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Driving through Ventura fire..... (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2017 OP
Good lord... how is that stretch of freeway even open? femmocrat Dec 2017 #1
I don't get it awesomerwb1 Dec 2017 #2
I believe it is the 101. nt Sophiegirl Dec 2017 #4
Getty Center is off the 405 awesomerwb1 Dec 2017 #8
It's the 405. n/t ggmac0427 Dec 2017 #15
Correct, and the video is the Skirball Fire Brother Buzz Dec 2017 #17
Definitely 405 .. . Richard D Dec 2017 #19
That's the downtown LA fire... crazylikafox Dec 2017 #3
Abandon all hope all ye who enter here. iscooterliberally Dec 2017 #5
Really gratuitous Dec 2017 #7
I'd also be checking my console to make sure that I had two coins for the ferryman. iscooterliberally Dec 2017 #11
That is terrifying Sophiegirl Dec 2017 #6
Exactly my thoughts RandomAccess Dec 2017 #16
Yikes, stay safe everyone gopiscrap Dec 2017 #9
Looks like a fantasy land of doom that an adventurer would go to fight hell demons and monsters. Oneironaut Dec 2017 #10
Im familiar with that stretch of road spinbaby Dec 2017 #12
That's not Ventura. That's a new fire. We have 5 big ones here Beaverhausen Dec 2017 #13
I was in shock seeing this on tv now flamingdem Dec 2017 #14
Those people are crazy for driving that close to a fire. bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #18
 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
16. Exactly my thoughts
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 02:01 PM
Dec 2017

No way in hell. I could just see a traffic jam due to an accident -- and then what?? NO, thank you very little.

spinbaby

(15,090 posts)
12. Im familiar with that stretch of road
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:37 PM
Dec 2017

Those that haven’t been there might not appreciate that this is an urban area.

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)
13. That's not Ventura. That's a new fire. We have 5 big ones here
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:39 PM
Dec 2017

This new fire is threatening some major real estate in Los Angeles, including Bel Air, The Getty Center, etc.

Pray for us...

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
18. Those people are crazy for driving that close to a fire.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 02:12 PM
Dec 2017

One ember could blow up any of those vehicles.

I hope the firefighters get these fires under control.

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