Woolsey Fire burns homes as it exceeds 14,000 acres, continues to grow at Los Angeles-Ventura County

studyguy · Nov 9, 2018

https://abc7.com/woolsey-fire-chars-14000-acres-75k-homes-under-evacuation/4652981/

The Woolsey Fire exploded to 14,000 acres on Friday in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and fire officials said the relentless blaze is continuing to grow.

A total of 88,000 residents were evacuated from their homes -- 45,000 from Ventura County and 43,000 from L.A. County. It's believed another 60,000 residents south of the 101 Freeway were in the process of evacuating between the 101 and the ocean. No injuries have been reported.

Acting Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to the two fires, the Woolsey Fire and the Hill Fire.

The fire is now moving into Malibu and has forced evacuations of the city into Santa Monica. The Pacific Coast Highway is being converted from a 2 way either lane highway to a 4 way, one way only escape to Santa Monica.

kcranews LA Co. Sheriff's Office: Pacific Coast Highway will become one-way 4 lanes southbound to allow people in Malibu to evacuate to Santa Monica and away from the #WoolseyFire. https://t.co/ODsoj47Bz1

Unbelievable satellite image of the wildfires in the LA area. Red boxes indicate the fire's area. #WoolseyFire

Personally live in Ventura County and the Santa Ana winds are still going furious, but it's more South West winds now, straight into Malibu unfortunately.

Wanderer5 · Nov 9, 2018

Kind of eerie that the church still remains. Sucks that place burned down. :(

Will plan on coming back home to, well, see if it still there. Haven't heard anything regarding my neighborhood, but I don't think it was quite in the path of the fire (through course there is still the danger of amber).

Keldroc · Nov 9, 2018

Footage from what used to be Paradise, CA.

And last night.

Meanwhile, Malibu is being evacuated. This is going to get a lot worse.

Fire is now burning out of control and heading into populated areas of Malibu. All residents must evacuate immediately. Follow all instructions from emergency personnel. www.malibucity.org/alerts

carlsojo · Nov 9, 2018

Please rain.

Sho_Nuff82 · Nov 9, 2018

My flight from SD to SF has been delayed about 2 hours... so far.

Hoping everyone in Malibu is able to evacuate on time.

studyguy · Nov 9, 2018

This is what it looked like coming into work at 8AM this morning before the wind shifted.
In the town right next to the fire.

Again at 12 Noon

sayuuna · Nov 9, 2018

Man seeing that bus was eye-opening. Hoping all residence in Malibu evacuate safely and in at least a quasi-organized fashion.

Maurice Hamblin · Nov 9, 2018

sayuuna said:
Man seeing that bus was eye-opening. Hoping all residence in Malibu evacuate safely and in at least a quasi-organized fashion.

Looks like a Walking Dead set. Unreal.

Mcfrank · Nov 9, 2018

Malibu is a pain to get in and out of on a good day. I can't even imagine how slowly this evacuation is going down and up PCH. Good luck and stay staff.

Syriel · Nov 9, 2018

Posted on Twitter about 35 min ago.

studyguy · Nov 9, 2018

It's just about reached the ocean, leapt the 101 at Kanan like 3hrs ago and fucking ran west.
Basically a blazing wall of fire just barreling down to Malibu

Ozgiliath · Nov 9, 2018

studyguy said:
It's just about reached the ocean, leapt the 101 at Kanan like 3hrs ago and fucking ran west.
Basically a blazing wall of fire just barreling down to Malibu

That is insane how fast this fire is spreading..fuck, hope people and everyone gets safe hope also people don't forget there pets :(

inner-G · Nov 9, 2018

Syriel said:
Posted on Twitter about 35 min ago.

Holy moly, what an image. This is nuts

fluffydelusions · Nov 9, 2018

Syriel said:
Posted on Twitter about 35 min ago.

That looks like something out of a movie

Deleted member 13101 · Nov 9, 2018

People are getting two fires mixed up.

Deleted member 5359 · Nov 9, 2018

Any reports on what started the Woolsey fire?

