@ai6yr my friends who somehow got lucky and didn't have their house burn in Altadena said about 75% of the town is gone. I can't think of another fire in the last 40 years in this country burning into a major metro area and basically wiping a city of 40+k people off the map.
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Colin Warren
In response to this post@douglasvb @ai6yr My officemate’s house was about dead center in that image, and the photos he shared certainly looked like a total loss towards the mountain
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Michael Busch
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I remember the Tubbs Fire burning through Santa Rosa; the Camp Fire burning into Chico; and far too many smaller fires in the San Gabes.
There are so many such disasters happening that I had to think through the list...
@michael_w_busch @douglasvb @ai6yr There have been many fires in the San Gabriel mountains, but this one started at the base of the mountains and moved rapidly into Altadena populated areas. The previous fires were almost entirely in the mountains. The Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa was driven by winds into populated areas.
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