Shy Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=darkblue][size=1]...or is my house gonna burn down? In my small corner of Southern California a huge fire started a few days ago, many miles away from my hous. But over the week it has begun to grow larger and larger, and it has been moving closer and closer to my town (and more importantly, my house). About 3,000 firefighters are working hard to stop this thing. But it isn't working, and a few people I knew at school were forced to evacuate their homes. the cars in our driveway are beginning to get blanketed with all of the ashes, and I am beginning to worry. Hopefully the fire can be contained (it is still a safe distance from where I live) but the thought of having to evacuate scares me. I was hoping that writing about the fires would calm me down a bit; but it hasn't. Talk about your expeirences with fires here or something... -Shy[/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=royalblue]A few years ago, there was a large fire in the Dandenong Mountains (Warlock might remember it)...and even now, you can see a huge "scar" over the mountain in the distance...where the fire destroyed all the forest. The fire was burning over Christmas time...and I was at my aunt's house on Christmas day. Every few minutes, a huge helicopter would fly overhead and dump water on the fire. It felt like it was very nearby (it was actually only a few miles away). And we were told by the authorities that we could be asked to evacuate at any moment. We even got to the point of packing some things away in preparation. But luckily, they managed to get control of the fire. So yeah, it was scary...but if you have fair warning, you should be fine. It would be a lot worse if you were suddenly caught with the fire near your house or something. Hopefully they'll get it under control soon :)[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsung Li Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I havent had any experiances with fire in that nature, but I hope the firefighters can contain it before it spreads any further and forces you to evacuate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Webb Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I hope the fire is controlled before it reaches you, or you at least have enough warning to pack up and go before it reaches you. I remember a few years ago on July 4, my family and friends-of-family were lighting fireworks in the streets (even though it's illegal where I used to live). One of my mom's friends lit a bottle-rocket (which is illegal... period) and it flew off into the tree next door. The tree caught on fire and it spread to the roof. This was only next door, so we thought it would've reached our house. Luckily it was put out before anybody got hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=blue][size=1]We had some big fires over here...last Christmas I think it was. (or was it beginning of the year?) Anyway, it wasn't really near us, it was in a different state, but Mum used to watch the news reports almost fanatically because my sister lived just near the fire zone. In the end, my sister moved to a friend's place until her flat burned down or the fires were contained. They were contained. [/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I know how you feel... In South Dakota over the Summer, we had around seven major fires in the Black Hills. At least two of them were fewer than ten miles from our house... My cousin, who lived in the outskirts of town, packed up alot of her important stuff and brought it round to our house... Scary stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorykoAngelcry Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [COLOR=darkred][SIZE=1]Wow Shyguy, I really hope that it is stopped or at least contained a bit before you are forced to evacuate. While I have been very fortunate never to have been in an area where fires have ever started on that big of a scale, I can definitely say that a tornado or two have come near us. The first one happened when our family had gone to Michigan to visit family. We were coming back, and just saw everything destroyed along the highway that we were coming down. We were really worried but fortunately, our house was untouched. The next time it happened was no where close, but we remember hearing how it was supposed to come our way, and when the tornado actually turned our way, it was like - oh no! - fortunately, it changed course again before it finally died down. Both weren't seriously close to our house, but the fear from the second one is still in my mind. . [/SIZE][/COLOR] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [size=1][color=blue]Shyguy, hopefully they'll be able to control the fire before it gets to close to your house. But if you have to be evacuated, at least, like James said, you'll have enough warning to leave in time. We have a bushfire here every now and then...behind the houses across the road is just bush, trees, grass...you know, that kind of stuff, so they have fires really close to there house. One time there was a fire that came so close there was little bits of ash floating around and water bombers were flying over all the time. It was scary but we've never had to evacuate. I think a lot of the bushfires around here are deliberately lit. By delinquent teenagers, probably the same ones from my school.[/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=red] A while back when I still lived in Salt Lake City, UT. (I live in Bismarck, ND now), when my brother was about 5, he started a fire in our house. He had been fooling with a lighter, and lit a drawer full of store reciepts alight in the drawer. He torched over half of our kitchen, ruined numerous other things because of the smoke. I was just happy that no one got hurt. But we did have insuarance, so we got a new TV for virtually nothing, a new oven, microwave, ect. Also we had to stay in a motel for about a 3 months or so until we could go back to our house. Not a good experience to say the least, but I'm just glad that my brother didn't get killed. I'm really glad.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathKnight Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=crimson]I live in the middle of a forest, but there are no fires here for some reason. But Shy, I really hope that nothing bad happens to you, your family, or your house. Good luck Man. -K[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gojay Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 :([color=blue][size=1] Well...I haven't really had any experiences with fires like you guys have but, a while back when I was younger, my cousin an his so called friends were playing with some aresol cans, alcohol, and some mathches and they all really got burned. Don't worry shy everythings gonna be alright.:smirk:[/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raquel Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Where I used to live in Cali was a real disaster zone... I lived in Topanga Canyon... It's in LA... In 1993-94 There was a huge wild fire in the canyon... My kindergarten teacher's house was in it and tons of forest was burnt down... Those water bomber things would pass over about every five minates... I would just sit outside on the swings and watch them for hours... The fire was stopped a few miles from where I lived... The night before it was stopped if you stood on the roof of out house, you could see the glow... My parents refused to evacuate so it was quite a close call... Odd thing was I wasn?t scared at all... Just hang in there... You'll be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geist Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I would be pretty scared too, if I were you Shy. I hope you, and everyone else around the fire comes out okay. (And not well done...Sorry, bad joke.) The only experience I've had with fire was small and sort of funny. On New Year's Eve, a couple of my friends shot a bottle rocket down a sewer grate. Soon after, flames started shooting up!:laugh:...I guess you'd have to have been there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kei Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [color=blue]I hope that fire can be contained. I've never had a huge fire, but a fire started by someone's cigarette forced me to move about eight or nine years ago. [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 [b]Theres not much chance of something like that happening in England, and there has never been a huge fire that I have been caught up in, but I must say I hope it doesn't reach your town or your house.. My mother knows someone who's family were evacuated from a small town on the edge of a forest (in Australia) that was pretty much entirely alight, they got out, but I think their house was quite badly damaged.[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boris Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 well, shyguy, the fire has to get past me first.(really, it dose, i live up the hill from him......) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liamc2 Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Ah Bushfire season. I really can't say I've been affected much by bushfires, other than that massive one last christmas,( my uncle was near the firing line) Nasty business there. James, I believe those massive helicopters you saw were the 'Elvis' helicopters hired from the united states at AUS$500 000 a pop. --- Last Sunday we drove down the Warrego Highway and there was a massive amount of smoke blanketing the road. Pretty bad for driving, but it smelt good...mmm...eucalyptus... Anyhow, after driving down there and back, we reached the final stretch, the New England H/W. Anyhow the car started sputtering and completely stopped before we turned onto it. We're all sitting in the car thinking, 'O.O;;;;;;' Dad restarts it and revvs the car for a while in neutral, then everything is A ok. It turns out that the filter, (it was old to begin with) was so filled up with the smoke that it kinda, starved the car for power... I'm rambling aren't I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Love and stuff, Shy. Stay safe. I don't want to have to worry about you, kay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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