Wildfire jumps freeway
Highway 15.between Vegas and LA..this afternoon (Friday) wildfire jumped the Cajon Pass....no one injured my but man..scary...20 vehicles burned..two of them semi's. A good time to think....
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It was more than just stopping traffic. That was the big complaint from the news anchors until the eyewitness accounts came in that the fire was basically ON the freeway and people were running from their cars. It sounds like they stopped it where they could in the time they had to do it. Been through allot of fires, but nothing that literally burned across the freeway and anything on the road In its way.
Burning uphill is only a side benefit to this pass. It's ALWAYS windy, and can hit in excess of 100MPH during Santa Ana wind conditions. Thankfully that wasn't today. This is the same pass that makes national news to show fully loaded semi's and RV's blown over or completely off the freeway.
There's now another one burning in Wrightwood
Burning uphill is only a side benefit to this pass. It's ALWAYS windy, and can hit in excess of 100MPH during Santa Ana wind conditions. Thankfully that wasn't today. This is the same pass that makes national news to show fully loaded semi's and RV's blown over or completely off the freeway.
There's now another one burning in Wrightwood
