Upon my very first viewing of the fire on TV earlier this evening and hearing it was in the Bay Area I automatically thought it was a Diablo Wind-driven fire as it was clear it was a wind-driven Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire running through a heavily-vegetated neighborhood that looked like it was in the East Bay.
Upon hearing it was over on the Peninsula I was sort of surprised and then when I caught the first glance of the dancing 200-foot high flame that was clearly fixed to a single spot I had an immediate flashback to that 200-foot tall dancing flame coming out of the roiling water coming up through the crack in the middle of Rinaldi Ave in Northridge in the morning of the Northridge Quake in 1994.
At that point I immediately recognized this was neither a brush fire in the conventional sense nor a plane crash but an urban firestorm triggered and sustained by a gas main failure and exacerbated by strong winds.
Kimmer
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:38 PM, <Fizzboy7@aol.com> wrote:
This is eerily close to the type of destruction a firestorm from a wildfire or brushfire would cause. Same time of year too. WEIRD!
JasonIn a message dated 9/9/2010 11:30:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, kimnoyes@gmail.com writes:The latest from various sources:
120 homes damaged and 53 destroyed
one confirmed fatality with possibly two others
dozens injured with critical burns to several people
the disaster area is in a microclime known as the "San Bruno Gap" and is highly wind-prone which contributed to fire spread
From my own knowledge: NTSB has primary responsibility for the investigation of this incident as they do all pipeline mishaps
Kimmer
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