Brutalitops · Nov 9, 2018

James Woods attempting to help Alyssa Milano via twitter exchanges makes me really happy to see. As fucked and divided as the world is, it gives me weird comfort to see humans show humanity.

BBboy20 · Nov 9, 2018

sayuuna said:
Man seeing that bus was eye-opening. Hoping all residence in Malibu evacuate safely and in at least a quasi-organized fashion.

My friend is out. Apparently so long it doesn't reach the Pacific Coastal Highway, the neighborhood there should be fine.

Polaroid_64 · Nov 9, 2018

fluffydelusions said:
That looks like something out of a movie

That is an amazing photo. Like damn.

shinobi602 · Nov 9, 2018

Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

sayuuna · Nov 9, 2018

BBboy20 said:
My friend is out. Apparently so long it doesn't reach the Pacific Coastal Highway, the neighborhood there should be fine.

Good to hear. Needless for a high number of casualties from a n avoidable occurrence like this.

NullPointer · Nov 9, 2018

Syriel said:
Posted on Twitter about 35 min ago.

My... God

shinobi602 said:
Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

And they're only expected to grow in frequency and destruction from climate change.

eyeball_kid · Nov 9, 2018

shinobi602 said:
Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

If you live in a very populated place and away from mountainous regions where the dry brush is, you'll generally be safe. The fires are no joke though and climate change is making them worse. But climate change is making the whole west more prone to fires, even Texas.

Illithid Dude · Nov 9, 2018

Have literally dozens of friends affected by this. Sounds like huge areas of the county are going to be gone. Very scary stuff.

Airegin · Nov 9, 2018

Keldroc said:
Footage from what used to be Paradise, CA.

How did people get away if they abandoned their cars?

DemonCarnotaur · Nov 9, 2018

Airegin said:
How did people get away if they abandoned their cars?

It's quite possible they didn't.

Instro · Nov 9, 2018

Wonderment said:
People are getting two fires mixed up.

Yeah the Camp fire in NorCal is what destroyed Paradise. The Woolsey and Hill fires are in SoCal.

Blade Runner said:
Any reports on what started the Woolsey fire?

The Hill fire started right before it I think. Maybe embers got blown over and started the Woolsey Fire?

Keldroc · Nov 9, 2018

shinobi602 said:
Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

Irvine is not part of an area that would be threatened by this kind of wildfire. Which is not to say I recommend living in Irvine, but this particular thing is not a reason to avoid doing so.

Allforce · Nov 9, 2018

This must happen fairly often because this thread is dead.

The images on Twitter are absolutely insane. The entire city is on fire. Caitlyn Jenner's house is gone! Kanye & Kims place is burning!

Punjabi_Hitman · Nov 9, 2018

Man Cali is going to be a nightmare to live in going forward.

To think that it will only get worse. Hopefully we can innovate something to keep damage and casualties to a minimum soon.

Deleted member 32374 · Nov 9, 2018

Ummm, holy shit.

Fuck Trump for blaming this on water use.

Youtube Malibu and there is a live beach cam where you can see the glow of the flames just on the other side of the hill...

FTF · Nov 9, 2018

Wow this is terrible, please rain soon.

Syriel said:
Posted on Twitter about 35 min ago.

Holy shit, this picture is insane.

Burning Justice · Nov 9, 2018

The Hill fire was very close to me--I wasn't quite in the evacuation zone, but it was close enough that I could see the fire from my house last night. The Woolsey fire isn't quite as close, but I know a couple people in TO who were affected by it.

It's crazy that this is happening again not even a year after the Thomas fire.

Wanderer5 · Nov 9, 2018

Whew, just learned that my home is safe. Can sleep with more ease tonight before heading back tomorrow. Going to be quite a sight seeing the landscape through.

Deleted member 36578 · Nov 9, 2018

Wanderer5 said:
Whew, just learned that my home is safe. Can sleep with more ease tonight before heading back tomorrow. Going to be quite a sight seeing the landscape through.

