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Subject: Re: Has anyone heard from BTR1701 today?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:45:23 -0500
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On 2025-01-09 4:49 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:59:01 GMT, Ed Stasiak
> <user1263@newsgrouper.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Rhino
>>>
>>> Given the fires that are all over LA and the fact that he hasn't posted,
>>> it would be nice to now that he and his pets are somewhere safe.
>>
>> Heard that the power was out in large parts of LA, both from the fires
>> damaging lines and the power company turning off lines to prevent
>> them from sparking fires.
>>
>> Though I'd expect him to have a generator (unless Kalifornia finally
>> got around to banning them...).
> 
> Having a generator at your home won't help if the cable/telephone
> companies equipment has been destroyed by the fires. It's so sad to
> see how spread out the fires are so they are impacting a huge number
> of people. Saw a sad video from CNN with James Woods who lost his home
> in the fires and had a 90 something neighbor who wasn't mentally all
> there who almost died in the fires. (Apparently left behind but with
> the intent to come back for him, but the fire took out the house about
> an hour after they did remove him so it could have gone so much
> worse.)
> 
I saw that too. I think Woods was still in shock. What a frightening 
experience for all concerned! He's a good man for having checked with 
the son to determine the neighbour was at the house instead of just 
assuming that the old guy was safe in the hospital.

> Looking at different videos it seems too many people didn't realize
> how quickly the fires could spread. Which I get as even I would expect
> the fires to spread slowly but with those winds of up to 80 MPH the
> fires can spread so much faster than one would expect.
> 

I hope they gather the smartest people available and try to figure out 
some ways to prevent recurrences of this kind of problem, whether that 
includes creating more fire breaks around communities, trimming back 
undergrowth, increasing the moisture on the plants and trees so they're 
not so flammable, etc. etc.

> Hoping all is well with BTR.

Amen!
-- 
Rhino