Natural Law Violations Cause Larger Forest Fires - (CA 1Yr) 14,728 Homes Destroyed/Damaged, 1.1 Million Acres Burned, 100 People Hospitalized, 40 Dead, 200 Missing - How To Deal With Aftermath - Maps Of Forest Fires - How To Create Forest Fire Or Natural Disaster Emergency Kit
AS GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE CONSEQUENCES GROW, DISASTERS LIKE FOREST FIRES GROW LARGER, AND GET WORSE
Due to violations of Natural Laws, forest fires are growing larger and more destructive.
RECORD LOSS OF GLOBAL TREE COVER IN 2016, DRIVEN BY FOREST FIRES
The record loss of global tree cover in 2016 — totaling around 297,000 square kilometers (114,672 square miles) and representing a rise of 51% on 2015 — was driven partly by increasingly common wildfires driven by rising temperatures and drought, according to the Global Forest Watch (GFW) which utilized data provided by the University of Maryland.
“We saw quite a dramatic spike in 2016,” stated Mikaela Weisse, a research analyst at the US think-tank World Resources Institute, which oversees GFW. “That seems to be related to forest fires in countries including Brazil, Indonesia and Portugal.”
THE LATEST: 40 NOW DEAD FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
California Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein say they have never seen a more destructive and deadly wildfire in their lifetime.
The comments from the longtime Californians come as they, along with U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, visit the fire zones on Saturday to meet with emergency responders and local residents.
Brown called the disaster “one of the greatest tragedies California has ever faced.” He told residents the danger remains and urged them to evacuate when asked to do so.
via The Mercury News The Latest on California’s wildfires
NATURAL DISASTERS LIKE TORNADOES, HURRICANES AND FOREST FIRES ARE GETTING WORSE, MORE FREQUENT AND LARGER, PLUS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE, EVENTUALLY THEY WILL BANKRUPT ENTIRE NATIONS, CITIES AND STATES
“How can you not” notice it, Cutter said. “The public sees the connection because they see it happening to their neighbors, themselves. They see it on television. And they’re not responding to a particular political constituency.”
Cutter and other experts say from a science perspective, it is clear that the United States is getting more extreme weather and climate change plays a role.
This year so far has seen 15 weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more, tied for the most in the first nine months of the year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
An analysis of 167 years of federal storm data by The Associated Press finds that no 30-year period in history has seen this many major hurricanes, this many days of those storms spinning in the Atlantic, or this much overall energy generated by those powerful storms.
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OLD RECORDS ARE BROKEN AS INCREASINGLY LARGER NATURAL DISASTERS GET LARGER AND MORE HORRIFIC
WILDFIRES CAUSED AT LEAST $3.3 BILLION IN INSURED LOSSES, NEW ESTIMATE SHOWS
The insurers reported 10,016 residential properties that are partial losses and 4,712 that are total losses. By its own count, Cal Fire said Tuesday that October’s fires destroyed 8,920 homes, commercial structures and outbuildings statewide, a figure that could include uninsured properties but exclude partial losses.
The 2017 California Wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned across Northern California in 2017. A total of 8,336 fires have burned 1,138,907 acres (4,608.99 km2), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_California_wildfires
Wikipedia; "Days prior to the wildfires, the National Weather Service had begun issuing red-flag warnings throughout much of northern California as conditions were expected to become extremely volatile, with winds expected to be gusting between 25 and 35 miles per hour (40 and 56 km/h) from the north to the south.[12] By the evening of October 8, the Diablo winds were reported gusting up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) within the affected areas as over a dozen wildfires began to break out.[13]
Aerial view of smoke from the 2017 fires in Napa and Sonoma Counties, California, on October 12 from near the south end of Lake Berryessa, nearest to the Atlas fire and looking toward the Nuns fire. Point Reyes is visible in the distance.
Many of those killed in the fires are believed to have died late on October 8 or early on October 9, 2017, when the fires broke out overnight. Most of the victims have been elderly, though the ages have ranged from 14 to 100.[14]
On October 9, California governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the counties of Napa, Sonoma, Yuba, Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada, and Orange, and sent a letter to the White House requesting a major disaster declaration.[15][16] President Donald Trump approved the disaster declaration on October 10.[15] That evening, Brown issued an emergency declaration for Solano County.[15] Surveying the region, representative Mike Thompson of California's 5th congressional district said, "I fully expect this will be the worst fire disaster in California history."[15]
More than 10,000 firefighters have been battling the blaze, using more than 1000 fire engines and other equipment, with crews arriving from as far away as Canada and Australia.[6][14]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) reported that 310,000 customers lost electricity service and 42,000 customers lost gas service since the wildfires started on October 8. By October 14, PG&E restored electricity to 92% and gas service to 16,800 of the customers affected.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2017_Northern_California_wildfires
11/1/2017 UPDATE: California fires
worst fire in Santa Rosa history
cellphone service knocked out to a wide area temporarily
The fires in Sonoma County started on Sunday night, and pretty much everyone was asleep as the fire traveled far and fast, driven by up to 70 mile per hour gusts and winds up to 50 miles per hour. The fire took out not just trees and grass, but power lines, homes, cable TV, Internet, cell phone towers, and caused the turning off of gas and electricity in wider areas, for the safety of residents and others.
It looks like there are at least 25 fires statewide.. probably many more than this because a lot of these fires also have 'hot spot' fires around them that are not officially counted as their own fires, but they still destroy homes and property.
This may just be the beginning because all 15 to 17 local fires in Sonoma County and surrounding counties are still at 0 to 10 percent containment. as of 10/11/2017.
DRONE FOOTAGE
DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWS DEVASTATION CAUSED BY CALIFORNIA FIRE
Video; https://youtu.be/wdyAYYrMwhY
via Drone footage shows devastation caused by California fire – YouTube
FIRES ALL OVER THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
October is the worst fire month because it is at the end of a long dry season, and that is when both the Santa Ana and other winds pick up, right before the rainy season starts.
GENERAL INFORMATION AND MAPS OF FIRES
Contact local emergency responders, agencies or newspapers, radio stations to find the local equivalent of the items below for your city or town.
Click on link to see Satellite map of burned out areas, like the picture below. It is possible to zoom in, zoom out and move the map around. It is possible to see individual homes, now that the smoke has cleared. Red areas are trees, not burned areas. The light grey spots are the former homes of a whole neighborhood, now gone almost completely.
Click on link to see Satellite map of burned out areas, like the picture below. It is possible to zoom in, zoom out and move the map around. It is possible to see individual homes, now that the smoke has cleared. Red areas are trees, not burned areas. The light grey spots are the former homes of a whole neighborhood, now gone almost completely.
Sonoma County Fire Info
Up-to-date information, resources and news regarding the Tubb's, Nunn's and other fires in Sonoma County, California.
www.sonomafireinfo.com
Road closure map
Updated fire map
Forest Service fire maps
Road closure map
Updated fire map
Forest Service fire maps
Evacuation Centers remain open throughout Sonoma County. An updated list can be found at http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/
Sonoma County has four evacuation centers with enhanced services, including Mental Health services. These include Sonoma Marin Fairgrounds, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Elsie Allen High School, and the Santa Rosa Veterans Building. We encourage evacuees in need of sheltering to go to these evacuation centers first.
