NBC: Firefighters battling Los Angeles’ largest-ever fire continued to make progress Monday thanks to cooler temperatures, rain and lighter winds, officials said.
Although the La Tuna fire jumped from 5,800 to 7,000 acres, Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said Monday, firefighters made big gains containing the blaze: They expanded the fire line from 10 percent Sunday to 30 percent Monday.
Still, Terrazas was cautious, saying the fire could continue to grow.
“Fire operations are not over,” he told reporters. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”
The developments came after Gov. Jerry Brown, citing the thousands of threatened homes in the San Fernando Valley, declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County on Sunday afternoon.
But by Sunday night, fire crews had made significant progress in beating back the blaze. One of Los Angeles’s major thoroughfares — Interstate 210 — was reopened, and mandatory evacuations were lifted in Glendale and Burbank and in parts of Los Angeles. more here
“You crackers need any water? We got plenty.”
-Mayor Turner
Maybe if The Tree Huggers would learn to cut firebreaks they wouldn’t have this problem year after year.
To say that this is L.A.’s largest-ever fire is rather extreme. Perhaps the largest within city limits, but the Station fire a few years ago was more than 20x larger.
BigSlurpy
It’s all scrub oak and Manzanita.
That must be one big oily fish.
Mmmm…la tuna…
…la hot tuna…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfhsLuOEWI
JIHADISTS START ANOTHER FIRE.
That’s another part of the news they will not bother to mention.
It was several years ago, (almost a decade I think) in which it was learned that jihadists encouraged using cheap wildfires as a way to destabilize the country and make the U.S. spend money and effort fighting it.
WHAT ABOUT Protecting THAT DELTA FISH????
To protect all aquatic animals shouldn’t LA be allowed to burn down? Fish have rights y’know.
That damned glowbull warming sure is becoming a pain in the ass.
For weeks in the news, “Harvey, Harvey, Harvey” was all we heard, now it’s “LA fires, LA fires, LA fires”. Meanwhile through the entire month of August and now September, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of acres of forests and wild lands in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, all the way to Montana and Colorado have burned to the ground. Billions of dollars in lost resources, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars spent fighting the fires, unhealthy air quality throughout the region, people evacuated, lost homes, etc, etc. But did any of you outside the region hear ANYTHING about it on the national news??? Nope, all you hear about is Harvey, LA, Harvey, LA.
There is a news blackout, I believe, because these fires were the result of a stupid Clinton-era federal policy of “let it burn”.
Fuck LA. A bunch of scrub brush and manzanita burning. In Oregon, the Columbia Gorge, one of the most scenic areas of the lower 48 is toast:
http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/the_gorge_will_never_be_the_sa.html#incart_river_home_pop
Tony R
My son in law is on that fire. I guess it’s big timber. Not good.
Not only that, but it was started by a guy with fireworks.
Half-Assed Patriot is right on the money:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/are-terrorists-setting-u-s-wildfires/
Brad: Thank your son-in-law. The worst fire in the country, the Chetco Bar fire is now at 170,000 acres and only 5% contained. About 60 miles west of here.