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Originally posted by AGDee
My best friend from high school lives in Irvine and works in Marina del Rey but isn't answering email... would the fires be preventing her from getting to work?
Info much appreciated!
Dee
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HI AGDee,
You're friend should be okay. She's probably just gotten really hit with smoke but nothing with the fires. If she's like a lot of us in So. Cal she's probably watching all the news about the fire and isn't answering her phone.
The news said last night that a CNN reporter almost got caught in the same area as the firefighters who died/were injured. She actually crashed in to a couple of cars trying to get away from it.
The good news is that they have the Simi Valley fire pretty much contained as of this morning but the way the fires are going who knows if that will continue to be the story by the time I get home from class.
Everyone keep praying (it might be working) - they are talking about an onshore flow coming on and providing a little drizzle here which has helped out with the Simi Valley fire. However the onshore flow has messed up the Old Fire up in the mountains (where everyone is evacuated) because of all the winds it's bringing. Everytime they think they've got an area beat and the area is safe the winds shift and the fire comes straight back to them and burns areas that were missed before.
So far 625,000 acres have burned among all the fires in So. Cal. To top it all off Simi Valley had a string of earthquakes the biggest being a 3.7 - not what they wanted to feel last night.
Carolyn