Evacuation Centers are not checking immigration status – they are open to welcome and keep all members of our community safe"
Santa Rosa City Emergency Information
https://srcity.org/610/Emergency-Information
Santa Rosa City Emergency Information
https://srcity.org/610/Emergency-Information
SIGN UP FOR LOCAL EMERGENCY ALERT SERVICES BY MESSAGE SERVICE OR EMAIL SERVICE
County of Sonoma Public Affairs, County of Sonoma One of the best ways to receive alerts during this emergency is to sign up SoCoAlert. Emergency officials use SoCoAlert to deliver incident specific information to precise geographic areas. Go to SoCoAlert.com and click on "Sign Up Today" to sign up. The County of Sonoma is posting information about evacuation areas, evacuation centers, press releases, health information, and much more helpful information for the community at sonomacounty.ca.gov.
SHERIFF DEPT EVACUATION AND OTHER EMERGENCY ALERT MESSAGE SERVICE
Call your local emergency services, sheriff, police and ask if they have a smartphone message alert service, and then sign up for it.
SONOMA COUNTY ONLY; Send a message that is your zip code number in the message section to phone number 888777
You will then receive alerts about things going on in your zip code area. Don't rely on any one source of information, because no one source is perfect or gets everything handled. Sign up for multiple services, and watch or listen to several sources, so that you have a better handle on what is going on.
WHY DIDN'T SHERIFF DEPT WARN EVERYONE TO EVACUATE WHEN THE FIRE FIRST STARTED?
It sounds so easy... just warn everyone to evacuate and give everyone lots of notice. People assume that will of the modern high tech, communications systems and satellites monitoring everything, that Nature is now in complete control and can be managed absolutely.
In practice giving warnings for things like out of control forest fires fueled by hurricane force winds is almost impossible to do. Given the circumstances of a night time fire driven by 70 mile per hour winds, there was nothing the fire fighters could do except try and rescue people in the direct path of the fire. There was no focus on saving homes or property, because that is just about impossible to do with forest fires combined with 70 miles per hour winds, in the middle of the night. Just about everyone was asleep and the totally overwhelmed night shift staff on duty at the time did the best that they could under these VERY DESPERATE and HORRIFIC circumstances.
In practice giving warnings for things like out of control forest fires fueled by hurricane force winds is almost impossible to do. Given the circumstances of a night time fire driven by 70 mile per hour winds, there was nothing the fire fighters could do except try and rescue people in the direct path of the fire. There was no focus on saving homes or property, because that is just about impossible to do with forest fires combined with 70 miles per hour winds, in the middle of the night. Just about everyone was asleep and the totally overwhelmed night shift staff on duty at the time did the best that they could under these VERY DESPERATE and HORRIFIC circumstances.
Imagine you are responsible for evacuating a LARGE area with potentially 500,000 people that must be moved quickly. Imagine that you know almost everyone is asleep, and it has to be done in the next couple hours.. What would you do and how would you do it, when your police, fire and sheriffs are already overwhelmed with RESCUE calls?
How do you prevent a panic in a wider area, which would completely clog up the roads leading out and cause even more death or injuries, plus block all first responders from doing anything at all? How do you prevent gridlock on the ONE small highway, road, and/or freeway that leads to safety, which would mean death for potentially thousands of drivers caught in a nightmare scenario of being stuck in traffic, with a raging fire storm swallowing up thousands of cars and passengers?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/UiryCpEaOUY
via Heroic Sheriff's Deputy Rescues Lady in Santa Rosa - YouTube
Sending out an emergency text message is possible, but only 2 percent of the population in the area is signed up. Sending out an email message is also possible, but very few people are up and reading their emails after 10 pm. Sending out a TV or radio emergency message is possible, but again, few people are up and watching TV or listening to a radio in the middle of the night.
What is left is knocking on doors to each and every home, and/or driving around various forest communities affected, and individual forest roads, where it may only be a one track dirt driveway, and warning individual homeowners by waking them up somehow. How many first responders and fire fighters would this take?
Are you able order these emergency responders into dangerous conditions where they may not make it out alive, as the 50 to 100 foot walls of flame are advancing rapidly and jumping over firefighters who are trying desperately to stop a raging out of control fire storm?
Reverse calling is also possible, but the 911 center was staffed by about 5 people and they were rapidly overwhelmed by the huge number of people waking up to smoke and calling in, plus rescue requests from those unable to drive out, like the rescued disabled lady in the video above.
Imagine what would have happened if hundreds of thousands of people had been reverse called all at the same time, and told to evacuate.. There is no way to tell them where to go, what to do, other than to GET OUT! .. The result would have been absolute PANIC and mayhem.
Imagine what would have happened if hundreds of thousands of people had been reverse called all at the same time, and told to evacuate.. There is no way to tell them where to go, what to do, other than to GET OUT! .. The result would have been absolute PANIC and mayhem.
WHY ARE FIRE FIGHTERS NOT FIGHTING THE FOREST FIRES OR PUTTING OUT BURNING HOME FIRES? THE FIRST PRIORITY IN ANY FIRE DISASTER DRIVEN BY HIGH WINDS IS DEDICATED TO SAVING LIVES, NOT PROPERTY AND ALSO NOT FIGHTING FIRES
Why are firefighters not fighting forest fires or saving homes that are on fire?
Officials give update on devastating North Bay wildfires
The first priority of emergency responders is keeping everyone safe and saving lives. To do that requires rescues, evacuations, and mandatory stay away areas, plus curfews. If there are enough resources the next phase is trying to save structures and infrastructure. After the fire goes through, there are numerous hazards such as downed power lines, trees that may come down, chemicals, etc.. People must be kept out of fire affected areas until it can be determined that it is safe for the public to return, including children.
Lives are what matter and property can be replaced. Many firefighters and police lost homes in this fire, but they are still showing up for work, despite losing everything. There is no vacation, time off or responders not doing something. The emergency responders are all on 12 hour shifts. They eat, sleep, and then go back to work. 300 missing people reports were taken today, and they found 150 people today. There are over 200 people still on the missing people list.
As of 10/10/2017, in Sonoma County, there are 5,000 firefighters on the line, fighting active fires, guarding homes from fires moving close to them, mopping up hot spots after the fire passes, or driving around watching for embers landing and starting new fires.
But with 17 active fires just in one small local area, and the hundreds of thousands of homes and people in them that must be rescued, homes that must be guarded from surrounding forest and fires moving through them, or mopping up after a fire passes through, that is not a lot of firefighters per fire. There are just not enough fire fighters to guard every home, every neighborhood, and all lives that can possibly be lost, so they do the best that they can.
Do not call 911 for smoke. Call 911 ONLY for active emergencies, looters, to report a fire that you can see, or for any threat to life or property.
If smoke is causing problems, call health care providers, not police or 911.
But with 17 active fires just in one small local area, and the hundreds of thousands of homes and people in them that must be rescued, homes that must be guarded from surrounding forest and fires moving through them, or mopping up after a fire passes through, that is not a lot of firefighters per fire. There are just not enough fire fighters to guard every home, every neighborhood, and all lives that can possibly be lost, so they do the best that they can.
Miekal And October 9 Firefighters had “zero percent” containment and warned that, while winds had weakened slightly over the course of the day, “because of heat and low humidity, fire growth is still likely.”
DON'T OVERWHELM 911 CENTERS WITH NON EMERGENCY CALLS; USE THEM ONLY FOR TRUE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
Do not call 911 for smoke. Call 911 ONLY for active emergencies, looters, to report a fire that you can see, or for any threat to life or property.
