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Jan 16Edited

Yeah, I gew up there in the 50’s-60’s. It burned regularly.

It has burned for millenia, and no amount of stored water or firefighting will prevent it.

From this video, ““people that move here from other parts of the United States do not realize what kind of peril they are in in the Fall around here”

https://www.youtube.com/live/2xsIqqvI98s?si=qY-C2-LyGRYuwcqP

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What's unusual this time is the timing--this is supposed to be the rainy season--and the multidirectional winds, rather than classic Santa Anas.

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Thanks for your fire posts. The pictures of the Will Rogers house and barn are among the saddest. I’d been there a couple times, hiking with school groups, and hoped to go back on my own.

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