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| | | Author: | 1001bricks  | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 18:57 | | Subject: | Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 407 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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| | | | | Author: | TheCuteGiraffe | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 19:30 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Hope you doing ok.
Hope you (and others nearby) are ok.
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| | | | | Author: | BricxaLot | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 19:51 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | Sorry about that. Hope the fire will be extinguished soon... |
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| | | | | Author: | BricksOfFaith | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 21:06 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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Prayers for you and your family! I hope you guys stay safe!
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| | | | | Author: | BrickOutLoud | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 21:09 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | Hope everyone is safe! |
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 01:05 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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Sorry to hear that.
I hope you and your family are okay.
Hopefully southern France gets some rain soon, sounds like a hot and dry place
right now.
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| | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 06:23 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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Wish everybody around was able to be at a safe place until extinguished.
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| | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 06:48 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Stay safe, hope it’s sorted soon.
In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Stay safe, hope it’s sorted soon.
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Thanks for your wishes all!
We're back.
Fireman are still around, this morning with plane and heli, trucks etc.
Our famous wind "Mistral" is starting to blow again - it can make any fire be
unstoppable, so I guess they make very sure the fires are all fixed.
The fire arrived 500m (0.3 mile) maybe from home/shop, that was a close call...
pfff
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | novabrick | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:25 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Glad that you're house/shop wasn't affected by it. Hopefully it stayed
smoke smell free.
Christian
novabrick-team
In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
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| | Stay safe, hope it’s sorted soon.
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Thanks for your wishes all!
We're back.
Fireman are still around, this morning with plane and heli, trucks etc.
Our famous wind "Mistral" is starting to blow again - it can make any fire be
unstoppable, so I guess they make very sure the fires are all fixed.
The fire arrived 500m (0.3 mile) maybe from home/shop, that was a close call...
pfff
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:36 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, novabrick writes:
| | Glad that you're house/shop wasn't affected by it. Hopefully it stayed
smoke smell free.
Christian
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Yes, it's fine, thank you!
For info, this is a NASA picture.
The red squares are the fires, the red line in the small moutain "la montagnette"
(trees and dry bushes, south of France), and the arrow shows where we are 
Fire started souther, not shown here, but the wind brought it there.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:34 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| The heat is heading our way too, talk of possible highest temperatures ever recorded
in U.K.
In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Stay safe, hope it’s sorted soon.
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Thanks for your wishes all!
We're back.
Fireman are still around, this morning with plane and heli, trucks etc.
Our famous wind "Mistral" is starting to blow again - it can make any fire be
unstoppable, so I guess they make very sure the fires are all fixed.
The fire arrived 500m (0.3 mile) maybe from home/shop, that was a close call...
pfff
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:37 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | The heat is heading our way too, talk of possible highest temperatures ever recorded
in U.K.
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25°C?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:41 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Seems like it most of the time. 
Surprisingly our highest is 38.7C, looking at a possible 40 somewhere here on
Monday, many areas very dry and fires almost guaranteed.
In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | The heat is heading our way too, talk of possible highest temperatures ever recorded
in U.K.
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25°C?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Seems like it most of the time.
Surprisingly our highest is 38.7C, looking at a possible 40 somewhere here on
Monday, many areas very dry and fires almost guaranteed.
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And as it’s regions that are not used to fires, people aren’t careful.
When you’re in the garrigue (scrubland) in south-eastern France, you know (or
are supposed to know…) not to make a barbecue in the forest in summer.
When you go in more northen forests, you don’t think it could ever be a problem…
but it’s one now.
We already had such fires in our nothern forests (Fontaineblau (SE of Paris)
for instance).
The drought problems are compounded with unpreparedness: people, firemen, equipment,
procedures….
I heard some Belgian firemen came to S-E France to learn about drought fires
recently. Wouldn’t surprise me if UK firemen were coming to France or going
to Spain to learn too.
@Sylvain: Seems your mayor wants to sue the SNCF. Good luck to him
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:03 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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The drought problems are compounded with unpreparedness: people, firemen, equipment,
procedures….
I heard some Belgian firemen came to S-E France to learn about drought fires
recently. Wouldn’t surprise me if UK firemen were coming to France or going
to Spain to learn too.