If smoke is causing problems, call health care providers, not police or 911.
IF YOU SEE FIRE IN THE DISTANCE UPWIND, OR LIVE EMBERS FLYING, EVACUATE, DON'T WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO TELL YOU TO TO EVACUATE, ESPECIALLY IN CASE OF HIGH WINDS
If you live in the woods, in grass land, or near the edge of the forest or grass lands, be especially aware of forest fires, because you are in the primary and worst danger zone. People living in cities or towns and that live near the edge of the city, where the forest meets it, are also in a danger zone.
The further one lives away from the edge of the forest in a city or town, the lower the danger level from forest fires. Forest fires can only continue burning as long as they have fuel. Cities and towns don't offer forest fires fuel, unless they are really full of pine trees on every street and empty lot, and that is rare. Generally speaking, once a forest fires hits the edge of a town, it stops right there, unless the houses burn right on the edge, and then those houses might ignite other homes next door in a domino falling one after another fashion.
The further one lives away from the edge of the forest in a city or town, the lower the danger level from forest fires. Forest fires can only continue burning as long as they have fuel. Cities and towns don't offer forest fires fuel, unless they are really full of pine trees on every street and empty lot, and that is rare. Generally speaking, once a forest fires hits the edge of a town, it stops right there, unless the houses burn right on the edge, and then those houses might ignite other homes next door in a domino falling one after another fashion.
One person who was awake and was watching the fire travel towards him on the side of a foothill in the forest said that when the fire was several miles away, he figured he could slowly get his things ready and get out over the next couple hours. Five minutes later, the fire was at his doorstop and embers plus choking smoke was filling the air. His house was on fire two minutes after the fire got to his house. He barely had time to get in his car to evacuate. This is the kind of risk people living in the forest are subject to, especially on the sides of hills and mountains.
There are people who did not make it in this fire, because they either waited too long to get out, or they never woke up as the fire hit their homes at night. A 100 foot tall wall of flame is not something anyone can live through, and firefighters do not stand a chance even with city water pressure, fire hoses and high pressure water fed in unlimited amounts, if they are downwind and facing that wall of flame coming up the side of a hill or mountain.
Smart firefighters run just as fast as they can away from 100 foot high walls of fire that are traveling with the wind. They also cannot breathe in the choking smoke that goes downwind from fires, so it is very difficult to impossible to stop a wild fire that is driven by strong winds and lots of fuel build up in the woods, even on level ground.
The following picture is from news coverage on roof of Kaiser hospital, showing downtown Santa Rosa neighborhoods burning. All of those spots of light are fires and homes or businesses burning.
Just because you live in a city does not mean you are safe from forest fires, especially in high wind situations. Embers can be thrown for MILES ahead of a fire. Once an ember lands in a gutter or dry grass, and it catches a home on fire, wind does the rest. One home burning can cause a whole neighborhood to be lost, as the fire jumps from one home to the next via wooden fences, sparks or close proximity, because fire fighters cannot save anything due to being totally overwhelmed.
The higher the wind speed, the further the embers will travel into a city or town, and then catch things like wooden fences roofs, grass and houses on fire. Santa Rosa was unlucky in that part of it was right on the edge of the forest. The wind speed was high. The wind was going from east to west, and embers from burning trees, grass and brush got picked up and were thrown all over, deeper into the city, away from where the city met the forest edge. This deadly combination is rare, but a catastrophe is what happens when it does occur.
The following picture is from news coverage on roof of Kaiser hospital, showing downtown Santa Rosa neighborhoods burning. All of those spots of light are fires and homes or businesses burning.
Just because you live in a city does not mean you are safe from forest fires, especially in high wind situations. Embers can be thrown for MILES ahead of a fire. Once an ember lands in a gutter or dry grass, and it catches a home on fire, wind does the rest. One home burning can cause a whole neighborhood to be lost, as the fire jumps from one home to the next via wooden fences, sparks or close proximity, because fire fighters cannot save anything due to being totally overwhelmed.
The higher the wind speed, the further the embers will travel into a city or town, and then catch things like wooden fences roofs, grass and houses on fire. Santa Rosa was unlucky in that part of it was right on the edge of the forest. The wind speed was high. The wind was going from east to west, and embers from burning trees, grass and brush got picked up and were thrown all over, deeper into the city, away from where the city met the forest edge. This deadly combination is rare, but a catastrophe is what happens when it does occur.
HOW AND WHEN TO PREPARE FOR A DISASTER; WHAT TO INCLUDE IN AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS KIT FOR YOUR FAMILY
Don't wait for a forest fire to appear on your doorstep to prepare a bug out bag at the very least. Pack way ahead of any disaster so that you can grab and go, with whatever it is that is needed for an extended stay at an emergency evacuation center.
TAKE PICTURES OF ALL YOUR BELONGINGS AND STORE THEM ON A THUMB DRIVE THAT YOU TAKE ALONG WHEN YOU EVACUATE
TAKE PICTURES OF ALL YOUR BELONGINGS AND STORE THEM ON A THUMB DRIVE THAT YOU TAKE ALONG WHEN YOU EVACUATE
How To Prepare For A Hurricane, What NOT TO DO During A Hurricane, GET OUT If You Can, Create An Emergency Disaster Preparedness Kit That Works For Natural Or Human Caused Catastrophes Like Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Or Forest Fire
Crucial items to include in an emergency preparedness kit for forest fires are;
P95 painters face masks that equal a HEPA filter, to filter out smoke and smaller particles, so that you can walk around outdoors in heavy smoke conditions. Get the ones with charcoal added to the filtration material to filter out the extremely toxic chemicals that may be in the smoke from burning homes or businesses.
Shop and price compare; Dust mask
Shop and price compare; HEPA filter type air filtering mask
Shop and price compare; Dust mask
Shop and price compare; HEPA filter type air filtering mask
SHOP AND PRICE COMPARE FOR YOUR EMERGENCY KIT NOW
Remember that you may be on your own if your house survives a fire disaster for several weeks, without gas, power, communications and/or water.
Shop and price compare Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert
Shop and price compare; best one is a solar powered Flashlight
Shop and price compare; First aid kit
Shop and price compare; batteries
Shop and price compare; rechargeable batteries and charger
Shop and price compare; Whistle to signal for help
Shop and price compare; Dust mask to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
Shop and price compare; HEPA filter type air filtering mask
Shop and price compare; HEPA filter type air filtering mask
Shop and price compare; Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
Shop and price compare; Wrench or plumber pliers to turn off utilities
Shop and price compare; Manual can opener for food
Shop and price compare; Emergency freeze dried food kit
Shop and price compare; Emergency 911 Cell phone with charger
Shop and price compare; Emergency personal and portable water filtration systems
Shop and price compare; Emergency kit boxes, bags, etc.. to hold emergency supplies
GOING DEEPER INTO BEING PREPARED FOR ANY DISASTER MEANS BECOMING MORE SELF SUFFICIENT, WITH FOOD, WATER AND POWER
After any major disaster, the power and water may be out for weeks or potentially up to a month or longer, it may help if finances permit it, to have a couple back up RECHARGEABLE batteries for cellphones, flashlights, fans. The next ingredient to making it through for several weeks or a month requires having solar panels and an inverter to recharge everything. Having water filters that work in a passive manner, means you don't need bottled water. Having a month's worth of freeze dried food means you are OK on your own and don't need to use precious gasoline to drive to a grocery store, which will probably be out of food anyway.
