Fucking Fire Still Isn’t Contained.

by the Pirate on April 28, 2008

Last night the wind started blowing toward La Canada; I hoped it wouldn’t spread the fire, but it did.

This morning the soot was in the air, and the smoke was visible. By noon that had changed. Now it just looks like hazy sunshine out there, but the flames are spreading again: the authorities aren’t letting some of the evacuated Sierra Madreans back into their homes (in case the wind changes direction again), and now they’re extending the evacuation into the eastern edge of Pasadena.

It looks like Altadena might be up next; what a nightmare. The evacuation/shelter map, courtesy of Foothill Cities Blog, is here.

I know, I know: I’m supposed to be grateful that homes aren’t being destroyed. And I am. Really, I am. But it’s still heartbreaking to lose some of Southern Cal’s best hiking trails. Griffith Park last spring. And the area around Julian in last fall’s massive tragedy.

(If I sound heartless, please keep in mind that in Southern California our wilderness areas and parks are the equivalent to Central Park in NYC: there are issues of identity involved that are difficult to explain.)

Please pray for us; this is one of three major things we have to worry about here. In some ways, it’s worse than floods or earthquakes—wildfires move like lightning, and they kill a lot more people than the other two.

Water, around here: it’s like cops and hookers. Ya know?

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