A Dozen Major Fires Break Out In Southern California Stretching From Santa Barbara To Malibu To San Diego

[DudeAsInCool]

Over 200,000 acres had been lost and over a quarter of a million homes have been ordered evacuated. Winds a high as a hundred miles per hour have started fires stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego The footage below looks similar to what we have been seeing on TV - it's an unbelievable disaster.

You can read all about it at the LA Times

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Update from the LA Times:

"Wind-whipped firestorms destroyed more than 700 homes and businesses in Southern California on Monday, the second day of its onslaught, and more than half a million people in San Diego County were told to evacuate their homes.

The gale-force winds turned hillside canyons into giant blowtorches from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Although the worst damage was around San Diego and Lake Arrowhead, dangerous fires also threatened Malibu, parts of Orange and Ventura counties, and the Agua Dulce area near Santa Clarita.

...By late Monday, Southern California fires had burned 269,000 acres -- about 420 square miles -- and destroyed at least 892 buildings. Remarkably, only one person was known to have died, although it was possible that more fatalities would be discovered. At least 37 people had been injured, including 17 firefighters."

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Over 500,000 people displaced - and it's getting worse:

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It just keeps getting worse:

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters all but conceded defeat Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has already chased nearly a million people away.

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[method77]

awful

[DudeAsInCool]

Here's an overview from Google Maps:

[Potato]

Alright, we have a few Californians here. Are you guys safe?

[DudeAsInCool]

Alright, we have a few Californians here. Are you guys safe?

Fortunately, yes. I live in the city - but I lived in the canyons of Bel Air for many years and have friends at both the beach and the canyon areas that have been hit; they are ok as far as I know.

[DudeAsInCool]

More photos, courtesy of the LA Times:

[Malicious Intent]

Glad you are OK and in a safe place Dude.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I'm an hour north of the northermost fire(s). No smoke has reached us, but we're also in a bowl on the opposite side of a major mountain pass that separates us from Castaic/Santa Clarita.

[DudeAsInCool]

A video time capsule of the fire:

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Smoke From Santiago Fire Hangs Over San Diego/Fire Victim At House