Shop and price compare; Emergency supplies
Shop and price compare; One week to One MONTH freeze dried emergency food supply
Shop and price compare; Solar Panels and inverter
Shop and price compare; Inverter
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HOW TO DEAL WITH SMOKE IN YOUR HOME
Close all windows and doors and stay indoors as much as possible. Avoid going outside without a mask if at all possible.
Turn on your furnace/AC unit with the fan set ON, manual, fan only mode, unless you need heat or AC of course.
Purchase a special HEPA type furnace/AC filter and replace the normal filter that is not designed to filter out smoke particles.
Shop and price compare HEPA air filter for furnace/AC unit
Purchase a separate HEPA, charcoal air filtration system and/or negative ion generator sufficient to treat the air in your home. A combination of all of the above is best.
Shop and price compare HEPA, negative ion generator air cleaning machine
If you need to go outside, and heavy smoke is present, and you don't have a mask, use a dish towel, rag or something equivalent over your nose and mouth, to help reduce the amount of smoke particles breathed in. Even a painters mask is better than nothing.
WHY ARE PLANES NOT DROPPING FLAME RETARDANT OR WATER ON ALL OF THESE FOREST FIRES AND PUTTING THEM OUT?
Planes and helicopters can usually only fly during CLEAR day light hours, and then only if there is plenty of visibility. No planes or helicopters can fly at night, unless there is a huge emergency and potential loss of life and that is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
If the daytime air is full of smoke and poor visibility, then planes and helicopters also cannot fly.
Conditions have to be just right to allow safe flights by aircraft so that they can see each other, the mountains, power lines and other things that planes or helicopters can crash into.
If the air is clear enough to fly, then the emergency water and flame retardant aircraft are assigned in order of priority to fires all over the state in a shared manner. Their first priority is to save homes, and then to fight forest fires.
Because so many people have built homes in forested areas, these aircraft and fire fighters may not fight the forest fires at all. All aircraft me be totally focused on saving homes and businesses on a local basis, but only during daylight hours, and only if visibility allows it.
LOCAL NEWS STATIONS ARE USUALLY BEST FOR DISASTER COVERAGE AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS, PROVIDING INFORMATION
Get an FM/AM radio and tune into a local station, because that may be the only reliable communication left in case of a disaster.
ABC7News; If Internet is available, local news service will more than likely be providing non stop coverage.
Press Democrat; Fires break out across Sonoma County
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7506978-181/fires-break-out-across-sonoma?artslide=0
Also access local radio stations on both AM and FM dial for non stop coverage.
Updated fire/evacuation information for Santa Rosa, Sonoma County at 103.5 fm KSRO
AFTER THE DISASTER; FILE OR FIND MISSING PERSONS REPORT, AND HOW TO AVOID BECOMING A MISSING PERSON
Before a disaster hits, call your family and let them know a backup method of finding out about your status and that you are OK. For example, if the family uses Facebook, that could be a backup method to communicate about health and safety status. If a person is evacuated and all normal methods of communications go down, then Facebook would be used to post information via a public library computer.
Elect an out of state person who the family can call who will be the central 'hub' for all communications in case of a disaster. That person will change depending on which person is involved in a disaster, so have several people. A person involved in a disaster may only be able to call one person for a couple minutes. Then that family member will have to transmit and pass on that message to all other friends, relatives and family members, like a phone or email/message tree. Ideally, this system needs to be set up and in place BEFORE a disaster hits.
Sonoma County Emergency Operations Hotline: (707) 565-3856
List yourself as safe and well through the Red Cross. If you are near a disaster or have lived through a disaster, but you have no ability to communicate with anyone, you can mark yourself safe or search registrants through the red cross website, SafeandWell.communityos.org or in person via the Red Cross at any emergency shelter staffed by them.
https://namus.gov/
Report and Identify Missing Persons | DOJ | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/actioncenter/report-and-identify-missing-persons
https://www.justice.gov/actioncenter/report-and-identify-missing-persons
California Missing Persons | State of California - Department of Justice ...
https://oag.ca.gov/missing
https://oag.ca.gov/missing
To report a missing person, call the Sonoma County Fire and Emergency Department or your local community/city equivalent in other areas.
REGARDING LARGE ANIMALS
Take large farm animals to the local fairgrounds. Call ahead for details, to make sure they have room, etc.
Jim Leddy @sonomafair: DONATIONS: Contact us before heading this way! Call 707-545-4200 or email publicity@sonomacountyfair.com for further instructions.
REGARDING SMALL ANIMALS
Most shelters will take small animals, especially if you have a portable travel cage for your pet.
Small animals; call for services in Santa Rosa 707-565-7-6100
REGARDING WILD ANIMALS
Dhyana Light if you live anywhere near the fires that are decimating California please be aware that wild animals are fleeing the fires and they may show up in your yards. Please put out buckets of water for them - they are scared, exhausted, and have also lost their homes - they need to refuel. Bring in your pets at night.
WATER POTABILITY AND SAFETY
Go to local city website such as www.srcity.org to get information on water boiling notices. Water may not be safe to drink after a major disaster, including a forest fire.
Larkfield, Fulton And Wikiup areas have a DO NOT DRINK ADVISORY
Water Boil Advisory In Fountaingrove area.
Check with a local water utility website, or city website for local advisory.
Check with a local water utility website, or city website for local advisory.
WHAT TO DO AFTER A FIRE; INSURANCE AND CREDIT CARD COMPANY HELP
Call for insurance company assistance; 1-800-927-HELP
Jim Leddy Legal Aid Internet service posted this from a survivor of the Oakland Hills fire.
Call Legal Aid for help!
REPOSTING - pass along to people affected by the fire
(1) Contact your insurance companies. Most will cover hotel stays, apart from the usual coverage
(2) Call your credit card companies and have the last 3-6 months of purchases reimbursed back (get a police report that testifies you are a fire victim)
(3) If you are renting and are a minor, your parents' home insurance may cover your belongings
(4) Call your chain retail stores and see what they can offer to fire victims
(5) Get as many resources and information as you can and keep passing the info around
OFFER HOUSING IF YOU HAVE IT, AND/OR CHECK FOR SHARED HOUSING OFFERS VIA LOCAL RESOURCES
First check with friends, relatives, family or faith community. Check out shared emergency housing situations. Call or attend your local faith related organization to see what they might have available. The best chance at housing in that direction is to keep showing up and keep on asking for help.
Amy Appleton SHARE Sonoma County has created temporary home sharing for those who have lost their housing due to the recent fires. We have received many calls from those offering rooms. Most are temporary placements, but some can be more long term. We currently have over 40 home providers offering housing. Thank you for being so generous. We will need many more housing opportunities, so please contact us.
Anyone needing housing due to the fire, please contact us immediately. We are ready to begin matching folks.
If you'd like to volunteer, please call us ASAP.
Please forward this on to county agencies, county employees, senior centers, government officials, emergency responders, hospitals, etc. so that we can continue to get the word out to everyone.
CONTACT via EMAIL: SHAREFire@petalumapeople.org
TELEPHONE: 707.765.8488, ext. 126.
We have an application process which will be done over the phone. Many of these housing opportunities include accepting families and pets. Some are only for a few days, but some are a month or longer."
If you have extra room, offer it first to people you know that were negatively affected. Then offer it to organizations like SHARE..
