Alta dena fire now

[lbhsbz]

Now we have the Woodley fire in the Sepulveda Basin....damn, can't catch a break

 

[4Waters]

 

[rivermobster]

My daughter is in Mexico...

Her boyfriend's sister is (was) staying at her apartment in Pasadena...

She was evacuated last night. No power and massive smoke.

Rosemead and Huntington.

 

[bilz]

I know all are buisy, but what is the best way to find out about your home?

 

[4Waters]

Now we have the Woodley fire in the Sepulveda Basin....damn, can't catch a break

Almost guaranteed that was started by homeless. It appears forward progress has been stopped

 

[Mandelon]

I grew up in Pasadena, used to ride my bike and my little CT 70 around Eaton wash. Scary.

 

[rivermobster]

I grew up in Pasadena, used to ride my bike and my little CT 70 around Eaton wash. Scary.

 

[pixrthis]

You ok? Need trucks?
Sean is in the middle of the Hurst fire area.

We’re good Bruce, we’re close but just to the edge of it. As long as the wind doesn’t change we shouldn’t have a problem but we’re as prepared as we can be if we need to be. Thanks for asking.

 

[Justsomeguy]

Anyone in the area? My sister thinks her house is gone. Off Lincoln. Feel for them right now. At least my parents have a good size house they can stay at for now.

 

[Aces & Eights]

Yesterday I was golfing at Woodley Lakes and they called everyone off the course at once (I had just completed the 12th hole). The wind was blowing so hard they were worried debris and trees falling down were going to hurt the golfers so they made that decision. We all got refunded. Never experienced that before.

 

[bilz]

Just found out my sister's home burned. Mount Curve Poppy Field area.

 

[Justsomeguy]

Just found out my sister's home burned. Mount Curve Poppy Field area.

Sorry to hear that. We are trying to confirm status of my sister's home as well.

 

[Justsomeguy]

Wish the images were really time.

 

[coolchange]

We’re good Bruce, we’re close but just to the edge of it. As long as the wind doesn’t change we shouldn’t have a problem but we’re as prepared as we can be if we need to be. Thanks for asking.

Cool. I know this isn’t your first barbecue. Hit me up if you need something.

 

[bilz]

Sorry to hear that. We are trying to confirm status of my sister's home as well.

Hoping for good news for your sister.

 

[4Waters]

This fire has almost caught the PP fire in size even though the PP fire has an 8-9hr head start

PP fire 11,800 acres
Eaton fire 10,600 acres

 

[4Waters]

Took long enough gavin

 

[bilz]

Just met with my sister at my mom's place. Man it was tough. They pretty much just have the clothes on their backs. Fortunately we have a large extended family.

 

[Morehart]

So sorry to hear. The state has failed you guys. If you need anything pm me.

Just met with my sister at my mom's place. Man it was tough. They pretty much just have the clothes on their backs. Fortunately we have a large extended family.

S

 

[boatpi]

New one in Acton I just heard.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

They need to start shooting these pyros.

 

[D19]

Sounds like my aunt and uncle just lost their house in this one.

 

[Mandelon]

California

With firefighters stretched thin, Altadena residents battle to save homes from flames​

Samuel Girma tries to prevent the spread of a fire next door on LaPaz Road in Altadena.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By James Rainey
, Nathan Solis, Matthew Ormseth, Brittny Mejia and Melissa Gomez
Jan. 8, 2025 Updated 3:30 PM PT

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• The Eaton fire in unincorporated Altadena and nearby Pasadena burned more than 10,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon.
• Five people were dead of unknown causes, authorities said.
• The fire destroyed more than 100 structures.

As the winds whipped out of the north, and embers began to rain down, almost everyone had left J.C. Matsuura’s neighborhood in Altadena.
But Matsuura had no intention of following the evacuation order issued as the Eaton fire rapidly spread Tuesday night, engulfing homes and businesses that stood in its path. Even after Matsuura’s wife left, taking the family dogs, the 65-year-old stood his ground.

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5 dead, more than 1,100 structures destroyed as firestorm besieges L.A. County​

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Armed only with a garden hose and determination, Matsuura kept the embers and flames away from his home of 20 years. It was not until a ghastly dawn that a fire crew from the U.S. Forest Service arrived. By then, homes on two sides of Matsuura’s had caught fire.
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Steve Salinas shields himself from intense heat as he hoses down a neighbor’s rooftop on Sinaloa Avenue in Altadena.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
With firefighters stretched thin, with three major fires burning in L.A. County as of Wednesday afternoon, residents such as Matsuura decided to stay and wage a battle to save their homes.
“We’re doing the very best we can. But no, we don’t have enough fire personnel in L.A. County between all the departments to handle this,” L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said at a Wednesday news conference in downtown L.A.

