Fortunately, although it's insanely hot, it's not a proper Santa Ana so we don't have hot dry winds coming in. Instead, there's monsoonal moisture which has already built up some cloud cover and humidity and could bring storms later.
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Two more fires in the county started today. One on Camp Pendleton, which always seems to be a tinderbox. And one not far from the end of the Miramar runway, in dead space. That's the closest to us, but is still a good 7 miles away. The trouble is that it's almost all open space between there and here, so it could go up very quickly.
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Nothing to compare to any of the above, but there was a major Wanstead Flats fire a couple of weeks ago, which took 200 firefighters to put out. We live around 200m away, and while it was never a serious worry in any sense, I understand it was the largest grass fire in London for a hell of a long time, maybe ever (as this area wouldn't have been in London back before the war).
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The Ute Fire happened earlier in the summer and threatened Philmont.
There was a weather break for a few weeks where it was back open, but looks like they're packing it in.
That is cool you got to go - my son's troop did an 8-day backpacking trip back when he was probably around 15. He still has his beat-up hiking boots w/ the Philmont 'brand' on them. Our troop hiked all over the state and a number of places outside the state, but they all said Philmont was easily the toughest and most grueling of them all.
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Horrendous what’s happening near Athens. I witnessed from up close forest fires in Provence in July/August 2003 while visiting some of my relatives there, even from a safe-ish distance it’s extremely scary. Unbelievable how quickly those wildfires can spread, 30 kms in just 8 hours one day I remember over the Saint-Tropez Gulf in the hinterland (Massif des Maures, strong winds and very dry conditions tht day). A few people died in horrible circumstances. Not as frequent now in that area but the same happened last year down there, albeit on a smaller scale.
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Originally posted by Cal Alamein View PostThe Ute Fire happened earlier in the summer and threatened Philmont.
There was a weather break for a few weeks where it was back open, but looks like they're packing it in.
That is cool you got to go - my son's troop did an 8-day backpacking trip back when he was probably around 15. He still has his beat-up hiking boots w/ the Philmont 'brand' on them. Our troop hiked all over the state and a number of places outside the state, but they all said Philmont was easily the toughest and most grueling of them all.
I've never really been to any any parts of New Mexico that could be described as urban (I think my family stayed one night at a KOA near Albuquerque on our way through in 1983), but it looks like a nice place to live, though media suggests there's a lot of meth, racism, and guns. And wild fires.
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Apparently Siberia is on fire. 8 weeks ago the lakes were still frozen.
They had a Swedish guy on the radio explaining how the Swedish government have had to borrow fire planes for their forest fires.
74 people dead in the fires in Greece so far.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
I've never really been to any any parts of New Mexico that could be described as urban (I think my family stayed one night at a KOA near Albuquerque on our way through in 1983), but it looks like a nice place to live, though media suggests there's a lot of meth, racism, and guns. And wild fires.
Those images from Greece are truly horrifying.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThe Greek authorities believe that at least some of the fires may be the result of arson.
Three days of national mourning also announced by the Greek Government.
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How big fires can start small. This could have been disastrous. I'm pretty baffled that anyone would want to make a campfire in these conditions tbh.
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Homes built haphazardly among the pines, no evacuation plan, poorly organised emergency services hit hard by austerity: the deadly wildfires around Athens this week may have shocked Greece but few environment experts are surprised.
Greece's fire service had an annual budget of 354 million euros ($414 million) last year, compared with 452 million in 2009.After devastating blazes killed 77 people on the southern island of Evia in 2007, Greece embarked on updating its firefighting response, which was judged to be too reliant on aerial relief to the detriment of ground responders.
"Ultimately, I don't know who did or didn't do what, but judging by the result, it didn't work," said Bokaris.
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