View from my backyard Thursday night
On Friday morning
Shopping in La Canada Friday
Friday night
Today
So far no homes lost, firefighters doing an excellent job keeping it out of residential areas I used to ride up in these very hills in that last photo and it is terribly overgrown and dense with brush, tons of fuel…sad to see my trails getting burned up. Thank God there are NO Santa Ana winds, if this is going to burn these are the best circumstances.
V glad to hear that you are all OK.
Me and ig get worried about you guys over there without all the wet we are used to in Oregon…
tac
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Stay safe, Victor.
Awesome photos.
We had a wild fire in the mountains behind us one year.
The fire looks so much closer at night.
Ralph
Those fires are not nice for all of the people that are in harms way. Seems like this is an on going event in southern Cal.
We have been effected somewhat as the smoke has drifted over to Lost Wages but I wouldn’t be any other place except maybe Hawaii… Oh ya, we are thinking about that someday in the future after we get toooo old to care for this house.
Please take care as Bob & Jackie Starr knows the hazards of fire… Lost it all…
Cheers, the oldfardt in Lost Wages…
View from Devils Gate Dam today, those buildings in front are the Jet Propulsion Labratory
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The canyon behind the power pole where all that smoke is in the Gabriolino, Brown Mountain and El Prieto trails, all burned as of today
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There ar houses literally right at that smoke line, fire crews have done an outstanding job against fire in 20 foot high brush.
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The white horizontal streeks on the ridge are homes, as are the structures on the left.
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From my backyard tonight
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This is burning right about where the White City on the Mt Lowe Railway was situate Luckily were not in any danger, were far enough away 1-2 miles and what wind there is blowing away from us but its really scary to look out your backyard and see this, but this is nothing compared to Chris’s Walas experience in Santa Barbara, we dont have any high winds pushing the fire or any fires hopscotching from neighborhood to neighborhood, its stayed primarily in the wilderness areas. but its grown tremendously compared to yesterday. There are now mandatory evacuations in parts of Altadena, La Canada, Flintridge, La Cresenta and Glendale, they say it will burn to Big Tujunga canyon to the west and all the way clear to Acton to the north and it could be in Eaton Canyon to the east by sometime tommorow.
Yikes. I hope the Santa Ana stays away until it gets under control.
Wow Vic, that’s too close for comfort. Glad you’re out of harm’s way. Great shots.
I was living in the Bay Area during the big Oakland hills fire quite a few years ago. You could see the huge billows of smoke from miles away. A lot of homes gone in that one.
Impressive pics Victor, thanks for posting. I attended many woodland and grassland fires in my time but, thankfully, nothing on the scale that you often get. There are pretty serious fires at present in Greece BTW.
Victor,
Stay safe - that’s spooky.
Wow some pictures. Stay safe.
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Wind changed direction , this is today Whole place smells like a burnt cheeseburger
Thank God for the guys and gals willing to risk flying the water bombers.
And the ones who risk it on the ground.
The radio just said it has gone from a moderate threat to a disaster.
Damn Vic. I’ll take a snowstorm over wildfires any day.
If you want, send me all your valuable train stuff. I’ll take care of it until the danger passes.
Tom Ruby said:Boy you can't get any safer than that! ;) Stay safe Vic.
1. Pack up valuable and irreplaceable items, such as the photo albums, and insurance policy numbers. 2. UPS them to Ric Golding.
Vic I have a spare room you can crash here. You have to bring all your kitbashed engines with you and we can run them on the KMRR 
Vic, I have a shop in Mississippi where you can send your train stuff and store it if needed. I know you may have closer friends than where I live, but I thought I would offer. The fire will never get here, too much farm land! You are in our prayers.
Pray a lot and don’t take chances,
Ron
Thanks for the offers guys 
This fire really exploded yesterday, it started around 200 acres its now over 40K acres 18 homes lost - mostly ranches and remote vacation cabins, burning in 3 directions, its already burned 20 miles to the north. It will be burning for at least another week. We may lose TV signal as the fire is getting dangerously close to Mount Wilson which has all the broadcasting antennas on top.
We’re fine, far enough from the base of the mountains but alot of folks are not.
Just heard on news, as of this morning its at 80K acres 
Material things, however important, can in the main, be replaced.
Sadly the two brave firefighters who have lost their lives cannot. My thoughts are with their families and friends.