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The Eaton fire had burned more than 10,000 acres near Altadena and Pasadena by Wednesday afternoon. Five people were dead, and several others were seriously injured, according to a spokesperson from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. More than 100 structures have been destroyed, Marrone said.
Fire and law enforcement officials strongly discourage people from staying in their homes, because it can put residents and first responders in grave danger. Marrone said officials have seen “a high number of significant injuries to residents who did not evacuate” from the Palisades fire about 24 miles to the west, which has charred more than 15,000 acres.

Matsuura said he wouldn’t leave, couldn’t leave, because of everything that his modest home on New York Avenue meant. He had built a business there — repairing motorcycles of all kinds, including collectors’ Ducatis and Harley Davidsons.
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“I stayed because this is my home, it’s my business. It’s a lot,” he said. “I didn’t want to lose it. I didn’t want my equipment to be burnt down. So I figured if I stayed long enough, I might be able to save it.”
As other residents fled the unincorporated community of Altadena on Tuesday night, they encountered an apocalyptic scene. Streets congested with evacuees. Windshields covered in ash. Downed trees. Lawns and homes catching fire around them.

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Fast-moving Eaton fire explodes in Pasadena, Altadena: ‘We’re not playing around. This is serious’​

Jan. 7, 2025
Among the casualties? The Altadena Community Church. The local post office. An untold number of homes.
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Carter Johns was in his bedroom on Roosevelt Avenue when he heard sirens about 7:15 pm. The 17-year-old looked outside and saw the mountainside north of his family’s Altadena home was a sheet of flame.
Embers were sailing down on roofs, Johns recalled. He ran down the street banging on doors.
“People had no idea,” he said.

Los Angeles County firefighters arrive to fight a house fire on Sinaloa Avenue in Altadena.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
One frantic neighbor had a baby and no car, he said. Johns’ father took the woman and child with their family to his job site near the Rose Bowl, where they waited out the night.
As the fire spread Tuesday night, Casey Nunes, 28, drove from a band rehearsal back to his rented home in Altadena in an attempt to save some of his belongings. The sky was red and the air choked with smoke.
“It was pretty apocalyptic and cinematic in a weird way,” Nunes said.
While trying to navigate streets, Nunes watched a lawn catch on fire. His truck became engulfed in embers as he sped down roads, dodging fallen tree branches. When he finally reached the house, the fire was just 300 yards or so up the hillside. When Nunes stepped out of his car, he said, it felt as if someone had left a heater on. The howling wind sent ash into his eyes.
He grabbed family photos, his computer and valuable instruments, including guitars, recording equipment and speakers. As he left, he spotted a neighbor who told Nunes he planned to stay.
“I’m not going to let people rob my house,” the neighbor told him.
“That’s crazy,” Nunes said. “What’s there to rob if it burns down?”
Authorities later said two people were arrested for looting in the area of the Eaton fire.
After evacuating Tuesday night, Denise Norden and her husband, Greg, arrived to find several fires burning around their Altadena home before dawn Wednesday.

