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**southwestforests** · #1 12-07-2017, 08:34 PM

Amtrak and wildfire.
Whoa, what else can ya say.

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"Tip-toeing toward the MP 387.9 grade crossing, with an XH to have its train's conductor come out and flag due to power outages, Amtrak 769 crawls through Faira Beach as the front of the Thomas Fire eats the dry vegetation above US 101 in the background. "

RailPictures.Net Photo: AMTK 454 Amtrak EMD F59PHI at Faria Beach, California by Alex Gillman

**KCinKC46** · #2 12-08-2017, 10:39 AM

That's a pretty picture! I hope your house is not in the path of the fire.

**Wad Cutter** · #3 12-08-2017, 12:03 PM

My state on fire again. First it was in the north and so the south had to have there's. Bigger and more worst. Not a Merry Christmas for a lot of people. So very sad. wc

**Vermin_King** · #4 12-08-2017, 12:32 PM

One of the fires is about a mile from one of my sometime girlfriend's sons and his family. He's being transferred to San Antonio on the 17th and wishing this had held off just a bit longer. No power for almost two days. Not being evacuated yet, but told to be ready

I'd have thought that if it is one mile away, I'd be out of there regardless of whether there was an evacuation order or not

**southwestforests** · #5 12-08-2017, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by KCinKC46

I hope your house is not in the path of the fire.

Thanks. As it happens though I was born and lived the first some years of my life in San Diego County I now live in a midwestern riverbank burg. And not that dramatically far from Vermin King.
(Howdy kinda sorta in a way neighbor!)
And am concerned about those folks there too.
Now only have contact with the area via a few friends on the web.
Think on both the model rocketry forum and a garden railway forum there were members in the area of the large fires to the north earlier who had to evacuate.

Several days ago our area had an Elevated Fire Risk or similar warning from NWS for a couple days but it was not even on the scale compared to California.

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