There is a vegetation fire on my base (PIP)

[imhischeeseburger]

We've been having a lot of fires lately here from the heat but usually they are far away in the hills not close to residential areas. I just took this picture from outside my house.



Update from the base says the fire department is on it. I hope they get it under control soon.

[loveday]

Yikes. I would be wigging out.

Also I read this as "vegetarian fire", and I was all, why are they setting vegetarians on fire?

Fail.

[zitiqueen]

I also read it as vegetarian fire!

[sugarplum]

Aug 9, 2012 17:23:55 GMT -5 loveday said:

Yikes. I would be wigging out.

Also I read this as "vegetarian fire", and I was all, why are they setting vegetarians on fire?

Fail.

I did this too.

[liverandonions]

Mirarmar or Camp Pendleton? My territory for work (insurance) is San Diego...those areas catch fire a lot!

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Cheese - were you here when we had the big fires that burned thru the base to the ocean?? I remember driving home from work that day over the base and both sides of the freeway were on fire. It was nuts and super scary. I hope they get it out soon. Do you still have power??

[imhischeeseburger]

Liverandonions- Camp Pendleton

They didn't say anything about training, but offical update is that its 80% contained and they finally opened up the main road

Tarzan I wasn't there for that but I can only imagine. They said you could see the smoke from I-5.

[Doc_Lobster]

I keep reading this as "vegetarian fire".

[WOT?*]

Cheese, you are stationed at Pendleton? DH's firm had a company party on base (beachfront) last year. I guess the former base commander is brother to one of the partners or something along those lines. Y'all throw a hell of a bash. We still talk about it.

I hope you all are okay down there. I remember vividly being at my grandma's house and watching the hills burn when I was a kid. It was eerie.

[Nicole]

Wtf, right? Fires, earthquakes, rolling blackouts!

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Aug 9, 2012 17:24:56 GMT -5 sugarplum said:

Aug 9, 2012 17:23:55 GMT -5 loveday said:

Yikes. I would be wigging out.

Also I read this as "vegetarian fire", and I was all, why are they setting vegetarians on fire?

Fail.

I did this too.

Yup lol. I read it as there is a vegetarian on fire. I was all OMG someone help them!

[Doc_Lobster]

I was picturing a fire that only burns vegetables.

[liverandonions]

Stay safe! Luckily from what we know in our insurance world they do get those fires contained pretty quickly!

[Mrs.Rad888]

Aug 9, 2012 20:44:07 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Aug 9, 2012 17:42:48 GMT -5 tarzanswife said:

Cheese - were you here when we had the big fires that burned thru the base to the ocean?? I remember driving home from work that day over the base and both sides of the freeway were on fire. It was nuts and super scary. I hope they get it out soon. Do you still have power??

That fire was horrendous. We were in 29 Palms at the time Camp Pendleton and Miramar were sending people our way for shelter.

We really need some rain down here ASAP. I'm getting nervous about fire season.

I was there when it happened in 2003. I lived in East County, and the fire got within 1/2 mile of my house. My ship went out for the week the morning the fires started, but there were so many people affected, they made a special trip back to port so we could check on our families. My neighbors told me that they had been able to hear a single firetruck fighting the fire along the main street. It was mind-boggling how much land was blackened; I'd try to tell people that it was as far as you could see for 360*, but I know they thought I was exaggerating.