[quote=ucodegen]Almost looks like we have an arsonist… Interesting that one of the Al Qaeda attack approaches that they ‘considered’ or had in papers discovered with them, is the use of forest/brush fires to ‘burn down the town’. Most of these fires have been upwind of population centers.[/quote]
Something going on, looks like encinitas now (Palomar cam)
We’ve been a refugee camp the last couple of days for all the relatives in 4S. I got a little scared biking home yesterday when I saw the smoke coming from Scripps Ranch. Lot of fuel over there, glad they got that one out quickly.
I am not ready to blame arsonists and am sure Horn shouldn’t have stirred up that pot on television at this time. Could be of course, but there are lots of ways for these things to start. Poor preparedness by the county and utilities could be something not to deflect away from so soon.
Easy for a string of impulsive unrelated copy cats to get a fire bug thing going though. The terrorist have dropped the ball by not jumping on the opportunity…not that I want them too….but they couldn’t screw us more easily. I would think there are better areas to start fires that have a chance of becoming massively destructive , so that kind of rules organized terrorism out .
Also, I’d imagine that terrorists wouldn’t want their dastardly deeds to be blamed on nature, accident, or hobos cooking dinner. Highly sceptical that it is terrorism — far too subtle for al Qaeda.
[quote=Blogstar]I am not ready to blame arsonists and am sure Horn shouldn’t have stirred up that pot on television at this time. Could be of course, but there are lots of ways for these things to start. Poor preparedness by the county and utilities could be something not to deflect away from so soon.
Easy for a string of impulsive unrelated copy cats to get a fire bug thing going though. The terrorist have dropped the ball by not jumping on the opportunity…not that I want them too….but they couldn’t screw us more easily. I would think there are better areas to start fires that have a chance of becoming massively destructive , so that kind of rules organized terrorism out .[/quote]
I don’t know. But given the magnitude of the fires and the number of them yesterday, I thing the county did a pretty good job dealing with them versus what happened years ago…
It’s really unfortunate some people lost their homes. But I think the numbers were still much lower than before….(I know, we’re still in the fire season)…
The Bernardo fire burned to within 25 feet of my boss’s property. He said he was very impressed by the fire fighters and their success with keeping the property damage from that one to zilch.
[quote=flu]
It’s really unfortunate some people lost their homes. But I think the numbers were still much lower than before….(I know, we’re still in the fire season)…[/quote]
Great flu jinx us why don’t you.
Just kidding,
looks like two new ones started in fallbrook area.