If you have extra room, offer it first to people you know that were negatively affected. Then offer it to organizations like SHARE..
LOCAL ONE STOP DISASTER ASSISTANCE CENTER OPENED ON 10/14/17
LOCAL ASSISTANCE CENTER - LAC
Ask about locations that offer a one stop place where all help and assistance is available to residents who have been negatively affected by a fire. 707-585-3856
The County of Sonoma and the City of Santa Rosa opened a Local Assistance Center (LAC) in partnership with FEMA and the California Office of Emergency Services on Saturday morning (10/14/17). The LAC is a one-stop-shop with critical services for residents who have been impacted by the fires. The LAC will be open from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm for at least two weeks and likely longer at the Press Democrat building in downtown Santa Rosa at 427 Mendocino Ave. between Ross and 5th Streets. Parking is free off of B St. in the City lot
THE TWO LARGEST HOSPITALS IN SANTA ROSA WERE CLOSED AND EVACUATED; DON'T ASSUME HOSPITALS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE
It is truly shocking and amazing that the two largest healthcare providers were totally shut down, and everyone in those facilities was evacuated. As of today, 10/13/2017, there is no firm date or estimate about when those two facilities will reopen.
"Various doctors and nurses were dispatched to various shelter facilities to deal with health and mental health needs. There is also a local emergency health office set up to deal with the needs of people who were negatively affected by the fire. Regarding air issues. Stay indoors as much as possible. Turn on fan AC unit, on fan only, to help filter out smoke particles."
Where is this local emergency health office?
"Various doctors and nurses were dispatched to various shelter facilities to deal with health and mental health needs. There is also a local emergency health office set up to deal with the needs of people who were negatively affected by the fire. Regarding air issues. Stay indoors as much as possible. Turn on fan AC unit, on fan only, to help filter out smoke particles."
Where is this local emergency health office?
It may also be necessary to be self sufficient in cases of disaster, because medical help or consultation may be impossible. Set up your natural health disaster kit, or first aid kit ahead of time, so you have it when needed.
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http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/08/natural-health-remedies-and-protocols.html
If you need medical assistance of any kind after a disaster, call 911.
If you need medical assistance of any kind after a disaster, call 911.
AFTER A DISASTER; CONTACT LOCAL SHELTERS OR AGENCIES AND ASK WHAT IS NEEDED, BEFORE OFFERING THEM ANYTHING
Below are some suggestions, but be sure to call ahead and check out if these are still needed, because they may change on a daily basis, or they may already have sufficient quantities, so it is a waste of your time and resources to get more, if they are already filled up.
Reposted: Update on what Sonoma needs (based on FB status updates of elected officials, staff of elected officials, City of Sonoma, Sonoma Community Center)
1) Grief and Crisis Counselors: Trained counselors are needed at SVHS to connect with evacuated folks. If you are licensed and able, call (707) 888-5863
2) Sleeping supplies: Cots, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, easily inflatable mattresses, pillow, and blankets are needed at both Adele, SVHS, and Altimira (perhaps the Vet's Building as well - can someone confirm that?)
3) Supplies: Air fans, chairs, water, toiletries, towels, pet food, and face masks. Drop off at Adele, SVHS, Altimira and Vet's Building
4) Adult Diapers: Adult diapers in size Large and some size Small for Adele. There are medically fragile SDC patients there.
5) Toys and Games: Fun things for kids to play with are needed at all sites.
6) Pet Support: Pets Lifeline is evacuating the shelter to Marin Humane and need help loading animals into transport vehicles and possibly transporting over to Marin. If you're in our area out on 8th St. and can get to them, call (707) 996-4577
UTILITIES ARE OFTEN GET TURNED OFF TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE
Why are utilities like gas, electricity, and water turned off even if disaster has not struck a specific town or neighborhood?
PGE has 1,000 individuals working on emergency and service requests. Gas and electric may be turned off without notice, even if a fire is not threatening a neighborhood, just because the utility may decide to take preventative actions ahead of time in a high risk area, prone to burning from a forest fire. In other cases, power or gas may still be on, even after a fire has burned down a whole neighborhood, and gas may be flaring out of pipes sticking out the ground, even when there is no home left there any more.
Keith Roberts, City of Santa Rosa Pacific Gas and Electric Company estimates more than 160 outages impacting more than 50,000 customers in Sonoma County. PGE is coordinating closely with CalFire Incident Command, Sonoma County Emergency Operations Centers, and local elected officials to restore power as quickly as possible to areas cleared by CalFire for entry. It will likely take several days to restore power completely to all customers.
PGE has also turned off gas service to approximately 28,000 customers in Santa Rosa, Windsor, Yountville, Napa and Kenwood."
Keith Roberts, City of Santa Rosa Pacific Gas and Electric Company estimates more than 160 outages impacting more than 50,000 customers in Sonoma County. PGE is coordinating closely with CalFire Incident Command, Sonoma County Emergency Operations Centers, and local elected officials to restore power as quickly as possible to areas cleared by CalFire for entry. It will likely take several days to restore power completely to all customers.
PGE has also turned off gas service to approximately 28,000 customers in Santa Rosa, Windsor, Yountville, Napa and Kenwood."
CHECK WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT TO SEE WHICH SCHOOLS ARE STILL OPEN OR CLOSED; ALL HOMELESS CHILDREN AND TEENS HAVE A RIGHT TO ATTEND ANY SCHOOL EVEN WITH NO PAPERWORK
Any student that had their home burn down is classified as a homeless student, and they have a RIGHT to go to any school, anywhere, anytime, without any papers. Ask for special help or assistance, such as extra time on tests, or delays in taking tests, or special accommodations.
School closures are decided on a daily basis, starting at 3 AM, via a phone call between district superintendents.
Check with local school district website such as; www.SCOE.org
COMMUNICATIONS
Ask about Gophones at your emergency shelter or at retail electronics stores, which anyone can either get or buy and start using right away. These are cellphones sold with a preset amount of time on them. When the time allotted runs out, the phone quits working, but more time can be purchased at a retail cellphone store associated with a specific cellphone. With a gophone, no formal long term contract is needed.
Satellite phones may also be available at the shelters upon request, even if all landlines and cellphones are down and don't work. Emergency responders coming through neighborhoods may also have these satellite phones and allow short calls to notify family of safety status.
Check Facebook profile for any person that may be missing, as they may check in there, due to no cellphone service, or forgetting to bring charger with them to the evacuation service, so the phone may be dead.
Sometimes, a seemingly dead or non working cellphone service will still allow messages to get through, so try calling, emailing, Facebook messaging AND sending messages. One way may still be working even if the other ways do not work.
FREE WIFI HOTSPOTS AND COMPUTERS, PLUS ACCESS TO EMAIL
Every public library offers a free WIFI hotspot and also free computers to use.
Comcast Opens XFINITY WiFi Hotspots to Aid Residents and Emergency Personnel in Northern California
XFINITY WiFi Hotspots open, offering free Internet access to those affected by the North Bay Wildfires At XFINITY, we work and live in your communities, and our hearts go out to those impacted by the CA Wildfires. Please be assured our crews will be working in affected areas to restore services as soon as possible. Our priority is the safety of residents, customers and our employees.
In the meantime, we have opened all of our WiFi Hotspots in 25 counties, offering free internet access to anyone- not just XFINITY customers. Once at a hotspot, select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots and then launch a browser. XFINITY Internet customers can sign in with their username and password, and they will be automatically connected at XFINITY WiFi hotspots in the future.
