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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I was so sad for the Grandfather that lost his wife and great grandchildern in the Carr fire, what a heartbreaking thing to happen when you are trying to get to them. |
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Location: OH. IO | Southtxponygirl - 2018-07-30 8:29 PM
I was so sad for the Grandfather that lost his wife and great grandchildern in the Carr fire, what a heartbreaking thing to happen when you are trying to get to them.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FLITASTIC - 2018-07-30 7:34 PM I’m about 20 miles from the Idywild one but they have it pretty much contained. The CARR fire in northern CA is super bad. This place is always on fire!
Looks like all of California is going to burn up, and they were saying on the news that this is not even the peak season for the fires yet, I was thinking holy moly how much more of a peak season can it get!! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | jake16 - 2018-07-30 7:38 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-07-30 8:29 PM I was so sad for the Grandfather that lost his wife and great grandchildern in the Carr fire, what a heartbreaking thing to happen when you are trying to get to them. oh that's horrible: ( ( (I didn't see that,very heart breaking
It was and the grandfather was on the phone the whole time with his 6 year old grandson, while he was trying to get to them, I think he was 6 {just a little boy}. Just horrible. |
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Location: OH. IO | Southtxponygirl - 2018-07-30 9:22 PM
jake16 - 2018-07-30 7:38 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-07-30 8:29 PM I was so sad for the Grandfather that lost his wife and great grandchildern in the Carr fire, what a heartbreaking thing to happen when you are trying to get to them. oh that's horrible: ( ( (I didn't see that,very heart breaking
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | winwillows - 2018-07-30 9:27 PM We are sending a load of hay to Redding. Lots of evacuated horses and other livestock up there. W
Is Redding even a safe place to be? Saw pictures of that area and oh my gosh, looked really sacry.. Heres one I saw of water being dump on a ridge near Redding..
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I was so sad for the Grandfather that lost his wife and great grandchildern in the Carr fire, what a heartbreaking thing to happen when you are trying to get to them.
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Location: Kansas | Not to derail the thread, but if you haven't seen Only the Brave, in their honor you need to. Prepare though to have your heart broken.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Frodo - 2018-07-31 8:14 AM Not to derail the thread, but if you haven't seen Only the Brave, in their honor you need to. Prepare though to have your heart broken.
Not derailing this thread at all, I havent seen Only The Brave but have heard its a very well made true story {movie} in honor of the firefighters that lost their lives. They were the firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots that lost their lives in the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona on June 30, 2013. Fire fighters sure are a special group of men and women, not a life for everyone.
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Location: Willows, CA | bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 10:38 AM
We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
Most of these areas are brush covered hills with scattered oaks. They burn like gasoline. Years ago the state did a lot of control burning in the winter. They don’t do that much anymore. I think animals are being evacuated to Cottonwood and Red Bluff. We are checking to send hay where it is best needed. Between that fire, and the ones near Clear Lake there is a lot of help needed. |
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Location: OH. IO | winwillows - 2018-07-31 12:56 PM
bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 10:38 AM
We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
Most of these areas are brush covered hills with scattered oaks. They burn like gasoline. Years ago the state did a lot of control burning in the winter. They don’t do that much anymore. I think animals are being evacuated to Cottonwood and Red Bluff. We are checking to send hay where it is best needed. Between that fire, and the ones near Clear Lake there is a lot of help needed.
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Location: Willows, CA | jake16 - 2018-07-31 12:13 PM
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bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 10:38 AM
We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
Most of these areas are brush covered hills with scattered oaks. They burn like gasoline. Years ago the state did a lot of control burning in the winter. They don’t do that much anymore. I think animals are being evacuated to Cottonwood and Red Bluff. We are checking to send hay where it is best needed. Between that fire, and the ones near Clear Lake there is a lot of help needed.
THANK YOU for all you do to help the horses ,we need more people like you.