Glad yours is ok. This is a really bad one .

Wanderer5 · Nov 9, 2018

brokeastronaut said:
Glad yours is ok. This is a really bad one .

Yeah, I have been evacuated once before and prepared for a couple other years around this time, and this was quite nasty. It was pretty terrifying keeping up to date of how fast and spread out this fire went last night and into today.

Rad Bandolar · Nov 9, 2018

shinobi602 said:
Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

In Southern California, it's mostly the wealthy and horse ranchers living in the hills where these fires burn. If you're down in the flat, populated areas with us plebs, you don't have much to worry about until the Big One hits. That'll be a very egalitarian disaster.

Droidian · Nov 10, 2018

I'm wondering and maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I know lots of these people have been forced to evacuate and maybe even lost everything and have pets (cats/dogs) they have to bring around with them to shelters.
I wouldn't mind fostering/sheltering a nice pet even feeding and cleaning after it while a family gets situated. I don't know how these boarding expenses work. I know the news showed many shelters full around the valley.

studyguy · Nov 10, 2018

So... fire knocked out internet service in the county for spectrum users. Fun time. Sitting here with bad cell reception waiting for it to get fixed. On the whole better than a home getting burned down, but I recall the panic during the Thomas fires when all networks went down and power died, cell towers burned. Nothing like being in the dark with little idea as to where the fire is moving.

Droidian · Nov 10, 2018

studyguy said:
So... fire knocked out internet service in the county for spectrum users. Fun time. Sitting here with bad cell reception waiting for it to get fixed.

What county?
Main spectrum for me is actually located in West Hills where they've ordered an evacuation as well.
So far my spectrum works.

Titik · Nov 10, 2018

shinobi602 said:
Hope everyone gets out safely :(

This also makes me wary about moving to CA. Was eyeing Irvine but damn, it feels like wildfires happen fairly often in Cali...

Most of the metro area where most of the population reside are fine. I live in Hollywood and you wouldn't know a couple fires are happening within a few miles from me without turning on the news.

studyguy · Nov 10, 2018

I'm in Ventura county. We have a reported network outage for all cam, Oxnard, Ventura apparently, fire damaged fiber according to spectrum on twitter and obviously can't get in there to fix it atm

Emergency & I · Nov 10, 2018

Cousins have a home in Malibu but they were actually out of town. The neighborhood is decimated though their house is still standing. They're not out of the woods but don't feel great knowing their friends/neighbors don't have a house.

It's very unlikely they'll have a house before this is over.

Ryouji Gunblade · Nov 10, 2018

My home was safe. Those firefighters are real heroes. It looked like hell on those hills for about 24 hours.

Droidian · Nov 10, 2018

Titik said:
Most of the metro area where most of the population reside are fine. I live in Hollywood and you wouldn't know a couple fires are happening within a few miles from me without turning on the news.

True, there was a fire in Griffith Park this morning I could see from my office window. I think they were able to contain that one.

That Ventura county though, they just had a terrible fire last year and now this one.
This is actually the closest it's come to the city limits in L.A. county. I don't think the winds ever blow in the direction to affect us though.

Tagyhag · Nov 10, 2018

Didn't even know about this until a few minutes ago. It's weird seeing a beach that I used to go to look like that.

Kewlmyc · Nov 10, 2018

Like, how do you even combat this?

Emergency & I · Nov 10, 2018

Yeah, they had to evacuate certain animals from the zoo. It's crazy because I was hiking Griffith not three weeks ago and it looked like a bunch of controlled burns had happened to avoid this type of thing.

Emergency & I · Nov 10, 2018

Let us remember the 405 fire last year. It's that time of year again only things are happening in more places and earlier this year.

I remember this one especially because this was my commute.

studyguy · Nov 10, 2018

Kewlmyc said:
Like, how do you even combat this?

Wait for the Santa Ana winds to die down and pounce on it. Our county is prone to desert winds from the mountains behind it basically desiccating all the brush that grows and acting like a kind of bellows to fan the fires once they start.

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