Non-XFINITY Internet subscribers should visit the “Not an XFINITY Internet Customer” section on the sign-in page to get started. For a map of XFINITY WiFi hotspots, which are located both indoors and outdoors in places such as shopping districts, parks and businesses, please visit www.xfinity.com/wifi.
FUND RAISING FOR VICTIMS
Diane Darling Okay, I just talked to RWCU asst VP community matters named Meg in RP. She says they are making good progress on both collecting and disbursing funds. They are looking into providing gift cards and that will come together soon, though hundreds of them are being donated and given out every day already. As for larger disbursements, they are going through FEMA to identify and register people who lost so much. So you have to go register at the new FEMA relief center at 427 Mendo, SR, the PD building. RWCU will be cutting big checks to those in need
NEWSPAPERS AND NEIGHBORHOODS
There are 70 journalists and others working on this disaster at Press Democrat.
Check out neighbors helping neighbors via nextdoor service
NATIONAL GUARD
They work with fuel distribution. They help with firefighting. They may also help with police in patrolling neighborhoods where evacuations have taken place.
HOMELESS, IMMIGRANTS, INDIANS AND POOR ARE IGNORED, DESPISED AND MADE INTO CRIMINALS; WHY IS THERE SUCH A STARK DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF PEOPLE IN THE US; CASTE SYSTEM IN AMERICA
Why is it that animals are treated better than homeless human beings? Animals always seem to be able to find a home during or after a disaster. People who made homeless due to disaster are immediately provided with emergency shelter and then more stable housing situations after that. No one is left out in the cold.
Ironically, there is a plan by the city of Santa Rosa to raid the underpasses of 101, and to force chronically homeless people away from those locations and to criminalize being homeless even more than it already has been. The police rep said that he did not know if the raid would still proceed as planned on Monday, due to the fire emergency situation.
Recently, laws and ordinances have been passed making it even more of a a criminal offence to be homeless, to try and live while homeless and imposing fines plus jail time for anyone caught being homeless and trying to survive in that situation.
It is sad to see that the community and America in general is willing to help those who are considered 'normal', who lost homes in this disastrous fire or other huge disasters such as hurricanes, but Americans are mostly unwilling to house/help those neighbors who lost homes due to other types of personal disasters, and who end up being chronically homeless as a result of that.
Why is one disaster heart opening, and another type of disaster is heart closing? Why is there such a hyper focus on WHITE MIDDLE CLASS disaster suffering, but NO focus or attention on the poor, the homeless, the immigrants and Indians, just to name a few examples?
Why is one disaster heart opening, and another type of disaster is heart closing? Why is there such a hyper focus on WHITE MIDDLE CLASS disaster suffering, but NO focus or attention on the poor, the homeless, the immigrants and Indians, just to name a few examples?
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless (BAFTA WINNING DOCUMENTARY) - Real Stories
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/p_XBgGEZwpk 58 min.
Why The War On Poverty Has Been Lost, And Why US Homeless Now Seem To Make Up A Lowest Of The Low Permanent Undesirables Cast Just Like In India, Corporate Capitalism is Unwilling To Address Root Causes
Ozzy OToole October 9 Someone just posted Fountain Grove is gone ... Maybe the rich should have a second thought of helping the poor .... Just saying ....
I would like to add that there are those of us who have been fighting a losing battle against gentrification in Santa Rosa. And it has taken a toll on a lot of people that are not only fight those that are fighting just to survive in a community that has waged an all out assault on homelessness with no real plan ...
Property owners ( part of the elite of Sonoma County ) have not only made it impossible for low income people to secure hosing .. But now it has moved to affect the working class and those that have lived here their whole lives ...
Recently Santa Rosa passed misdemeanors ... Carrying both fines and jail time ... the sole purpose is to target poor and unsheltered ...
I was expressing my anger at these people that have contributed to the chaos that is a devastating situation before the current fires ...
And I will agree I should not have reacted from anger and I should not have directed as I did ... For that I truly apologize ....
And anyone who knows me ... Know that I have compassion for all that suffer regardless of their station in life .... And I wish " EVERYONE SAFETY AND A SPEEDY RECOVERY " From this tragic series of events ...."
Mikeal Ozzy OToole
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A Place At The Table; Why Does America Rank DEAD LAST Among Civilized Nations For Number Of People In Hunger?
Why More Emergency Housing Shelters, Tent Camps, Safe Parking, And Section 8 Are Not The Answer For Permanently Housing All Of The Homeless
Housing The Homeless Children Challenge Via Housing Ladder; Why Can't They All Be Sheltered For $2.00 Per Day, Per Person, In Tiny Homes? HUD Study On Tiny Homes As Solution For Homeless Housing
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2015/02/2015-housing-homeless-children.html
THE UNFOLDING HYPOCRISY OF SONOMA COUNTY
A couple days ago I wondered about how many inmates are fighting these fires and I received my answer when a friend posted this article today. In it, we learn that around thirty percent of the brave firefighters are inmates (they receive two dollars a day and two dollars an hour while on fire lines). We also learn from a different article that around two hundred female inmates are fighting these fires on our behalf and are being paid a dollar an hour. During the revolutionary war slaves were forced to fight for, and often times in place of, slave owners. The quality of this analogy is disturbing. Are we so shallow that this comes down to a uniform? What is the difference between a slave and a slave in a military uniform? What is the difference between an inmate in a jumpsuit and one in a firefighter’s uniform?
Yet these events aside, perhaps what pushed me to write this morning was when I read this article. What we learn here is that ICE has “suspended operations” in the disaster areas. They will only “pick someone up” if said person is a “serious criminal presenting a current public safety threat.” The irony of ICE being a public safety threat aside, the fact that it took five days for this to happen—and in a “sanctuary state” no less—is noteworthy. Likely thousands of non-citizens are working in vineyards and farms right now without adequate safety in this toxic air; many lost their residences in the fires. Yet here our government effectively says that a dead immigrant is the same as a deported one. Such a perspective is not new, it’s been official US policy in regards to American Indians for centuries.
Speaking of American Indians, has there been any coverage on the status of reservations and the Indian population during these fires? California has the largest self-identified indigenous population at just under 700,000, and there exist around a hundred reservations in the state. How many are threatened or damaged by the fires? It’s hard to say because there has been no coverage on this topic, yet we will jump at the opportunity to donate a generator to the Snoopy Ice Rink that was in ‘danger’ of melting. Is an ice skating rink more important than indigenous peoples? Sadly, it would seem so.
All told, I am disheartened by the fact that we will collectively bend over backwards to house, cloth, feed, shelter, and support thousands of people who had homes and lost them, while we scream and cry and dig our heels in refusing to address the fact that thousands of people don’t have homes. Why will we help people who had but not those who have not? What, exactly, is the difference between the two? The answer seems to be nothing other than judgement on our part. The truth is that people always need shelter but we collectively see and act upon this fact only in certain situations: those in which we feel morally comfortable. This is called hypocrisy.
America seems to want and approve of a permanent caste system, with untouchables, just like in India.The poorest and most disadvantaged US citizens such as immigrants, Indians, the homeless and the poorest among us are ignored, denied, attacked, despised, used as slave labor, abused, and suppressed. Why does that seem to be so OK in the supposedly greatest, richest, most free country on Earth?