There are a lot of good folks helping in Northern CA. Those who volunteer their time to care for evacuated animals are the real heroes. I am always impressed by how many people step up to spend day and night caring for animals owned by people that they don’t even know. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 11:38 AM We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
My SIL is one of the heads at Yellowstone and she does (when she can) burning. The people back "East" won't let them burn like they want to. It is another group of "do gooders" who think it should be left "wild" and not hurt the "animals, flora, etc". The lobbyist are huge to stop burning. So many lives and animals could be saved if they let them do prescribed burning.
She also fights fire. She and her friends are brave people. I can't imagine the devastation that that she has seen.
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Thankfully the wind is coming out of the south the last couple of days and bringing some much needed humidity with it which is helping fire fighters on the CARR fire get some containment. The one blessing that has come from this is the way this community and surrounding counties have come together, people with very little have pitched in to help move animals. One woman pulled up the other night at the Tehama District Fairgrounds with a car load of buckets, she bought everything the local TSC had, pulled them out and wrote her name on the larger ones saying "if I could get these back that would be great but if not I hope they are needed." I was so thankful for those big buckets as we had a Clydesdale in one of the stalls with 2 very small buckets he could barely fit his muzzle into. All the volunteers were constantly walking by his stall to see if the little buckets needed topped off. Another young woman with 2 toddlers spent Saturday night till 3 am helping haul animals out of the evacuation zones, she rarely gets to go to shows and races herself but there she was helping others. So many people pitching in and if they can't get there physically to help, keeping an eye out on social media for help needed posts and relaying them to sites that are able to get there. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | run n rate - 2018-07-31 1:23 PM Thankfully the wind is coming out of the south the last couple of days and bringing some much needed humidity with it which is helping fire fighters on the CARR fire get some containment. The one blessing that has come from this is the way this community and surrounding counties have come together, people with very little have pitched in to help move animals. One woman pulled up the other night at the Tehama District Fairgrounds with a car load of buckets, she bought everything the local TSC had, pulled them out and wrote her name on the larger ones saying "if I could get these back that would be great but if not I hope they are needed." I was so thankful for those big buckets as we had a Clydesdale in one of the stalls with 2 very small buckets he could barely fit his muzzle into. All the volunteers were constantly walking by his stall to see if the little buckets needed topped off. Another young woman with 2 toddlers spent Saturday night till 3 am helping haul animals out of the evacuation zones, she rarely gets to go to shows and races herself but there she was helping others. So many people pitching in and if they can't get there physically to help, keeping an eye out on social media for help needed posts and relaying them to sites that are able to get there.
Your awesome for the volunteer work you are doing to help out these horses and livestock and their owners  .. Volunteers are soooo special too and their help is so thankfull and appreciated .. How far are you from these fires, you sound like your really close to the Carr fire. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | winwillows - 2018-07-31 12:27 PM jake16 - 2018-07-31 12:13 PM winwillows - 2018-07-31 12:56 PM bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 10:38 AM We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
Most of these areas are brush covered hills with scattered oaks. They burn like gasoline. Years ago the state did a lot of control burning in the winter. They don’t do that much anymore. I think animals are being evacuated to Cottonwood and Red Bluff. We are checking to send hay where it is best needed. Between that fire, and the ones near Clear Lake there is a lot of help needed. THANK YOU for all you do to help the horses ,we need more people like you. There are a lot of good folks helping in Northern CA. Those who volunteer their time to care for evacuated animals are the real heroes. I am always impressed by how many people step up to spend day and night caring for animals owned by people that they don’t even know.
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Location: OH. IO | 3canstorun - 2018-07-31 1:35 PM
bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 11:38 AM We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
My SIL is one of the heads at Yellowstone and she does (when she can) burning. The people back "East" won't let them burn like they want to. It is another group of "do gooders" who think it should be left "wild" and not hurt the "animals, flora, etc". The lobbyist are huge to stop burning. So many lives and animals could be saved if they let them do prescribed burning.
