Rich Grise wrote:
Just wondering if the Sylmar fire
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...-fire-mov.html
has hit the nat'l or internat'l n00z. Out here in LA county, it's
currently showing live on channels 2, 4, 5, 7, and 11, and has been
since about 3 AM that I know of.

So, since there's nothing but the fire on TV, I decided to annoy
the newsgroup. ;-)

I've seen it on local & network news here in Milwaukee.

Karma can be a bitch, aina?

David

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:57:22 -0600, "David R.Birch"
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
Just wondering if the Sylmar fire
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...-fire-mov.html
has hit the nat'l or internat'l n00z. Out here in LA county, it's
currently showing live on channels 2, 4, 5, 7, and 11, and has been
since about 3 AM that I know of.

So, since there's nothing but the fire on TV, I decided to annoy
the newsgroup. ;-)

I've seen it on local & network news here in Milwaukee.

Karma can be a bitch, aina?

And the best part is, they announced the wind event almost a week
ago, gave the firebugs lots of time to plan and plot...

And when they are started accidentally it's by stupid people.
Perris CA a couple years ago, Road crew out cutting bolt holes in
steel guardrail with an O/A cutting torch in 50 MPH winds - and they
lit the brush by the road without anything to put it out. By the time
the Fire Department got there...

If you are working outdoors with power equipment or tools you should
ALWAYS have an extinguisher or a hose (or both) readily available.

It might look silly to have an extinguisher mounted on a little
riding mower - right up till the moment you need it.

-- Bruce --

Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

If you are working outdoors with power equipment or tools you should
ALWAYS have an extinguisher or a hose (or both) readily available.

It might look silly to have an extinguisher mounted on a little
riding mower - right up till the moment you need it.


I always thought some fire warnings were BS until I lit up the dead grass under the live
stuff one day. I was one stomping, shoveling, dumping the emergincy water jugs and
finally getting a garden hose going guy. I p*ss*ed on the last bit, it was the plastic
wheel to my BBQ. Didn't notice it was still going.

Fire is pretty until you lose control of it, then it is one scary sumbitch. I'm very
careful now. A teachable moment and I think I learned.

Wes

--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

"Wes" wrote in message
...
Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

If you are working outdoors with power equipment or tools you should
ALWAYS have an extinguisher or a hose (or both) readily available.

It might look silly to have an extinguisher mounted on a little
riding mower - right up till the moment you need it.


I always thought some fire warnings were BS until I lit up the dead grass
under the live
stuff one day. I was one stomping, shoveling, dumping the emergincy water
jugs and
finally getting a garden hose going guy. I p*ss*ed on the last bit, it
was the plastic
wheel to my BBQ. Didn't notice it was still going.

Fire is pretty until you lose control of it, then it is one scary
sumbitch. I'm very
careful now. A teachable moment and I think I learned.

Wes

--



Wes, That one really brought back memories of my reckless, wasted youth. I
was in a 30-acre junkyard west of Baltimore, taking a front end off a '55
Chev with the smoke-wrench. Of course, it had rained the evening before, and
so the surround was all damp and "certainly can not burn". But the dry dead
stuff under the car went up in an astounding manner. I ran like hell to the
office for the extinguisher, but by the time I got back to address the issue
for myself, the local VFD had come in, and settled it all.. I had to pay for
the entire car, as well as another front end, which I had to have the yard
take off another car. Funny, how they made me feel unwelcome there for the
longest while, except as a cash customer, of course.

Expensive - - sure enough ! Embarassing? Yes!
Edcuational - worth every penny, and I had almost forgotten how much fun
until you posted the above.


Flash

In article ,
Wes wrote:

Fire is pretty until you lose control of it, then it is one scary sumbitch.
I'm very
careful now. A teachable moment and I think I learned.

George Washington compared government to fire; it makes a treacherous
servant and fearful master

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