So far, permanent housing solutions for the homeless living under bridges, in the weeds and along streams and rivers seem to be going nowhere, because there is little or no community WILL to do it. The solutions are all out there, and examples abound of other countries housing all of their homeless. Why is it that the richest, most powerful country on Earth cannot house all US citizens. Why is it OK to allow 2 million homeless children to wander the streets?
LOOTERS
Be good eyes and ears. Notice clothing type, color, height, hair color, distinguishing features, and as much detail as possible, including tattoos or license plate numbers of vehicles. Call 911, or the office number for police or sheriffs.
DEALING WITH GRIEF, FEAR, ANXIETY AND SHOCK
Seek out mental health counseling after any disaster if needed. Don't deny, cover up or pretend that emotional turmoil does not exist. These disasters can easily create PTSD types of trauma, especially for those who are burned out of their homes, or anyone dealing with those individuals.
The Stages Of Grief In Response To Trauma, Abuse, Loss, Disasters Such as Fukushima, Negative Global Tipping Points, Waking Up To Matrix, And How To Move Through To 12 Transcendence Habits
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2013/11/the-five-stages-of-grief-in-response-to.html
Everyone deserves to get counseling and help for dealing with the trauma generated by disasters. Learn how to release the trauma quickly and easily. Learn how to deal with the grief of loss. Learn how to become a master of your emotions and be in charge of them, rather allowing them to control you.
Everyone deserves to get counseling and help for dealing with the trauma generated by disasters. Learn how to release the trauma quickly and easily. Learn how to deal with the grief of loss. Learn how to become a master of your emotions and be in charge of them, rather allowing them to control you.
12 Ways To Avoid Becoming A Victim Of Change Or Negative Emotions; Use NLP, EMF or EMDR To Become A Master Of Your Emotions, Break Addictions To Drugs, Shopping, Reverse PTSD - Forget About Being Perfect
RADIOACTIVE FORESTS PLUS LICHEN ARE BECOMING A HUGE PROBLEM IN MORE PARTS OF THE WORLD
Radioactive Forests Emit Radioactive Heavy Metal Poison Smoke As Wildfires Across Globe Increasing In Size; Areas Burned Have Doubled, Says US Forest Service Fire Science Lab And Journal Nature
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2015/08/wildfire-seasons-across-globe.html
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https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/05/chernobyl-fukushima-tmi-radioactive.html
Mass Die Off Of Forests Happening Globally And Accelerating Death Rate Of Trees Is Increasing
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Julia "Butterfly" Hill's Story; Activist, Teacher, Healer, Practicing Civil Disobedience, Laying Her Body On The Line, Following Road Less Traveled
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2015/07/julia-butterfly-hill-activist-teacher.html
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Mega Drought Evidence; USA And Other Countries - California, Oregon, Washington Could Be Entering 100 To 200 Year Megadrought Period
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/08/mega-drought-evidence-usa-and-other.html
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The Illusion Of Fear, Anger, Hatred, The Power Of Love And The Oneness; A River Runs Through It, And A Dry Well Gives No Life; A Lesson And Conversation With Old Wise Oak Tree Leads To Oneness And Life Connections
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/09/the-power-of-fear-anger-hatred-love-and.html
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/09/the-power-of-fear-anger-hatred-love-and.html
NATURAL DISASTERS ARE GROWING LARGER AND WORSE DUE TO VIOLATIONS OF NATURAL LAWS, WHICH CREATE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
First of all, AGR extends deepest condolences and sympathies to all who suffered losses in this forest fire disaster.
Disasters of all kinds are getting worse. Disasters are getting bigger. Disasters are becoming more frequent and that includes forest fires. This is a fact that cannot be denied. How every person responds to these disasters is a choice. Forest fires have been suppressed for so many generations that the fuel load in forests is HUGE. Any fire that starts these days, especially with wind behind it, now has the capacity to create a multi BILLION dollar catastrophe.
The increasing size and severity of forest fire caused damages is just another negative tipping point among many other tipping points, which all work together in a negative entropic manner.
The increasing size and severity of forest fire caused damages is just another negative tipping point among many other tipping points, which all work together in a negative entropic manner.
45+ Negative Global Tipping Points Report
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/04/2014-list-of-45-global-tipping-points.html
Many people believe there is no global warming, and they also believe climate change is 'normal'. They see no reason to change or do anything differently. They continue to rush towards the cliff like lemmings on a frenzied death march. Many people also firmly believed that the Titanic was unsinkable, including those who built her.
Denial or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) does not work well when trying to solve problems, but it is a 'normal' part of the grieving process, when a person or society is not yet ready to accept really bad news. Can humanity live long enough to allow all of the people in denial to finally wake up to reality? Time will tell.
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Many people believe there is no global warming, and they also believe climate change is 'normal'. They see no reason to change or do anything differently. They continue to rush towards the cliff like lemmings on a frenzied death march. Many people also firmly believed that the Titanic was unsinkable, including those who built her.Denial or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) does not work well when trying to solve problems, but it is a 'normal' part of the grieving process, when a person or society is not yet ready to accept really bad news. Can humanity live long enough to allow all of the people in denial to finally wake up to reality? Time will tell.
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http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/09/researchers-say-modern-civilization-and.html
VIOLATING NATURAL LAW AND SUPPRESSING ALL FOREST FIRES MEANS THAT WHEN FOREST FIRES DO HAPPEN, THEY ARE MUCH LARGER, MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE AND CAUSE MUCH MORE CHAOS
Violating Natural Law does not mean humans get away with anything. Violating Natural Laws means that consequences are created, which are painful and involve more suffering.
Because the fuel load in most forests is so large due to suppressing all natural forest fires for several hundred years, there is no way to fight any fire as long as the winds are blowing, because walls of flame that are 100 feet tall and moving at 20 to 70 miles per hour gusts are totally out of the control of any fire fighters and their equipment. The only thing that can be done in this very sad situation is to run and get out of the way of the 100 foot high walls of super fire storms that throw out sparks and embers for sometimes miles ahead of themselves.
There is no way to win a war against Nature and there is no way to avoid the consequences of violating Natural Laws. Nature always fights back and wins in the longer term. Short term, humans have the audacity to claim that they are 'winning' the battle against Nature, but in the longer term, Nature always wins the war.
Forest fires are a natural part of the ecology in most parts of the world. Letting them burn until they self extinguish is the best way to handle forest fires. There should be controlled burns of forests every year at the proper time of the year when moisture levels of grass and trees and soil are high, thus allowing a very slow controlled burn out of the grass and dead wood under trees, but the public is resistant to that idea, largely because of the insane policy of allowing homes above ground in forested areas.
Building homes above ground, in forested areas, is even more of a really, really bad idea, especially on the sides of hills, where forest fires really like to climb and accelerate.
Forest fires are a natural part of the ecology in most parts of the world. Letting them burn until they self extinguish is the best way to handle forest fires. There should be controlled burns of forests every year at the proper time of the year when moisture levels of grass and trees and soil are high, thus allowing a very slow controlled burn out of the grass and dead wood under trees, but the public is resistant to that idea, largely because of the insane policy of allowing homes above ground in forested areas.
Building homes above ground, in forested areas, is even more of a really, really bad idea, especially on the sides of hills, where forest fires really like to climb and accelerate.
The problem is that people are building in areas where no above ground homes should be built in the first place. The natural 'ecological cycle' of forest fires is that any area with vegetation or a forest burns out once every 5, 10 to 30 years, possibly even more often.