She also fights fire. She and her friends are brave people. I can't imagine the devastation that that she has seen.
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Location: OH. IO | run n rate - 2018-07-31 2:23 PM
Thankfully the wind is coming out of the south the last couple of days and bringing some much needed humidity with it which is helping fire fighters on the CARR fire get some containment. The one blessing that has come from this is the way this community and surrounding counties have come together, people with very little have pitched in to help move animals. One woman pulled up the other night at the Tehama District Fairgrounds with a car load of buckets, she bought everything the local TSC had, pulled them out and wrote her name on the larger ones saying "if I could get these back that would be great but if not I hope they are needed." I was so thankful for those big buckets as we had a Clydesdale in one of the stalls with 2 very small buckets he could barely fit his muzzle into. All the volunteers were constantly walking by his stall to see if the little buckets needed topped off. Another young woman with 2 toddlers spent Saturday night till 3 am helping haul animals out of the evacuation zones, she rarely gets to go to shows and races herself but there she was helping others. So many people pitching in and if they can't get there physically to help, keeping an eye out on social media for help needed posts and relaying them to sites that are able to get there.
Thank you for being you!!!im sure your help and everyone else's is greatly appreciated!It sounds like a very difficult task,and im sure you are doing whatever you can:)))So many good people! |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | We are south of Redding about 30 miles though the southern edge of the fire has creeped a little close for complete comfort. I know people in Redding last week about this time never dreamed that this fire would get to them. Fire does what Fire wants. The way everyone has pulled together has been a thing of beauty, everyone pitching in where and how they can. Its going to be a long process and there is another big fire south of us about 1.5 hours, I know the people that were doing transports of animals up here are splitting duties now. |
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Location: Arkansas | Frodo - 2018-07-31 8:14 AM
Not to derail the thread, but if you haven't seen Only the Brave, in their honor you need to. Prepare though to have your heart broken.
Yep, I squalled. So sad. God bless these firefighters and all the people on the frontlines.
To Mr Win and RNR---bless you for your service and effort for these animals and their owners. I can only imagine how much better I would feel if I had to leave one of my kids and had the assurance that people like y'all were there for them. It would let me concentrate on other things with peace of mind. Good folks are still in our midst. . . .
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Location: Oklahoma | My friend just got home from 17 days on the Ferguson fire (Yosemite). I just got home from Lake Tahoe and it was smokey from both the Redding and Yosemite fires. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | The Carr fire is starting to get containment but still praying for those in the Lewiston area especially.
Also, thought this was a very touching photo taken down in Lake County...to me this is what it means to be a pet owner. She had a car but it had a flat tire so loaded up what she could in a wheelbarrow and got her dog.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My gosh PLEASE pray for all the brave men and women fighting this fire that has grown, Prayers for these firefighters they really need it |
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Location: Kansas | I understand firefighters from Australia and New Zealand are assisting. There should be more help from the countries we're so willing to help when they have disasters like this.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I know firefighters from San Antiono and my area and from other surrounding towns are going to help so they can give the firefighters a break that have been fighting these fires non stop. But now since these fires have merge together these fire fighters will hardly get any breaks..And it would be nice if other countrys would/did pitch in, sure do need all the help that they can get. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Frodo - 2018-08-08 6:05 AM I understand firefighters from Australia and New Zealand are assisting. There should be more help from the countries we're so willing to help when they have disasters like this.
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Location: Broxton, Ga | 3canstorun - 2018-07-30 1:35 PM
bscanchaser - 2018-07-31 11:38 AM We haven’t seen blue sky in days due to the smoke. These fires are completely devastating. I keep praying that someone in a position of power will start to ask why there is so much fuel being allowed to remain on public lands when we could be utilizing the trees and vegetation. We need to increase grazing numbers and harvesting timber so these fires don’t run out of control. Life lost and millions of acres blackened is not ok and it’s not working. We can do better at managing the land than allowing everything to burn.
