Paradise Fire: A friend's brother lives in Paradise, CA. They saw the flames in the distance, ran from the house, and two hours later, there was nothing left. He said that people had...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A friend's brother lives in Paradise, CA. They saw the flames in the distance, ran from the house, and two hours later, there was nothing left. He said that people had called the power company to report sparking from their power lines. They ignored the calls. Whether that's fact or rumor, I don't know.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Probably (from experience) there wasn't too much the power company could do.

Bazbo Loc: Lisboa, Portugal

Longshadow wrote:

Probably (from experience) there wasn't too much the power company could do.

Cause and effect are not clear at this point. Did the fire cause the downed power lines or the other way around?

In the massive fires a year ago, PG&E lines were found to be the original cause. PG&E has instituted power outages for areas in extreme fire danger to prevent what happened a year ago. As for this years's fires? I am sure we will know in due course.

But things did happen fast and that caused a lot of things to go wrong, including evacuation.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

jerryc41 wrote:

A friend's brother lives in Paradise, CA. They saw the flames in the distance, ran from the house, and two hours later, there was nothing left. He said that people had called the power company to report sparking from their power lines. They ignored the calls. Whether that's fact or rumor, I don't know.

This is a great tragedy. The worst in California history. 27,000 homeless and 45 dead so far, and 200 still missing ... This was a beautiful old town. We need to pray for these people and the few that have offered their homes as temporary housing...

Some ways to donate.....

Red Cross: Monetary donations can bae made to the American Red Cross by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

United Way of Northern California: United Way established a NorCal Disaster Relief Fund to help victims. To make a donation, text BUTTEFIRE to 91999.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

The organization that I support is the Salvation Army. They provide emergency relief in situations like this and have set up a site for the California fire victims LINK.

When our home town was hit by tornado's, they were first on scene with truck loads of household goods/clothing to give out to folks that lost their belongings. They provided hot meals 3 times a day for the clean up effort and were a god-send to the folks. #1 in my book.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

jerryc41 wrote:

A friend's brother lives in Paradise, CA. They saw the flames in the distance, ran from the house, and two hours later, there was nothing left. He said that people had called the power company to report sparking from their power lines. They ignored the calls. Whether that's fact or rumor, I don't know.

I just heard on the news on a San Francisco station that PG&E stock has dropped by about 50% since the Camp Fire started. Down to $22 currently from $48 on Nov 8.

Chris F. Loc: San Francisco

Here in San Francisco, the sky has been shrouded by thick smoke for many days. Certainly the folks in the Chico and Paradise area have much bigger problems. Sad.

Chris

HardwareGuy

An friend of mine who lives in Chico told me that there hundreds more homeless wandering around town, tent cities in parking lots, and smoke, smoke, smoke.
Sounds absolutely awful.
As frankraney stated, these people need our prayers...and financial support.

gunner369 Loc: NV

Here are photo's of my Nieces house in Paradise,before and after. They got out safe, loaded 3 cars with belongings and lucky her Mother lived in Redding so they had a place to go to, but are now looking to rent a home in Chico, Ca

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nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

I heard that on the news too, of course it doesn't mean it's true. The situation is sad indeed. I used to live in CA for a few years. Those fires can advance at over 50MPH when the winds are strong and you cannot outrun them.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Shellback wrote:

The organization that I support is the Salvation A... (show quote)

Quite right about The Salvation Army. Also Catholic Charities. I remember how the Red Cross handled the massive amounts of money given to them after 9/11. I would never them penny one.

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traderjohn wrote:

Quite right about The Salvation Army. Also Catholic Charities. I remember how the Red Cross handled the massive amounts of money given to them after 9/11. I would never them penny one.

Hear hear.
My two favorites Salvation Army and USO

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

frankraney wrote:

This is a great tragedy. The worst in California h... (show quote)

I suggest we donate to getting better management.
Read "Biography of a Small Mountain" and see how forests were prior to idiots fighting every little fire that came along. It is a great management book for natural management of forests etc.

rayclay Loc: Arab, AL., USA

The one's that follow disasters for clean-up effort tell me Red Cross shows up, puts up big tent, coffee and doughnuts, TV media filming. Make on camera plea for money.Take down tent and leave, Salvation Army is there from beginning to end. No media, just hard working caring folks.

SonyBug

If you donate to the Red Cross for a certain purpose, they will not use it for that. They say they have to have reserves for other disasters, so they bank some of the money and not use it for the purpose designated. Of course I don't want to start on excessive salaries for the leaders. No Red Cross for me. I agree with the S Army, USO, Catholic Charities.