Miami covers 55 sq. mi. ...54.6875 sq.mi. is on fire in So Cal

[SoCalDem]

35,000 acres..

It's mostly uninhabited so far, but as a size reference, Miami would be a goner..:(

Most of our city's equipment left to help out, so here's hoping we (or other communities) do have any fires :scared:

[lovuian]

1. wow

my friend in San Diego had to leave her house last time and narrowly escaped

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. news said the circumference of the fire is 110 miles!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. pics from fire from LA times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-0826-morris-fire-pictures,0,2039975.photogallery

[Iggo]

5. That last picture is the one.

That's what the sky looks like down here, folks.

You look up, you can't miss it.

[BlooInBloo]

10. That's approx 1,000 sq miles, btw.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. No, 1000 is way too high. Feeling too lazy to look up circum of circle & area formula

It's the weekend!

[BlooInBloo]

14. Sigh. Pi * r^2 and its derivative.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. ok ok... I did the math. Calculated 796 square miles: Circum^2/(4*pi)

based on 100 circ.

Seems way too high. Maybe the newsperson mispoke when they said 110+ circ/. or maybe they are referring to the fire danger area

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Very smoky here in Big Bear Lake. Keeping our fingers crossed. n/t

[Creena]

6. I read OCFA sent up some help.

I think just 24 deputies. I'm sure all cities are scared to lose personnel with the heat wave. The last fire that caused voluntary evacuations for us was arson, so I'm hoping everyone is on high alert looking for any sick person wanting to wreak havoc.

[SoCalDem]

7. RoseBowl last night...

[livetohike]

9. Oh my.....

:cry: My sister and b-i-l lived in Pasadena (while we lived in Oceanside). We are all back East now. This is horrible. I know some of my favorite hiking spots in the Angeles are burned to a crisp.

[malaise]

8. Stay safe

You may get some rain from Cat 4 hurricane Jimena :grouphug:

[JDPriestly]

11. Surely you meant, "here's hoping se . . . DON'T have any fires"?

You are scaring me. I am in L.A.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. I assumed there was a typo

[SoCalDem]

15. Dammit.. this keyboard cannot read my mind.. I DID mean hope we do NOT have any fires

every fire truck we have (well probably not ALL) went screaming down the street behind us this morning about 2 AM..all headed for the freeway.. There must have been about 10 of them all "convoyed" & on their way. We all share resources..:)

[JDPriestly]

17. Again tonight, we went down the street to watch the fires.

There are more small spots of flames, but the huge burning areas are not on our side of the mountain. We see a lot of smoke from the northern side.