My SIL is one of the heads at Yellowstone and she does (when she can) burning. The people back "East" won't let them burn like they want to. It is another group of "do gooders" who think it should be left "wild" and not hurt the "animals, flora, etc". The lobbyist are huge to stop burning. So many lives and animals could be saved if they let them do prescribed burning.
She also fights fire. She and her friends are brave people. I can't imagine the devastation that that she has seen.
From what I heard this week on the fires was when California has a wet winter or spring...one or the other then you have abundance of growth.......and over the years that builds up...and burning is not allowed.....got to protect that owl or bird js....dry spell comes along.....you have the recipe for what we are seeing...... and the main areas burning have not had a controlled burn in 40 years, then people move in...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | As the saying goes "log it, graze it, or watch it burn..." So sad what environmentalist have done in the name of keeping our environment clean and healthy. But at the same time we as a society have to take some responsibility too, we want solitude and we build our homes out away from others in places that are sometimes hard to get to, one little road leading in and out and sometimes we arent' very good about keeping a defensible space around that home. When you choose to live 45 minutes to an hour away from services you also have to realize that it is going to take that long if not more for help to arrive when the feces hits the cooling system. |
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Location: sunny california | run n rate - 2018-08-08 9:24 AM As the saying goes "log it, graze it, or watch it burn..." So sad what environmentalist have done in the name of keeping our environment clean and healthy. But at the same time we as a society have to take some responsibility too, we want solitude and we build our homes out away from others in places that are sometimes hard to get to, one little road leading in and out and sometimes we arent' very good about keeping a defensible space around that home. When you choose to live 45 minutes to an hour away from services you also have to realize that it is going to take that long if not more for help to arrive when the feces hits the cooling system.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Well now theres more fires that are killing and eating up homes, These fires are never ending. Sending more prayers, they sure do need them in California.. |
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| What’s really sad is that we have 8 SEAT’s (single engine air tankers) and pilots trained to utilize NVG’s- Night vision goggles and the State of California is not responding to our offer to go assist. Our aircraft can get into areas that the big tankers cannot. Also flying at night when the wind has settled and humidity is at a higher level is beneficial..... talk about frustrating- we can only sit and watch the devastation unfold and question why they are not utilizing resources available...
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| trump said it we are not managing the land u all have said the same thing to much lobbist and do gooders to much fuel it has to to be logged geazed or control burn if not hello mega
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Location: Kansas | My neice lost her home to forest fires in Colorado a few years ago. She too felt that forestry management would have saved trees and homes. It was the undergrowth and leaving dead trees she blamed.
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Location: Willows, CA | We hauled dog food to Chico yesterday for the rescue center at the CHICO airport. 700 dogs being cared for. The woman that was overseeing the project said “ I remember you from the fire at Santa Rosa last year. Those people are amazing with their time. Hay on it’s way to Gridley fairgrounds, with RG to follow for the horses being held there. We bought Tractor Supply out of halters. We help when we can, but the people who move in to care for the evacuated animals are saints. Prayers to all the fire victims. 6700 homes destroyed in one day.
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Location: Broxton, Ga | Frodo - 2018-11-11 12:58 PM
My neice lost her home to forest fires in Colorado a few years ago. She too felt that forestry management would have saved trees and homes. It was the undergrowth and leaving dead trees she blamed.
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Location: Kansas | CJE - 2018-11-12 12:22 PM Frodo - 2018-11-11 12:58 PM My neice lost her home to forest fires in Colorado a few years ago. She too felt that forestry management would have saved trees and homes. It was the undergrowth and leaving dead trees she blamed.
And the liberals don't want to hear that.........
Native Americans, as I understand it, did controlled burns to lessen the dangers of large fires. I Googled it but didn't have time to get very deep into it.
And yeah, liberals would rather blame global warming and of course Trump.
