Pic - Classic Mopar Lost in NorCal Mill Fire

[ocdart]

This pic was posted on web coverage of current NorCal Mill Fire...

 

[Ron H]

SAD pic

 

[Thrashingcows]

Man that sucks...probably moved the car onto the street hoping it would survive if the house/garage burned.

 

[bandit67]

As posted elsewhere , why ain't trees burnt up.....

 

[Thrashingcows]

As posted elsewhere , why ain't trees burnt up.....

I'm no firefighter or expert on fire but from what I've seen over the decades from wild forest fires and pics/vids of fires through cities and towns, the unpredictability of fire as it moves is just that...unpredictable! Why did the house on one side of the street burn, but the other did not, why did that small clump of trees survive the fire, but the surrounding 20 acres burn flat?

 

[440 PHIXX]

I just saw a 2 door ‘68 Ford Fairlane formal top burned up on the news.

 

[beanhead]

Again we are reminded there are more important things than cars, even Mopars....

 

[chargervert]

It doesn't look distorted,get the AMD catalog out and order new tin!

 

[bandit67]

Why did the house on one side of the street burn, but the other did not, why did that small clump of trees survive the fire, but the surrounding 20 acres burn flat?

I also am not an expert at firefighting but at my former employment I had some quite extensive training in my younger days. In looking at that photo, there is a tree very close to the van, the vans shadow almost appears to be touching the tree somewhat, but it may not be that close. Look at what appears to have been melted and run down the street out of the van. I would bet that is aluminum , from possibly some beverage cans in the back of the van. That van got hot, real hot if that is indeed melted aluminum. Just don't see those vehicles getting that hot and the tree close by shows no sign of heat...just odd to me...

 

[64BEL]

Wildfires often move very fast. Depending on the fuel, wind speed and direction, and other conditions, some things escape without being destroyed. They also create their own weather. We looked at some of the damage from the Marshall fire in Colorado (Dec of 2021) when we were out there in March. In some neighorhoods the damage was devistating on one side of the street and not the other. Generally, the fire will keep going intil it runs out of fuel either on it's own or through intervention. The wind is probably the biggest factor in determining the path of destruction. Many of the neighborhoods that were destroyed in the Marshall fire were packed tight with houses. The fire had no trouble spreading from one to another unimpeded. Over 1100 houses were destroyed and the winds were over 100 mph.

 

[Budnicks]

Poor RR, even sadder for the owner,
probably lost a bunch more than just a car

Negligent & poor "powers to be/govt." forest floor management
& Sacramento mandates moratoriums 'on logging',
budgets spent of other stuff instead of forest management, fire supression
That helps cause/caused this **** too, no matter how it actually started
Lots of arsen & people not being careful...
Logging helps
the loggers cut huge firebreaks & they clean up the forest floor, deadfall
diseased trees removed, Bark beetle kills, along with reg. lumber harvest
then they replant/trees millions of them, for a new harvest

It's 20 years now of (guess who's party) govt. mismanagement
reallocation of funds to social engineering BS

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Strange how the RR is parked,
I wonder if it was moved away from a structure ? (or some other reason)
that tree has burned too, it's been blackened, hard to see
but obviously, & not as bad as the van

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We have burned areas upcountry, with severe burns, mostly only flash fire
low in the forest when caught quickly,
IF caught quickly
it chares the bottom, bushes/brush, pine needles, leaves, grass/weeds on the floor
& the deadfall some also
but;
a week later
it almost looks like 'it was no fire at all',
like it just burned thru the forest floor fast
wind added on flat ground
the hillsides are completely burned up, draws the flame up the hills
especially when it's windy
all the way to the top of the ridges & top of the trees
with everything in it's path burned/chared

on the flats just a lil' blackened bark here & there
unfortunately, the houses in the fast-burning floor/flats fires
took them out too (wind added) lots of combustible in a house/garage
wood, shake, decks siding etc. etc. etc.
nothing but chimneys standing, but trees didn't look bad at all
just a lil' charing

not all fires burn the same

my Aunt was in Paradise, (nearly whole town burned)
when her place burned to the ground
& almost every place around her's was too
lots of hills & valleys, uphill fuels the flames, slower burns down the other side
they often start a backfire/controlled burn to stop them at the ridges

anyway, it's sad ****