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Seeing no firefighters on their street, the couple — along with other residents — grabbed garden hoses, buckets and shovels. They hosed down their roofs and those of their neighbors. They soaked the plants and front yards as embers set off small fires around the neighborhood.
“We realized if we did not make a stand we would lose it all,” Denise Norden said.
Early Wednesday morning, Steve Salinas called his neighbor Jimmy Orlandini to say Orlandini’s front yard was on fire. Orlandini evacuated his family to Rancho Cucamonga but arrived back home in the early morning darkness to find other neighbors dousing homes.
When a home two doors down from Orlandini’s house caught fire, he and another neighbor climbed onto the roof to spray it down.
The heat and smoke rolled into Orlandini’s face. He sprayed his head with water and covered his face with his shirt.
“If the fire department would just get here, they could save it all,” said one woman, who declined to give her name.
About 8:30 a.m. a Los Angeles County fire engine appeared down the street. Exhausted neighbors cheered. One woman sobbed and ran to the corner pointing, crying out, “Please, save our homes.”
Firefighters were able to save the home where Orlandini and Salinas had made their stand. The side of the home was damaged, but it remained upright.
Others were not as fortunate.
On Wednesday morning, Kevin Tyson watched the smoldering wreckage of the medical buildings his family has owned for decades.
Piled outside the Two Palms Nursing Center were soot-stained gurneys and wheelchairs. Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.
Next door, an AltaMed medical facility had collapsed on itself, its metal roof twisted in the heat of the flames that swept through Tuesday night.
Tyson, a retired internal medicine doctor, came that night to check on the medical compound that was once his family’s home.
“When my folks first moved to Pasadena in 1972, this is where we moved,” said Tyson, 54. “This is our family story.”
One of the family’s buildings wasn’t touched by flame: Crown City Rehabilitation, where Tyson’s sister still works.
“In the hopscotch of fate, you never know what’s going to survive,” he said. “This is the tragedy of fire.”
On Altadena Drive near Altadena Community Church, a sheriff’s deputy sat in a patrol car to keep drivers away from a downed power line. The church was engulfed in flames, and plumes of black, acrid smoke blanketed the intersection.
Nearby, Ned Fakhoury watched in panic as the church fire threatened his nearby Chevron station. He had been up since 4:30 a.m. helping friends evacuate. But now the gas station, which had been in his family since the 1980s, would probably be damaged.
Across the street, the Bunny Museum was on fire, its 46,000-plus rabbit-related items in grave danger.
“This is devastating,” Fakhoury said. “The whole city just got erased.”
At his home on Wednesday, Matsuura remained focused on his desperate task, dressed all in black with nothing but a black bandanna to filter the noxious air. He had persisted, even as the wind ripped composite tiles from his roof and sent branches, dirt and debris whipping through the air.
His home seemed safe, but Matsuura gestured at flames that still crackled less than 50 yards away.
“That’s what I’m worried about right there,” he said. “It ain’t over yet.”

 

[4Waters]

Our equipment operator is in the area of this fire, we haven't heard from him today

 

[Ziggy]

Reading those makes me wanna own a fire hose...I got hydrants out front

 

[stillhustlin]

We’re in Sierra Madre. Fire was 1 mile from us and and mandatory evacuations got one block from us. Several homes lost here but Altadena is getting destroyed. Pretty much the entire intersection of Lake and Altadena is gone. Probably 20-30 commercial businesses are gone. Tons of homes in this area are getting hit and it’s super spotty. Many homes you would think are low fire risk are completely gone.

 

[Morehart]

Reading those makes me wanna own a fire hose...I got hydrants out front

It doesn't help when they run dry. Best bet is pump out your pool. Can't pump gas when the power is out. Freeways shut down. The mayor Karen bass needs a kick in the head from a horse for smiling on live television. The dyke fire chief can get the same. Newsom will have some explanations

 

[dezrtracer]

I could see this fire from the 118 and Rocky Peak, it's an absolute wind tunnel through there so I couldn't safely take a pic. I stopped and took this pic on Foothill and Wentworth around the corner from my yard, I may have trouble getting to my yard this afternoon to get my car.

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Damn you are close to me . I'm in west Sunland . Hope this wind dies out ..

 

[dezrtracer]

Took long enough gavin
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Newscum should have had them deployed when the fires started . He needs to go ....

 

[WildHorses24]

It doesn't help when they run dry. Best bet is pump out your pool. Can't pump gas when the power is out. Freeways shut down. The mayor Karen bass needs a kick in the head from a horse for smiling on live television. The dyke fire chief can get the same. Newsom will have some explanations

BIL works for the CVWD, Rubio Canyon water lost all their sites in the fire that serves Altadena and some of Pasadena, anyone left in the area will have to Boil water for the foreseeable future. LaCanada and Cresenta Valley are on generators and rationing water, no power to run pumps at wells to replenish the reservoirs.

Have many family evacuated in Monrovia, Hastings Ranch and Pasadena still... prayers to those that lost everything.

 

[poncho]

This is truly horrifying, I feel for all of you affected.

 

[Justsomeguy]

In the midst of horror and sadness. I bring but a spot of good news. While unfortunately literally everything around them is gone. The crews put the fire out right as it hit my sisters home. A wall was busted a bit but that's it.

all her neighbors homes are gone. The trees in her yard on the property lines all gone. Truly amazing hers is still standing. One of the fire fighters sons is good friends with my nephew. He knew the house. Sounds like he saved the day.

 

[4Waters]

In the midst of horror and sadness. I bring but a spot of good news. While unfortunately literally everything around them is gone. The crews put the fire out right as it hit my sisters home. A wall was busted a bit but that's it. View attachment 1467514 all her neighbors homes are gone. The trees in her yard on the property lines all gone. Truly amazing hers is still standing. One of the fire fighters sons is good friends with my nephew. He knew the house. Sounds like he saved the day.