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We hauled dog food to Chico yesterday for the rescue center at the CHICO airport. 700 dogs being cared for. The woman that was overseeing the project said “ I remember you from the fire at Santa Rosa last year. Those people are amazing with their time. Hay on it’s way to Gridley fairgrounds, with RG to follow for the horses being held there. We bought Tractor Supply out of halters. We help when we can, but the people who move in to care for the evacuated animals are saints. Prayers to all the fire victims. 6700 homes destroyed in one day.
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Location: Kansas | James Woods, the conservative actor, has a Twitter feed, encouraging others in the entertainment industry to get off their duffs and help. He has a plethora of tweets making suggestions on how to help. There's a picture of a horse loose in the fire area wearing a halter. Being aware of the dangers of halters he asked that you not turn them loose wearing one as it could get caught on something. I agree completely.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Looks like to me they would have control fires to take care of the under brush. So there wont be any problems with all the dry brush.
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| Southtxponygirl - 2018-11-12 4:54 PM Looks like to me they would have control fires to take care of the under brush. So there wont be any problems with all the dry brush.
Befor winter I get all my pastures mowed down so there wont be any tall dry grass just in case a brush fire does break out behind my back pastures. Just makes sense to me.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | What kills me about this is how a serious examination of forest management is so overshadowed by this rabid Trump-blaming and hatred. You have to dig a little on google to find some decent, serious, non-political articles on this subject. Here’s one, although it isn’t real detailed.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | run n rate - 2018-07-31 1:23 PM
Thankfully the wind is coming out of the south the last couple of days and bringing some much needed humidity with it which is helping fire fighters on the CARR fire get some containment. The one blessing that has come from this is the way this community and surrounding counties have come together, people with very little have pitched in to help move animals. One woman pulled up the other night at the Tehama District Fairgrounds with a car load of buckets, she bought everything the local TSC had, pulled them out and wrote her name on the larger ones saying "if I could get these back that would be great but if not I hope they are needed." I was so thankful for those big buckets as we had a Clydesdale in one of the stalls with 2 very small buckets he could barely fit his muzzle into. All the volunteers were constantly walking by his stall to see if the little buckets needed topped off. Another young woman with 2 toddlers spent Saturday night till 3 am helping haul animals out of the evacuation zones, she rarely gets to go to shows and races herself but there she was helping others. So many people pitching in and if they can't get there physically to help, keeping an eye out on social media for help needed posts and relaying them to sites that are able to get there.
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Location: Arkansas | winwillows - 2018-11-12 12:22 PM
We hauled dog food to Chico yesterday for the rescue center at the CHICO airport. 700 dogs being cared for. The woman that was overseeing the project said “ I remember you from the fire at Santa Rosa last year. Those people are amazing with their time. Hay on it’s way to Gridley fairgrounds, with RG to follow for the horses being held there. We bought Tractor Supply out of halters. We help when we can, but the people who move in to care for the evacuated animals are saints. Prayers to all the fire victims. 6700 homes destroyed in one day.
God bless you and all the volunteers who are helping people and their 4 legged kids |
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| winwillows - 2018-11-12 12:22 PM We hauled dog food to Chico yesterday for the rescue center at the CHICO airport. 700 dogs being cared for. The woman that was overseeing the project said “ I remember you from the fire at Santa Rosa last year. Those people are amazing with their time. Hay on it’s way to Gridley fairgrounds, with RG to follow for the horses being held there. We bought Tractor Supply out of halters. We help when we can, but the people who move in to care for the evacuated animals are saints. Prayers to all the fire victims. 6700 homes destroyed in one day.
Please keep us posted on ground zero efforts during the fire. Thank you !
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Location: Oklahoma | My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them. |
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| TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM
My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them.
Prayers that they are found safe.
I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them.
