Fire is a given part of living in Southern California. If you live around the fringes of the metropolis, you've had one threaten or burn down your home at one time or another. In 2007, we had one come within three blocks of ours...
...stopped by the OCFD about ten feet from the houses. You could see the blackened patch of sage scrub for over a year, until a plentiful rain incited the wildflowers and grass to cover the spot. Our fire department...
...had a strategy: they only fought the flames when they actually threatened homes and businesses.
When we saw the plume of smoke that marked the Bolsa Chica Fire we wondered if the brush wind from the ocean would...
When we saw the plume of smoke that marked the Bolsa Chica Fire we wondered if the brush wind from the ocean would...
...drive the fire into the houses on the mesa overlooking the Ecological Reserve. Though surrounded by wetlands, the vegetation on the mesa consisted of chapparal buckwheat and other inflammatory plants. The fire department...
...arrived within minutes of ignition, bringing fire engines and a water-loaded helicopter to bomb the flames into submission. We stood on wetlands trails marveling at the other world that allowed the fire to spread and the one that stopped it.
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We who live in the edges of Southern California have seen conflagrations that burned down whole sections. The winds from the sea, however, are not like the winds from the mountains. They are moist where...
...the infamous Santa Anas are dry. The Bolsa Chica Fire was out by 7 pm. The aged beach bums who watched from their backyards were never threatened. This fire was spawned in mid summer -- a dry season, to be sure,...
...but nothing like the time of the fire drake that is Autumn. Our eyes will be in the wilderness park adjacent to our neighborhood and the mountains behind us. There is tinder aplenty there. It takes only one crazed arsonist to scythe the homes and everything.
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