the midst of a global heat wave.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

So sad for all the residents. Looks like a motor sitting on the ground
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

I do not like CA fire season... Crying or Very sad

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

zmichael84 wrote:
I do not like CA fire season... Crying or Very sad


They said on the news today that there is no such thing as CA fire season anymore. It's year round.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 12:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

That is awful!!! I heard some reports from firefighters that fires are burning so hot ( hotter than previously recorded) that responders have a hard time saving property compared to past events.

There is no end to the "fire season" now.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Redding California on Fire Reply with quote

KTPhil wrote:
The fire is called the "Carr Fire" which when heard on TV just as they showed a burned out VW, I thought, "Oh my god, a plastic fuel filter fire destroyed 500 homes and killed several!" but that wasn't the case... I THINK... because they do say they think a vehicle fire started the blaze. Stay tuned...

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