Oh no, that is horrible I bet the family are thinking the worst right now, prayers that they find them safe and sound. There is so many people missing, so horrible for these familys going threw this prayers for them all |
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Location: Willows, CA | Gail - 2018-11-13 7:30 AM
winwillows - 2018-11-12 12:22 PM We hauled dog food to Chico yesterday for the rescue center at the CHICO airport. 700 dogs being cared for. The woman that was overseeing the project said “ I remember you from the fire at Santa Rosa last year. Those people are amazing with their time. Hay on it’s way to Gridley fairgrounds, with RG to follow for the horses being held there. We bought Tractor Supply out of halters. We help when we can, but the people who move in to care for the evacuated animals are saints. Prayers to all the fire victims. 6700 homes destroyed in one day.
Please keep us posted on ground zero efforts during the fire. Thank you ! Continued prayers.
There is so much need in different places that it is difficult to go where it is needed most. We are closed today and making a loop with RG and our dog food to Orland, Chico and Gridley. |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | My heart hurts for all those effected by these fires... it's just aweful to see... Prayers for rain over there!
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| cindyt - 2018-11-13 8:23 AM
My heart hurts for all those effected by these fires... it's just aweful to see... Prayers for rain over there!
Supposed to rain a few days next week. Its looking like the power company started it. Transformer blew and up it went. |
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Location: Oklahoma | streakysox - 2018-11-13 9:30 AM
TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM
My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them.
Prayers that they are found safe.
I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here
While I fully understand the wildlife and animals are suffering, deceased, injured, etc... there is so much more to this fire than that. Your comment seems to be putting wildlife and animal lives about people. How would you feel if you had family missing during a wildfire and you cannot find them? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TwistedK - 2018-11-13 11:47 AM streakysox - 2018-11-13 9:30 AM TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them. Prayers that they are found safe. I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here While I fully understand the wildlife and animals are suffering, deceased, injured, etc... there is so much more to this fire than that. Your comment seems to be putting wildlife and animal lives about people. How would you feel if you had family missing during a wildfire and you cannot find them?
If I ever had a family member missing I would be in panic mode, my sister in laws son went missing one time years ago and all I could think of was awful things that could have happen to him I was sacred to death for my sister and brother in law, but he showed up safe after a all night ordeal.. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Southtxponygirl - 2018-11-13 12:16 PM
TwistedK - 2018-11-13 11:47 AM streakysox - 2018-11-13 9:30 AM TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them. Prayers that they are found safe. I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here While I fully understand the wildlife and animals are suffering, deceased, injured, etc... there is so much more to this fire than that. Your comment seems to be putting wildlife and animal lives about people. How would you feel if you had family missing during a wildfire and you cannot find them?
They were found safe!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Willows, CA | I took my grandson with me to help unload dog food at the Chico airport. When we were done I thought that it was only fair to feed him, so we went down town to find lunch. Every eating place was full of people who had evacuated. Many just had a red cross blanket and the what they were wearing when they ran. One lady had pajamas on and a blanket. It is hard to imagine until you see it in person. We are headed back over with more feed in an hour or so. The hard part will be in a few weeks when some of the mass help dwindles away and these people and animals still need help. We have committed to a long term support schedule, and I know others have too. Northern California people are not what a lot of people think of when they think of this state. Big hearts and a lot of rural state of mind in this part of the state. We actually know our neighbors, and everyone that I know has a tie to someone who has lost everything in this tragedy. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | winwillows - 2018-11-13 12:38 PM I took my grandson with me to help unload dog food at the Chico airport. When we were done I thought that it was only fair to feed him, so we went down town to find lunch. Every eating place was full of people who had evacuated. Many just had a red cross blanket and the what they were wearing when they ran. One lady had pajamas on and a blanket. It is hard to imagine until you see it in person. We are headed back over with more feed in an hour or so. The hard part will be in a few weeks when some of the mass help dwindles away and these people and animals still need help. We have committed to a long term support schedule, and I know others have too. Northern California people are not what a lot of people think of when they think of this state. Big hearts and a lot of rural state of mind in this part of the state. We actually know our neighbors, and everyone that I know has a tie to someone who has lost everything in this tragedy.
