carrman
Senior Member
I'm alive, and safe. So is the Chrysler. We had a fire, the Almeda
Fire, rip through the southern end of the valley and charge north.
Two towns, Talent and Phoenix, were nearly erased from the map. Yeah,
the same Talent where Microtrain's resides. They came through
unscathed, but some employees have lost everything. The fire came
within 5 miles from my work, pushed along with 40mph winds. A local
TV station has a camera on top of the retirement home structure which
is higher than any other point in the valley, and after dark when the
camera was pointed toward Phoenix and Talent, it looked like Dresden,
Germany in 1944 after an Allied bombing raid. The pyres in the
distances were the 800-1000 homes and apartments, or numerous
businesses burning to the ground. At one point listening to the
scanner, a task force leader proclaimed "we're writing off San George
and Glenwood Mobile Estates, we'll make our stand at South Stage Rd."
The fire didn't get past South Stage, and San George still stands.
Another fire popped up on the north end of Medford, this one nearly
getting into the RR park, they were calling for immediate evacuations,
I thought the park and clubhouse would be lost, but Medford Fire beat
it back. This was all Tuesday and Tuesday night. Yesterday
afternoon, another fire right near where the north Medford fire was
took off and began charging toward Central Point. Hotels, a Pilot
Truck Stop and Costco all were immediately evacuated as it took off.
As it parallelled the freeway, it was closed as DC-10 retardant
bombers made drops across the freeway to impede the fire. Once again,
the fire department won, with no structures lost and stopped it just
as it was entering the property at a Holiday Inn Express. One of my
coworkers lost everything, another thought he had but found his
trailer still standing, kinda warped and melted but the contents
inside intact, even having his fridge still working with cold beer and
frozen steaks. Another coworkers house somehow survived, but his
fathers house, and his brothers house a block over are gone. We
already had a very tight housing situation here, this just made it
leagues worse than it was. Today, we're choking on smoke and ash from
the fires that burn in the mountains around us, with more evacuations
in place as the towns of O' Brien, Cave Junction, and Shady Cove are
in imminent peril. We all hope the forecast for rain next week comes
true. I leave you a link to a helicopter flight to video the damage.
Fire, rip through the southern end of the valley and charge north.
Two towns, Talent and Phoenix, were nearly erased from the map. Yeah,
the same Talent where Microtrain's resides. They came through
unscathed, but some employees have lost everything. The fire came
within 5 miles from my work, pushed along with 40mph winds. A local
TV station has a camera on top of the retirement home structure which
is higher than any other point in the valley, and after dark when the
camera was pointed toward Phoenix and Talent, it looked like Dresden,
Germany in 1944 after an Allied bombing raid. The pyres in the
distances were the 800-1000 homes and apartments, or numerous
businesses burning to the ground. At one point listening to the
scanner, a task force leader proclaimed "we're writing off San George
and Glenwood Mobile Estates, we'll make our stand at South Stage Rd."
The fire didn't get past South Stage, and San George still stands.
Another fire popped up on the north end of Medford, this one nearly
getting into the RR park, they were calling for immediate evacuations,
I thought the park and clubhouse would be lost, but Medford Fire beat
it back. This was all Tuesday and Tuesday night. Yesterday
afternoon, another fire right near where the north Medford fire was
took off and began charging toward Central Point. Hotels, a Pilot
Truck Stop and Costco all were immediately evacuated as it took off.
As it parallelled the freeway, it was closed as DC-10 retardant
bombers made drops across the freeway to impede the fire. Once again,
the fire department won, with no structures lost and stopped it just
as it was entering the property at a Holiday Inn Express. One of my
coworkers lost everything, another thought he had but found his
trailer still standing, kinda warped and melted but the contents
inside intact, even having his fridge still working with cold beer and
frozen steaks. Another coworkers house somehow survived, but his
fathers house, and his brothers house a block over are gone. We
already had a very tight housing situation here, this just made it
leagues worse than it was. Today, we're choking on smoke and ash from
the fires that burn in the mountains around us, with more evacuations
in place as the towns of O' Brien, Cave Junction, and Shady Cove are
in imminent peril. We all hope the forecast for rain next week comes
true. I leave you a link to a helicopter flight to video the damage.
Sitting here in Michigan wondering when the family in California is moving back.
