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Tim in Phoenix
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
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Location: Phoenix
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: OT; California Fires |
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Guys!
I wanted to say what many are thinking; may our Forum friends and all the folks in the affected areas take care and stay safe. This will not be pretty; the fire departments in the region are all but certain that hundreds of homes will probably be lost.
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Heywood Jablome
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Family friend is (was) an Engineer (retired) with the Malibu County department... "Engineer" in this context is a firefighter with a semi truck carrying a D9 dozer and an F350 4WD with a 300 yards reach napalm flamethrower.
Those boys know how to backburn!
That said... while I wish no person misfortune, I hope no "real" people are effected. I'm already weary of hearing how Jennifer Anniston might have a house burn or how the region looks from one of John Travoltas aircraft.
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"Those countries which lag behind in industry, in the application of mechanics and technical chemistry, in the careful selection and utilization of natural products, where the respect for such activities does not permeate all classes of society, will unfailingly decline in prosperity. They will sink faster when neighbor states, with an energetic exchange between science and industry, go forward with renewed vitality."
-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
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cmjohnson
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
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Location: Buried under G90s
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, as long as no people or top end CRT projectors get harmed, the rest is all trivial. Those are the IMPORTANT things, you know.
CJ
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