LA Regional Fires

[Jack the Knife]

I surely hope anyone close enough to those fires to be effected was able to get out safe and sound. The footage looks horrible. Generations and generations of work to make some of those neighborhoods as beautiful as they were, lost in a blazing moment.

Here's to hoping our membership in and around Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and everywhere in between is okay. I can see more than a few members whose houses may very well have burned.

[Pawel66]

Terrifying...

I am really keeping fingers crossed for people there.

On the other hand - what we see and hear about people there - helpful, caring, taking care of one another, saving neighbours - bringing back faith in humanity.

[Peter van Es]

Hear hear.. and we also see the horrific pictures on TV. I hope all our members in LA are safe, and did not lose their cars...

[johnk]

My duaghter is in charge of life safety on the Red team for FEMA. Last
I knew she was waiting to get called out for the fires.
So sad what is happening there. I am praying for everyone.

[MikeSimon]

I saw remnants of quite a few unique/collector cars burned out on TV and on facebook pictures from friends. Several 911s and even a 914.

[mdsalemi]

I saw remnants of quite a few unique/collector cars burned out on TV and on facebook pictures from friends. Several 911s and even a 914.

Go into any town in the USA and you'll always be surprised what's in the garages. So when entire towns are totally destroyed you can be sure that the collector cars go with them. These are just replaceable items for which there will be no argument on insurance, or anything like it.

I'm far more concerned with the hundreds of thousands of people that lost essentially EVERYTHING but the clothes they wore upon escaping and no where to go and no means to go anywhere either with their cars gone. Rebuilding towns and dwellings will be a nightmare, logistically and financially. Rebuilding lives an entirely different matter.

One of the saddest things I've ever seen.

[MikeSimon]

I was merely commenting to this post.

  I hope all our members in LA are safe, and did not lose their cars...

[Cees Klumper]

Best I can tell from reporting, about 2,000 homes have been destroyed. If we assume 3 people on average per home, that would mean some 6,000 people lost their homes, rather than hundreds of thousands.

[GM]

Cees - from someone who lives here, it's MUCH worse than that.
40,695 acres burned
24 fatalities
12,300+ structures destroyed
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

[49er]

You beat me Gary. Lived in the LA area for over 40 years before moving north 25 years ago. I had so many beautiful rides down Sunset to PCH and up and down the coast in my Pagoda. It was made for that part of town. I am sickened by the scenes of destruction and loss of life there now and know it will take years/decades for both the Palisades/Malibu and Altadena to fully recover. My heart goes out to all my fellow Angelenos.

John

[Cees Klumper]

Not denying these fires are not terrible, but, again, in acreage burned, that's about 1% of the total surface of LA County, and mostly in uninhabited parts. 25 casualties is 25 more than anyone wants, but it pales in comparison to for example the more than 60,000 deaths that occurred in the 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquake.
I lived in LA during the Woolsey fire and saw the destruction in the Santa Monica mountains that caused. Just a few years later, nature there appeared to have recovered fully.