Indigenous Native Americans lived on this continent for over one hundred thousand years, without ever trying to put out any forest fires, and they did just fine, but they did not build permanent homes in forested areas. They even started fires in the proper season in order to clear underbrush and to do a more controlled burn in times when the moisture content was high enough to not create super fire storms, but just low enough to allow a 'slow burn', thus cleansing the forest and allowing the next generation of trees to grow from the ashes.
Indigenous Native Americans lived on this continent for over one hundred thousand years, without ever trying to put out any forest fires, and they did just fine, but they did not build permanent homes in forested areas. They even started fires in the proper season in order to clear underbrush and to do a more controlled burn in times when the moisture content was high enough to not create super fire storms, but just low enough to allow a 'slow burn', thus cleansing the forest and allowing the next generation of trees to grow from the ashes.
Suppressing the natural and cyclical burn activity that gets rid of undergrowth, branches, dead grass/brush plus wood only makes the resulting fires that start anyway, but more infrequently, much worse, and much bigger, and much more destructive, both to the forests, the soil, to animals and to humans trying to live in areas where they have no business living, in a flammable, dry wood and grass filled area.
VIOLATING NATURAL LAW BY SPRAYING POISONS ON FORESTS RESULTS IN HUGE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
Forest managers violate Natural Law in other ways as well.
GMO Free USA Stop Spraying Glyphosate Spraying in New Brunswick: Current forest management practices focus on creating and maintaining large-scale softwood tree plantations in a way that primarily benefits corporate owners and shareholders. The practices require the poison glyphosate to be sprayed to kill off other plant species to make the tree plantations more profitable. The poison harms ecosystems and animals and other species in forests and waterways.
New Brunswick needs to ban glyphosate spraying and adopt better practices.
READ: https://nbmediacoop.org/2019/11/21/action-on-glyphosate-spraying-a-new-bill-in-the-new-legislature
The only way a logical common sense person (and thinking in a sustainable way) would live in a forested area that burns regularly, would be in a totally underground home, built of concrete, with steel windows and with steel doors, and steel rolling shutters on all windows so that the heat from wild fires would not start fires inside the home just via radiation. If the underground home has a foot of dirt on top of it, a grass fire can roll over it, and never touch or even threaten anyone inside of the home. No evacuations would be needed, because that home and its owners would be safe underground.
Of course, an insane society keeps on violating Natural Laws, and doing the wrong thing (suppressing all forest fires artificially), while also building flammable homes above ground in forest fire prone areas, and leaving all kinds of infrastructure vulnerable to fires as well, like dry creosote soaked power poles in wooded and grass filled areas.
MODERN SOCIETY VIOLATES NATURAL LAW BY SUPPORTING AND MAINTAINING RACISM, MILITARISM AND PREDATORY CAPITALISM
MLK said that the three greatest evils in society were Capitalism, Militarism and Racism. Americans have an unconscious addiction and obsession with all three of these, and they lead to bigger and bigger human created disasters, including larger and larger forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes and many more homeless people, as we are sadly witnessing.
Unless and until these three Natural Law violating evils are addressed and transcended, disasters will continue to happen and they will continue to grow until society itself collapses, due to an unsustainable focus on racism, greed and fear.
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Unless and until these three Natural Law violating evils are addressed and transcended, disasters will continue to happen and they will continue to grow until society itself collapses, due to an unsustainable focus on racism, greed and fear.
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Speech About The Three Evils of White American Society; Racism, Militarism And Capitalism - Scientific Power Has Outrun Our Spiritual Power. We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/01/dr-martin-luther-king-on-three-evils-of.html
THIS IS A TIME OF TRANSFORMATION, WHICH MEANS HUGE CHANGES ARE GOING TO HAPPEN
Anything that violates Natural Law is not sustainable.
Whatever is not sustainable is TERMINAL, by definition.
No war on Nature can be won.
Nature always wins in the end, because she bats last.
Whatever is not sustainable is TERMINAL, by definition.
No war on Nature can be won.
Nature always wins in the end, because she bats last.
ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL, THIS IS A TIME FOR TRANSFORMATION, CLEARING AND CLEANSING
Whatever you don't need anymore, let it go.. Donate whatever you have not used in a few years. Whatever darkness in the form of fear or hatred appears on the screen of the mind, release it and surrender it to the light. Transform the darkness into seeds of fire that burn out and turn into ashes, which then fertilize seeds of light and love. Follow your heart, not fear or hatred. What is underneath the fear? What is underneath the hatred? Dive into them and feel them, but go deeper, then deeper still. What is below?
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Many of you carry around loads of things from your past, both emotional and physical. In this joyous time of clearing, you are invited to
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WHAT YOU CAN DO; HELP OTHERS
No one lives on an island. Ask a neighbor that has suffered a loss due to fire, what they need. If you can help in some way, do that. Live by the golden rule. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
HELPING YOUR NEIGHBOR
If, in striving to be a hero, you become hysterical and overtaken with fear beyond your reckoning, to whom are you going to be of help anyway?
On the other hand, there can be times when you are stronger than you imagine, times when you may surprise yourself as to what you are truly capable of and find yourself sailing with flying colors.
Bear in mind, dear ones, that you don’t have to prove anything to anyone or yourself. You are not here on Earth to prove matters to yourself. You don’t have to take dares. Others also may not have known until this moment what decisions they could make freely on their own. They once may have been unable to. Who yet can make choices that they are, so far, are unable to make?
Those whom you see as sacrificing are doing what happens to rise within them to do — or, it could be said, a choice arose and chose them.
What you do not measure, cannot be changed or accounted for. The first step of change is to measure and keep track of something.
WHAT YOU CAN DO; PLANT MORE TREES
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT THE ANXIETY, FEAR, PTSD, DREAD AND FREAK OUT TIMES
Marcy Axness Get a (large) bottle of Bach Flowers Rescue Remedy. Take 4 drops under your tongue. Repeat often.
Plant Based Medicines, Medical Marijuana Card, CBD Cannabidiol as a Potential Treatment for generalized anxiety disorder, (GAD) panic disorder, (PD) social anxiety disorder, (SOD) obsessive-compulsive disorder, (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) THCD
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/02/plant-based-medicines-medical-marijuana.html
Anxiety, Stress, Worry, Fear, Depression; They Shrink The World Down And Tighten Into A Vice Grip, Self Fulfilling Negative Prophecy Leads To Mental Illness, Phobias, Delusion, Diseases, Self Destruction, And Global Armageddon
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/03/anxiety-stress-worry-fear-depression.html
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/03/anxiety-stress-worry-fear-depression.html
The Stages Of Grief In Response To Trauma, Abuse, Loss, Disasters Such as Fukushima, Negative Global Tipping Points, Waking Up To Matrix, And How To Move Through To 12 Transcendence Habits
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2013/11/the-five-stages-of-grief-in-response-to.html
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Natural Law Violations Cause Larger Forest Fires - (CA 1Yr) 14,728 Homes Destroyed/Damaged, 1.1 Million Acres Burned, 100 People Hospitalized, 40 Dead, 200 Missing - How To Deal With Aftermath - Maps Of Forest Fires - How To Create Forest Fire Or Natural Disaster Emergency Kit
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/10/california-forest-fires-2000-homes-lost.html
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/10/california-forest-fires-2000-homes-lost.html