This is just so horrible, the only bad things to happen here is the floods and hurricanes and they are horrible when you have family that gets caught up in them, you can kinda perpare for them at least, but a wildfire theres no perparing unless you can get a fire barrier done but thats not even a sure thing in most cases. Prayers |
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Location: Arkansas | TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM
My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them.
Prayers |
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Location: Arkansas | TwistedK - 2018-11-13 12:35 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2018-11-13 12:16 PM
TwistedK - 2018-11-13 11:47 AM streakysox - 2018-11-13 9:30 AM TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them. Prayers that they are found safe. I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here While I fully understand the wildlife and animals are suffering, deceased, injured, etc... there is so much more to this fire than that. Your comment seems to be putting wildlife and animal lives about people. How would you feel if you had family missing during a wildfire and you cannot find them?
They were found safe!!!!!!!!
Answered prayers |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TwistedK - 2018-11-13 12:35 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-11-13 12:16 PM TwistedK - 2018-11-13 11:47 AM streakysox - 2018-11-13 9:30 AM TwistedK - 2018-11-13 9:23 AM My SIL's 2nd cousin and spouse are missing. So, her family is exhausting all avenues right now trying to find them. Prayers that they are found safe. I know that people and home are the first concern but the wildlife suffers too. Big animal lover here While I fully understand the wildlife and animals are suffering, deceased, injured, etc... there is so much more to this fire than that. Your comment seems to be putting wildlife and animal lives about people. How would you feel if you had family missing during a wildfire and you cannot find them? They were found safe!!!!!!!!
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Location: Arkansas | winwillows - 2018-11-13 12:38 PM
I took my grandson with me to help unload dog food at the Chico airport. When we were done I thought that it was only fair to feed him, so we went down town to find lunch. Every eating place was full of people who had evacuated. Many just had a red cross blanket and the what they were wearing when they ran. One lady had pajamas on and a blanket. It is hard to imagine until you see it in person. We are headed back over with more feed in an hour or so. The hard part will be in a few weeks when some of the mass help dwindles away and these people and animals still need help. We have committed to a long term support schedule, and I know others have too. Northern California people are not what a lot of people think of when they think of this state. Big hearts and a lot of rural state of mind in this part of the state. We actually know our neighbors, and everyone that I know has a tie to someone who has lost everything in this tragedy.
I'm being repetitive, but again, you and your company and the other volunteers are certainly angels to these people and animals in need. God bless you sir. . . |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | 8000+ homes or structures of burnt. I keep thinking that the town I live in is around 14000 people, this would be like our entire town being leveled pretty much. Some of the stories are heartwarming , most will break your heart. The fire blew thru Paradise on Thursday the 8th, not a whole lot left, yet Monday morning town officials had purchased new flags, and put them on makeshift flag poles to line their main street like they do every Veterans Day. These people deserve everything we can humanly do to help restore some normalcy to thier lives. A garbage truck driver saved an 87 year old woman who had recently had back surgery, put her in his garage truck and made a slow 7 hour drive to get her to safety. Another man going door to door to check for survivors found a 90 some year old woman who had been staying in her home, no electricity, no running water, living on the food that was defrosting in her freezer, people who made several trips back and forth to get people out with fire literally surrounding them, one woman rode her horse as far as she could, a stranger loaded the horse up in a u-haul trailer to get the horse out for her.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | run n rate - 2018-11-15 1:56 PM 8000+ homes or structures of burnt. I keep thinking that the town I live in is around 14000 people, this would be like our entire town being leveled pretty much. Some of the stories are heartwarming , most will break your heart. The fire blew thru Paradise on Thursday the 8th, not a whole lot left, yet Monday morning town officials had purchased new flags, and put them on makeshift flag poles to line their main street like they do every Veterans Day. These people deserve everything we can humanly do to help restore some normalcy to thier lives. A garbage truck driver saved an 87 year old woman who had recently had back surgery, put her in his garage truck and made a slow 7 hour drive to get her to safety. Another man going door to door to check for survivors found a 90 some year old woman who had been staying in her home, no electricity, no running water, living on the food that was defrosting in her freezer, people who made several trips back and forth to get people out with fire literally surrounding them, one woman rode her horse as far as she could, a stranger loaded the horse up in a u-haul trailer to get the horse out for her. Prayers are needed as are the smallest donations
I think I heard that 47 has died that they know of so far and 120 still missing, so horrible..Prayers for the familys of the lost one's and the still missing.
