California Wildfires, Countdown

California Fire – Day 3

Posted on: October 25th, 2007 by ecthompson md No Comments

Well, as usual, the media can't focus on teh important stuff.  Now, we have stories about how sweet Qualcomm stadium is.  We have stories about dogs and llamas.  Houses are still burning.  Bush has declared a state of emergency.

Below is a video of the images from Countdown.  Keith Olbermann has usual does a great job at introducing the topic then stepping back.

One California blogger has compared the area of Southern California that has been burned to the size of Manhattan (hint:  the area of destruction is bigger)

There is an interesting personal account here.

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ecthompson

Tricia - Thanks for your comments. Keep up the great work.

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margaret

My cousin lives in Irvine California and the flames came over the hills and within feet of the houses. There were 3 ignition spots that were confirmed by the fire department as being started Sunday night by arsonists. It took 500 firefighters to keep that 8,000 acre blaze from reaching the subdivision. It is sad that people get a thrill out of watching what happens with fire. It is a thrill to the arsonists to watch what happens so fast especially with the wind.

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tricia

hey thanks for reposting my Manhattan pic - - I too am wondering where is the outrage over this! In addition to the post where Manhattan is overlayed on SD - I also wrote about the human contribution to the fires. You can read that at my personal blog www.triciawang.vox.com Thanks for speaking up about this madness! we need to get the word out!

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