​One of the nations busiest freeways,
the 405, was shut down for hours.
​Parts of the upscale neighborood
of Bel Air with multi-million dollar homes, were in flames. A drive into the 405 freeway, as many put it, is like a drive into hell. Hundreds of firefighters are on the ground, working around the clock, trying to contain the flames and making all efforts to save homes and mansions from being swallowed by the enormous flames. From the hills in Los Angeles to the beaches near Santa Barbara hundreds of thousands are forced to flee. There are 4 major separate wildfires burning: the Creek Fire, the Rye Fire with the biggest one the Thomas fire in Ventura County and the Skirball fire in the Bel-Air area Los Angeles. With Southern California's incredibly dry condition, no significant amount of rain in over 3 months, plus the strong winds, wildfires are nowhere to stop anytime soon. At least 70 thousand acres are already devoured by the flames feeding on dry thick brush.
​One of humanities worst disasters
is definitely fire. You can lose everything in a matter of minutes and so little thing to do to contain it. With your house burning, so hard to stop the flames and the smoke spreads rapidly and threatening your breathing, you can't breathe that easy actually, and you can barely open your eyes and nothing left to do except to grope around, finding your way out of the house the soonest possible time. Experience with fire is the worst kind. Panic is inevitable in this situation. You can't calm down even for a second because your life is in danger every single moment. Your years and years of hardwork will be lost right before your eyes. Here in the Philippines, people always say in times of fire, that it's better to be robbed than to lose all your belongings to fire. It's easier to buy back your burnt belongings than to rebuild a house swallowed by fire. Fire prevention should always be enforced around and everywhere.
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