I have heard that the whole town of Paradise is gone,, Just horrible |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Not the whole town but a very very large portion of it. 250+ businesses are gone on top of the homes lost. Like I said, it is a town of a lot of retirees so having services in town are crucial. We live about 70 miles from there, my fiance's mom had to evacuate but she is one of the lucky ones as her home is still standing.
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| There is a woman now wanting to sue the government because helecopters were refilling with water to fight the fires in malibu by filling out of the ocean. She is heartbroken for the countless marine lives lost when the helicopters invaded their habitat to take precious water without warning.   |
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Wow, that is just crazy  , what about the human lives that were lost, I guess she dont give a da* about them. |
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Location: Arkansas | run n rate - 2018-11-15 1:56 PM
8000+ homes or structures of burnt. I keep thinking that the town I live in is around 14000 people, this would be like our entire town being leveled pretty much. Some of the stories are heartwarming , most will break your heart. The fire blew thru Paradise on Thursday the 8th, not a whole lot left, yet Monday morning town officials had purchased new flags, and put them on makeshift flag poles to line their main street like they do every Veterans Day. These people deserve everything we can humanly do to help restore some normalcy to thier lives. A garbage truck driver saved an 87 year old woman who had recently had back surgery, put her in his garage truck and made a slow 7 hour drive to get her to safety. Another man going door to door to check for survivors found a 90 some year old woman who had been staying in her home, no electricity, no running water, living on the food that was defrosting in her freezer, people who made several trips back and forth to get people out with fire literally surrounding them, one woman rode her horse as far as she could, a stranger loaded the horse up in a u-haul trailer to get the horse out for her.
Prayers are needed as are the smallest donations
Heartbreaking
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Oh my Gosh those poor people, I watched a interview and most are living in tents with many others and they are calling it tent city, they dont have homes to go to are just cant get to their homes and not knowing if they do have homes to go home too, so heart breaking..
The death toll has gone up to 63 and more are missing and that number is really high.. Prayers |
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Location: Willows, CA | Remember, a lot of these people still have mortgage payments to make. It is raining now on those who are living in tents. Whatever you see on the television, this nightmare is many times worse than that. There is a safe fund to donate to at Tri Counties Bank. They are based in Chico CA and are moving donated funds to quality use. Sierra Nevada Brewery made 15,000 Thanksgiving day dinners for the evacuated families. If you are a beer drinker, you might give theirs a try. |
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| vjls - 2018-11-23 8:09 PM
are you f.... serious how stupid can she be
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| winwillows - 2018-11-23 5:17 PM
Remember, a lot of these people still have mortgage payments to make. It is raining now on those who are living in tents. Whatever you see on the television, this nightmare is many times worse than that. There is a safe fund to donate to at Tri Counties Bank. They are based in Chico CA and are moving donated funds to quality use. Sierra Nevada Brewery made 15,000 Thanksgiving day dinners for the evacuated families. If you are a beer drinker, you might give theirs a try.
Hopefully there is some sort of protection for the people who still have to pay mortgages and whatnot... I'm sure the insurance companies are inundated. I know if my home was burnt to the ground and I lost everything, living in a tent.. last thing I'd want to have to worry about is paying my bills. I'm praying for those poor folks going thru this. |
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