New evacuations as huge Southern California fire flares up – IOTW Report

New evacuations as huge Southern California fire flares up

FOX:

Southern California’s largest and most destructive wildfire exploded in size Sunday, forcing more people in the path of the unpredictable flames to get out with their lives.

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The so-called Thomas fire has burned about 200,000 acres and is only 15 percent contained, Fox 11 reported. The fire grew by more than 25,000 acres during the day, the Los Angeles Times added. Officials ordered new evacuations for people living east of Mission Canyon and north of Highway 192.

“Some places the smoke is going straight up in the air, and others it’s blowing sideways. Depends on what canyon we’re in,” Santa Barbara County fire spokesman Mike Eliason said. “The winds are kind of squirrely right now.”  more

11 Comments on New evacuations as huge Southern California fire flares up

  1. Looks like Oprah and Ellen Degenerate get their first experience to evacuate a fire and possibly see their mansions go up in smoke. You see, it does not matter who you are, wealthy or poor, disaster strikes. The rich can recover, those who don’t have a pot to piss in, will never recover. I live in California and have experienced 3 wildfires in my hood and had to evacuate. We were lucky all 3 times, some of our friends weren’t so lucky.

  2. ISIS? in CA? Where else can
    a whackjob go on a sunny picnic
    and flip a match that causes
    loss of life and many millions
    in damages? Why bother with NYC
    when LA is waiting for the jihad
    torch? Keep those borders open
    Brown, the enemy is laughing.

  3. I realize this is a devastating natural disaster, however this did come to mind:

    Genesis 19:24
    Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

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