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Here are a couple of shots my friends wife took as we were helping him get out.
Ken

His house was spared.

omg i never realized just how bad it looks. i am so glad that eveyone is okay. we do not go through that here in Va.

That`s pretty crazy! I saw plenty of fires when i grew up out there, but none ever that close. My cousin is a fire fighter for the LA County forestry division, im sure he has been real busy.

Some awesome shots, Ken... One heck of a big fire! Glad to hear the house is ok, but that pickup is gonna need some work....

wow! Glad everyone is ok!

Btw..the pics of the cars that are burned down....how did that happen? It looks weird sitting in front of a house with green grass and nothing around it is even charred

Glad your friends faired well. Glad I live over here on the right coast, I don't think I could deal well with the constant threat of fires like they have out your way.

Ken, those are incredible pictures, now I realize what hell must be like. SO glad your friends came thru OK.

Mike

It was awful. If you notice there are no fire trucks are police in the photo's. They called them embers, but there were fire balls flying threw the air at 70 mph up to 3 miles from where they started. They would hit cars or houses, where ever they hit would start another fire. The heat was unbelievable. Houses would just explode. When I finally got home I hugged my wife and grandson and just gave thanks for our safety.
Ken

Wow, totally unbelievable! I can't believe how high those flames are in the pictures, looks monsterous. I've seen a little of this on the news, but your pictures really hit home.

We wish all of you well out there.

Don

We had a little taste of that here in 1998. After an extended drought, it seemed like central Florida was burning down around us. Interstate 95 was closed from St.Augustine to Melbourne (about 140 miles)! Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, and Scottsmoor were particularly hard hit. The closest any of the fires got to my house was about 6 miles, but the smoke outside made it difficult to breathe and there was a constant "snow flurry" of ashes.

When it was over, the aftermath looked very much like the pictures Ken posted here. There would be a cluster of houses burned to the ground and, in the middle of it all, a house or two that were pristine. Weird!

My sympaties to the folks who lost things to the fires out there. The wildfires here was an experience I will never forget and one I hope to never see again. Hurricanes are easier to deal with...

Wow! I worry that we are surrounded by trees close to our house. I need to thin out the trees away from the house. We do get dry spells and this summer we had a brush fire just up the road about 200 yards away and I thought nothing of it but maybe I better think that over. Without much wind the local fire department just came and sprayed water on it but even so it was interesting that old fence posts along the road were in flames. Probably the wind is the main problem, almost anything will burn if you feed enough oxygen to a fire. In freshman Chemistry I tell the students "Fluorine is the Champeen but Oxygen is also mean!" meaning that oxygen is the second most reactive element (after Fluorine).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

What ever the tragedy is, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, or fires. Have you ever seriously thought about making an evacuation from your house with less than 20 minuets to take what you can and walk away? I was really surprised at what people were taking.
I'm guessing about the time frame of those photo's, but we had about 10 minuets until that wall of flames was at the end of the street. Once it started burning the houses and the wind would gust, we had to go. Men were pulling their screaming wives out of the houses with there arms full of photo's, papers, and animals. It was ugly, and so sad. The noise the fire makes is really eerie, friends and relatives were coming to help. If you notice you don't see anybody outside, but a few minuets later everyone was scrambling. I don't mean to ramble, but I think it would be a good idea to make a list of what you would take in a emergency.
Ken

Ken, as far as I'm concerned if my family makes it out alive and unhurt you can burn the rest down. I hope everybody made it out ok.
BradC