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11414804? ago

That's what I'd like to know- if ya get on calfire incident maps or reports these fires are technically (or were the last I saw) still under investigation.

RageAgainstTheAmish ago

The northern cali fires were caused by high winds dropping tree branches onto power lines due to the extremely long history of PG&E failing to conduct basic maintenance of tree trimming. The resulting blue explosions from transformers shorting out and exploding is the "lightning".

Power transformers are full of oil used as a coolant. When these things explode (which is very common) they leak out burning oil which is quite hard to extinguish.

Also, downed trees blocking main excess roads to these fires hampered response times of firefighters.

It all played out live over the publicly broadcasted scanner radios, and if you research the broadcastify.com archives and begin listening 5 minutes before the fire start time(all information available archived on calfire website), you will hear the shit the firefighters went though.

11415238? ago

Also these fires aren't happening in NorCal...

RageAgainstTheAmish ago

Holy shit are you retarded or ignorant we just lost nearly 200 thousand acres between mendocino, lake, sonoma, and napa counties during one wind store that caused fires and the fires were put out only 2 months ago.

11419563? ago

In particular the sonoma-lake-napa unit fire? The causes? Still under investigation. The fuck are you getting "tree branches" from? CNN? Oh and that's central valley, call it what it is.

RageAgainstTheAmish ago

Did you even read my comment?

Go to the broadcastify archives, look mendocino county archives for October 9, 2017. Begin listening around 22:30:00 [10:30 pm]. You will hear exactly what i heard at home on my police scanner that very night:

(for reference, Potter Valley and Redwood valley are separated by a ridgeline called Laughlin Ridge which travels north-south)

Reach 18 flying from Willits to their base in Lakeport flys over north western potter valley over Laughlin ridge southbound. They are the first to report "explosions with blue fireballs" in potter valley. They straight up say "looks like a transformer explosion". Potter valley fire is dispatced. While en route, the chief of PVF has his access blocked by multipule trees over the road, forcing him and his engines to reroute through peoples properties. Due to the extreme winds, the fire spreads from a blackberry bush to the surrounding vegetation and is quickly blown up Laughlin ridge. He requests a zone 2 first alarm about 15 minutes into the incident, which is one engine from every station in the county. While en route, the chief of Redwood Valley Fire (which is a town on the west side of Laughlin Ridge) witnesses a tree fall onto a high tension power line at the intersection of West Road and Tomki, (north west of the current fire) causing another transformer to explode, starting a second fire which was extremely close to homes. The 60mph constant wind we experienced that right pushed the new fire directory into the town of Redwood Valley. Unable to respond to PV, the RV chief requests his own first alarm due to immediate life threat. At about this time PVF chief finally makes access to the fire which has already began consuming structures. The community is so close knit, they begin naming off family names to reference homes, barns, and outbuildings which are total losses.

About an hour into the incident, the fires merge and begin to blow west, jumping hwy 101 and into the Ridgewood subdivision at about 02:30.

At this point i left my jome and drove to my friends house in redwood valley to help them evacuate their animals.

During the first bout of this incident, PG&E cut power to both Redwood Valley and Potter Valley, hampering the attractiveness of the reverse 911 system.

There were many factors that contributed to this, all you have to do is find the audio. All of this audio is available through www.radioreference.com