They need to plaster that house, they got lucky

 

[stillhustlin]

Solid video if you’re looking for some insight. This was taken this morning. A lot of additional structures burned through the day.

 

[riverroyal]

Reading those makes me wanna own a fire hose...I got hydrants out front

1 1/2 hose with adaptor is all you need. I've done it, about as easy as it sounds

 

[JB in so cal]

1 1/2 hose with adaptor is all you need. I've done it, about as easy as it sounds

Get that submersible pump? More reliable than a hydrant. Homo

 

[Morehart]

In the midst of horror and sadness. I bring but a spot of good news. While unfortunately literally everything around them is gone. The crews put the fire out right as it hit my sisters home. A wall was busted a bit but that's it. View attachment 1467514 all her neighbors homes are gone. The trees in her yard on the property lines all gone. Truly amazing hers is still standing. One of the fire fighters sons is good friends with my nephew. He knew the house. Sounds like he saved the day.

I remember when the line fire happened I got some tough love from @stephenkatsea . I only had bad thoughts. Even though we lost 2 cabins and about a mill in equipment, there was a silver lining. We still have my grandparents little log cabin and are positive to deal with the inevitable Santa Ana winds and fires. Still again, if you need anything I'll help out anyway I can. My mom lives in LA Crescenta. I live in sunland

 

[JayBreww]

Get that submersible pump? More reliable than a hydrant. Homo

Hopefully it’s gas powered.

 

[riverroyal]

Get that submersible pump? More reliable than a hydrant. Homo

I have a few. We also now have water lines around house. They are piped and pre pressure reg. So around 100psi. Next project is rain birds around 3 sides direct to incoming city water.
Prob gonna expedite that little project

House is on battery.
New truck is powerboost with the big generator option.

With all that I'm still notvas prepped as I will be

 

[riverroyal]

Hopefully it’s gas powered.

Not gas. Although it's on my list of things to get.
Right now battery and truck method.
Only lived here one year. Still chipping away

 

[rmarion]

StuartPalley on Instagram: "McDonald's in Altadena last night. 😁#eatonfire. Utter chaos with trees down, no roadblocks as LE was busy saving people with fire crews. Buildings on fire all over. Hospital gurneys rolling down the street in 80mph gusts.

287K likes, 9,086 comments - stuartpalley on January 8, 2025: "McDonald's in Altadena last night. 😁#eatonfire. Utter chaos with trees down, no roadblocks as LE was busy saving people with fire crews. Buildings on fire all over. Hospital gurneys rolling down the street in 80mph gusts. There was a...

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[JB in so cal]

I have a few. We also now have water lines around house. They are piped and pre pressure reg. So around 100psi. Next project is rain birds around 3 sides direct to incoming city water.
Prob gonna expedite that little project

House is on battery.
New truck is powerboost with the big generator option.

With all that I'm still notvas prepped as I will be

Prepping homo!

 

[riverroyal]

Damn right. My fire insurance has me shitting my pants.
I could rebuilt if it came to that. But the frustration dealing with insurance would likely give me a stroke.

I'm that guy that is staying during a evacuation so I don't need to deal with the insurance crap. I'm not that guy that is 'oh the memories' and try and save this place.

Plus i know how to put pipe together

 

[ChumpChange]

Plus i know how to put pipe together

lol

 

[JB in so cal]

Damn right. My fire insurance has me shitting my pants.
I could rebuilt if it came to that. But the frustration dealing with insurance would likely give me a stroke.

I'm that guy that is staying during a evacuation so I don't need to deal with the insurance crap. I'm not that guy that is 'oh the memories' and try and save this place.

Plus i know how to put pipe together

Waiting on your next threads about drying out apricots and jerky, how to load your own ammo, and look I make my own sunblock.

 

[JL95]

Tell your sister to pay that wall replacement out of pocket for sure

 

[4Waters]

Tell your sister to pay that wall replacement out of pocket for sure

^^^This^^^

 

[4Waters]

Our equipment operator is in the area of this fire, we haven't heard from him today

Update, all is good

 

[Morehart]

Update, all is good

Your yard looks like it's right at the bridge of Angeles national golf course?

 

[Justsomeguy]

Tell your sister to pay that wall replacement out of pocket for sure

Ha, that's assuming they ever listen to me, but I agree.