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    NASA Photos: California Fires Seen From Space, $9 billion in insured losses

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    NASA Photos: California Fires Seen From Space as Giant Plumes of Smoke

    By Sydney Pereira On 12/6/17 at 10:32 AM

    Thick plumes of smoke bellowed from raging fires in southern California through Tuesday night—so thick and extensive it could be seen from space.
    Thick smoke streamed from several fires in southern California when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image in the afternoon on December 5, 2017. NASA/Joshua Stevens
    NASA captured the photo Tuesday afternoon from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite, which shows the quickest and largest blaze, Thomas fire in Ventura County and two smaller fires south of Ventura. The fire has destroyed more than 50,000 acres, according to Cal Fire, the state's Department for Forestry and Fire Protection. Two smaller fires, Rye and Creek, in Los Angeles County, have destroyed 5,000 and more than 11,000 acres respectively. (Per Cal Fire, fires are typically named for the areas where they start.) The fire, which began Monday night, has forced 27,000 people to flee their homes.

    “The fire is very dangerous and spreading rapidly, but we’ll continue to attack it will all we’ve got,” Governor Jerry Brown said Tuesday in a statement. “It’s critical residents stay ready and evacuate immediately if told to do so.”

    http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-photos-...s-smoke-739769



    No indication of foul play. This was in news few weeks ago:

    Cal Fire continues to probe cause of deadly wildfires despite arson arrest


    • Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said an arson suspect was seen "walking away from a small fire."
    • The 29-year-old suspect allegedly had "a fire extinguisher and a lighter with him," the sheriff said.
    • Despite the arson arrest, Cal Fire said Tuesday afternoon it continues to investigate the cause of each of the wildfires in Northern California.
    • The wildfires have claimed more than 41 lives, and many more people remain listed as missing.

    Jeff Daniels | @JeffDanielsca
    Published 5:36 PM ET Tue, 17 Oct 2017
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/cal-...on-arrest.html



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    It's crazy. It's like a blast furnace with those winds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    It's crazy. It's like a blast furnace with those winds.
    It's been in the upper 30s at night, I've been freezing..
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    The predominant wind direction is WNW or NW, but the reason for the fires is the santa anas that create the NE winds which is why they are blowing out into the ocean.

    Imagine if those plumes were going over Los Angeles, instead of out into the ocean..
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    maybe the heat will aggravate the fault lines and California will break off from the continent and go floating out to sea.

    that would be awesome sauce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Save Trump the hassle of building the wall.
    Right now the fires are burning the rich people in Bel-Air and a few skinheads who hang out down by the river in Ventura.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Right now the fires are burning the rich people in Bel-Air and a few skinheads who hang out down by the river in Ventura.
    FT reported famous old house of Johnny Cash was surrounded by ring of fire:


    Daily briefing: Trump’s Jerusalem call, Apple’s likely $47bn tax windfall, California ring of fire

    California fire reaches Pacific Fires have been spreading in Southern California, fanned by the seasonal Santa Ana winds. The biggest, in Ventura county, jumped Highway 101 to reach the Pacific Ocean, after consuming more than 50,000 acres. More than 27,000 people have been forced to flee and a ring of fire has surrounded Johnny Cash’s former home.

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    Most likely it was "act of God" as there have been various such incidences, considering below recent news , hopefully possible causes are being checekd out.

    Cal Fire continues to probe cause of deadly wildfires despite arson arrest


    • Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said an arson suspect was seen "walking away from a small fire."
    • The 29-year-old suspect allegedly had "a fire extinguisher and a lighter with him," the sheriff said.
    • Despite the arson arrest, Cal Fire said Tuesday afternoon it continues to investigate the cause of each of the wildfires in Northern California.
    • The wildfires have claimed more than 41 lives, and many more people remain listed as missing.


    Jeff Daniels | @JeffDanielsca
    Published 5:36 PM ET Tue, 17 Oct 2017
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/cal-...on-arrest.html

    60,000 flee massive fires raging across Haifa; arson suspected

    Buildings consumed in several locations; 11 neighborhoods cleared; 100 treated for minor injuries; other fires across country; Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Turkey send help; police chief: some suspects in custody

    By TOI staff 24 November 2016


    A picture taken on November 24, 2016 shows a bushfire raging in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. Hundreds of Israelis fled their homes on the outskirts of the country's third city Haifa with others trapped inside as firefighters struggled to control raging bushfires, officials said. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

    Some sixty thousand people were evacuated from their homes in Haifa Thursday as a wave of wildfires threatened the bay metropolis, bolstered by high winds and dry conditions that have contributed to a spate of blazes across the country this week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Right now the fires are burning the rich people in Bel-Air and a few skinheads who hang out down by the river in Ventura.
    Those aren't skinheads, they're unemployed crisis actors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raginfridus View Post
    Those aren't skinheads, they're unemployed crisis actors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamesiv1 View Post
    maybe the heat will aggravate the fault lines and California will break off from the continent and go floating out to sea.

    that would be awesome sauce.

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    Seein' people drive out thru a blizzard of embers... freaky.


    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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    Ventura:



    Entire neighborhoods burned to the ground....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Created4 View Post
    Ventura:


    Entire neighborhoods burned to the ground....
    How are houses completely vanished yet they are surrounded by trees that look just fine?
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    How are houses completely vanished yet they are surrounded by trees that look just fine?
    Houses burn better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    How are houses completely vanished yet they are surrounded by trees that look just fine?
    Those were green and growing trees, but they are certainly not "fine"
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    How are houses completely vanished yet they are surrounded by trees that look just fine?
    Crisis actors. They're in the trees, man.

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    Scary stuff. It's almost like armageddon has come.

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    So this fire is still raging on, fifth largest fire on record and may very well go up in the list.. I've been having to wear a mask outside due to all the smoke.

    But here's a funny government failure:

    With a rush to pick crops before they wilted under the ash, owners nevertheless dispatched their workers, masks or no masks. Complaints started flooding into Cal/OSHA, but the state agency had closed its regional headquarters in Van Nuys and its Oxnard satellite office soon after the fire began. Recordings told callers they could fax a complaint form that would be received the following week. But under mounting pressure from Ventura residents, and state legislators Monique Limón and Hannah-Beth Jackson, Cal/OSHA reopened its Oxnard office on Friday and started deploying staff into the fields.


    https://www.independent.com/news/201...-left-out-tho/
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    So this fire is still raging on, fifth largest fire on record and may very well go up in the list.. I've been having to wear a mask outside due to all the smoke.

    But here's a funny government failure:



    https://www.independent.com/news/201...-left-out-tho/
    Dollar wise I would expect this to be very high . What about loss of life ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Dollar wise I would expect this to be very high . What about loss of life ?
    Fire officials said residents in Ventura County who quickly obeyed evacuation orders were the main reason why confirmed deaths linked to the fires have been avoided.

    ..
    http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...htmlstory.html
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    Sounds like California is long over due for a tax hike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    I wonder what their immigration status was?
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