Los Angeles Brush Fire 1/7/25

CFDMarshal said:
They have been closing companies since 2008. Task Force houses cut to engine company only or Light Force only. Systematic reduction of service while the volume of calls for service increase.
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Right. That's what I was referring to. On paper when they say ohh the FD budget is higher now then before, but in reality its not.
 
Again these arnt official numbers, just my analysis from viewing various maps that may have varying accuracy.

LACFD Stations 11, 12, 66, 67, 70, 76
LACFD Camp #2, #8
LAFD Station 23, 69, 19
Sierra Made Fire Dept

Bold is what is within the fire area.
Non-Bold is JUST outside what is reported to be the burnt area.
 
RCL said:
1 of the 2 super scoopers was grounded.


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This was "Quebec 1" I believe.
 
Some video from a M/A unit

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Eaton Fire As of 4AM Sat Jan 11:

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Between these two fires, that's 854 engine companies and 6544 personnel assigned. And there are four other fires burning in the area.
 
The following is a picture of a California fire fighter, presumably from the LAFD, but maybe from a mutual aid jurisdicction.

Am I wrong or does it seem that the turnout gear, particularly the jacket, he is wearing is very lightweight compared to the turnout gear typically seen in the East ? I wonder if they need to switch turnout gear depending on whether they respond to a structural fire or a brush fire.
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jlab said:
The following is a picture of a California fire fighter, presumably from the LAFD, but maybe from a mutual aid jurisdicction.

Am I wrong or does it seem that the turnout gear, particularly the jacket, he is wearing is very lightweight compared to the turnout gear typically seen in the East ? I wonder if they need to switch turnout gear depending on whether they respond to a structural fire or a brush fire.
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They wear a lighter weight brush fire gear when fighting outside fires. They have different gear for structural firefighting.
 
jlab said:
The following is a picture of a California fire fighter, presumably from the LAFD, but maybe from a mutual aid jurisdicction.

Am I wrong or does it seem that the turnout gear, particularly the jacket, he is wearing is very lightweight compared to the turnout gear typically seen in the East ? I wonder if they need to switch turnout gear depending on whether they respond to a structural fire or a brush fire.
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I worked in Fl, and had 2 sets of gear. 1 structural set and a brush set. The brush set is more of a light jacket and pants made out of like nomex or similar. Very similar to what they are wearing in the picture.
 
I've done several ride along's with LA City in the past, 1990's to 2000, and they wear the brush jackets a lot. They issued me a brush jackets when rode with them but I also had my structural gear. For the most part, they are hitting it hard from the yard on most of these incidents. Once it over-exposes the structure they move to a defendable position. Hoped that helped JLaB
 
scarter said:
I worked into LA last night. Tremendously windy going into land and this pic was about 10 minutes from LAX showing how close the fire was to the neighborhoods.
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Above posted in reply # 40.

Thank you "scarter", aka Stuie
A firefighter I worked with for many years, now a retired B/C working with Jet Blue Airlines.
 
Sadly, the Death Toll has been raised to 16 as of last night, according to the County Corner. The Lidia Fire has been fully contained, along with the Archer Fire. The Hurst Fire is 76% contained, while the Kenneth Fire is around 80%. It is believed that the Palisades and Eaton Fires we're not intentionally set. The origin point of the Palisades Fire is practically in the middle of nowhere. And the origin of the Eaton fire being directly under power lines.
 
raybrag said:
Eaton Fire As of 4AM Sat Jan 11:

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Between these two fires, that's 854 engine companies and 6544 personnel assigned. And there are four other fires burning in the area.
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Listening to V-1, it appears they are giving the co-ordinates for the water and retardent drops. I guess if you have the correct type of map you can follow along. CNN was showing C-130 drops, that must be a rush, flying that low in the valleys.
 
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Listening to V-1, it appears they are giving the co-ordinates for the water and retardent drops. I guess if you have the correct type of map you can follow along. CNN was showing C-130 drops, that must be a rush, flying that low in the valleys.
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Granted, we weren't dealing with fires, but one of the biggest rushes I've ever had was flying the "Christmas Drop" with the 54th WRS out of Guam. Every year we would start in August collecting donations of clothing, routine household goods, toys, etc. for distribution by the drop. In late November we'd pack all of these goods in large cardboard boxes . . . something like 3 x 5 feet and 3 feet tall, then mount those boxes on pallets that had been removed from service for one reason or another, but were still serviceable. Then we would fly them out to some of the smaller islands in the tropical Pacific, and drop them for the residents who had essentially no routine availability of goods. The islanders always knew when we were coming, and turned out in droves to get the goods. We'd fly in at 100' AGL and drop along the coast . . . usually a few feet into the water. Biggest problem we had was being certain we didn't hit any of the people, because the minute the people saw where we were setting up the run for the drop, they'd charge in to be first at the box. I'm on the far right in the crew picture. It was many, many moons ago. I flew on the drops in 1969 and 1970.
 

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I've always said the Fire Dept. is like an insurance policy that you have to have but don't like to take advantage of. So they cut back and are paying the price to some degree now. It seems like when cutbacks hit usually the FD goes first, and in FDNY it's the Fire Marshals that go first, then closing houses. A lot of us have been there in the layoffs back in the mid 70's, not me though.
 
raybrag said:
Granted, we weren't dealing with fires, but one of the biggest rushes I've ever had was flying the "Christmas Drop" with the 54th WRS out of Guam. Every year we would start in August collecting donations of clothing, routine household goods, toys, etc. for distribution by the drop. In late November we'd pack all of these goods in large cardboard boxes . . . something like 3 x 5 feet and 3 feet tall, then mount those boxes on pallets that had been removed from service for one reason or another, but were still serviceable. Then we would fly them out to some of the smaller islands in the tropical Pacific, and drop them for the residents who had essentially no routine availability of goods. The islanders always knew when we were coming, and turned out in droves to get the goods. We'd fly in at 100' AGL and drop along the coast . . . usually a few feet into the water. Biggest problem we had was being certain we didn't hit any of the people, because the minute the people saw where we were setting up the run for the drop, they'd charge in to be first at the box. I'm on the far right in the crew picture. It was many, many moons ago. I flew on the drops in 1969 and 1970.
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Yup a little different than making a run under fire @ Khe Sahn or An Loc!
 
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