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Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some moor fires again next week.
We are getting warnings about no BBQs on the Peak District and North Yorks Moors.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| The MOD have already set Salisbury plains alight during live firing. 
In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
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The drought problems are compounded with unpreparedness: people, firemen, equipment,
procedures….
I heard some Belgian firemen came to S-E France to learn about drought fires
recently. Wouldn’t surprise me if UK firemen were coming to France or going
to Spain to learn too.
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Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some moor fires again next week.
We are getting warnings about no BBQs on the Peak District and North Yorks Moors.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | The MOD have already set Salisbury plains alight during live firing.
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I suppose MOD is ‘Ministry of Defence’… not ‘Mods vs. Rockers’
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:17 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Correct.
Don’t think mods and rockers got around to using tanks etc but I may be wrong.
Quite a shock when you drive onto parts of Salisbury plains and a tank you hadn’t
noticed the other side of a hedgerow fires shells into the distance, certainly
makes you jump.
In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | The MOD have already set Salisbury plains alight during live firing.
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I suppose MOD is ‘Ministry of Defence’… not ‘Mods vs. Rockers’
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Correct.
Don’t think mods and rockers got around to using tanks etc but I may be wrong.
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But you can start a fire throwing rock(er)s against other rock(er)s too
| | Quite a shock when you drive onto parts of Salisbury plains and a tank you hadn’t
noticed the other side of a hedgerow fires shells into the distance, certainly
makes you jump.
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Oh, haven’t experienced that… just a few helicopter at low altitude at night
hereabouts.
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 07:36 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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Prayers and good wishes for all involved.
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| | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 12:12 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| It was not completely fixed and restarted due to wind...
We also saw 2 fires close to Avignon.
We may be off and evactuated today again.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | It was not completely fixed and restarted due to wind...
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Tangent: I couldn’t find if ‘fix’ is the proper English term or what were the
proper English terms (except for the phrase ‘% contained’).
So, in case someone’s wondering, in French, a fire can be:
— fixé (fixed): doesn’t progress anymore,
— maîtrisé (mastered): most activity is down,
— circonscrit (circumscribed): firemen all around,
— noyé (drowned): firemen still watering the ground,
— éteint (extinguished): firemen go home.
| | We also saw 2 fires close to Avignon.
We may be off and evactuated today again.
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Is your LEGO inventory safe? (Yeah, I only care about LEGO  )
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 13:18 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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Here, maybe this will help:
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| | | | | | | Author: | miskox | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | Here, maybe this will help:
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At least ten of them.
Good luck! Take care!
Saso
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:35 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, miskox writes:
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At least ten of them.
Good luck! Take care!
Saso
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Yep, we'd those, and 5 of these over home half an hour ago:
As what I've heard 2 were sent from Greece.
If this is true, and fireman can help each others and share, then it's an
example.
Personaly I've this one in my office, love it, it can pour water as round
2x2 bricks
At this exact moment it seems temporarily fixed - and anyway it's too late
(before night) for planes/helis, they're going home.
I guess like yesterday we'll had alternate sleep time, I'll take the
night shift...
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 14:44 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Hope you have a quiet and trouble free night.
In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
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At least ten of them.
Good luck! Take care!
Saso
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Yep, we'd those, and 5 of these over home half an hour ago:
As what I've heard 2 were sent from Greece.
If this is true, and fireman can help each others and share, then it's an
example.
Personaly I've this one in my office, love it, it can pour water as round
2x2 bricks
At this exact moment it seems temporarily fixed - and anyway it's too late
(before night) for planes/helis, they're going home.
I guess like yesterday we'll had alternate sleep time, I'll take the
night shift...
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 18:41 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 19:31 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | When understood (after reading the thread) that you and yours were alright, I
went candidly from worried to somewhat sad. “Sad” for your hometown and the surrounding
environment in which it sits... where you and your neighbors call home. It seems
beautiful, your neck-of-the-woods. Though perhaps less so now?
With these wildfires I tell myself, the damage will be merely a memory within
a generation or two.
-popsicle
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I don't know much about southern France, but in some parts of the world,
wildfires are a natural occurrence and forest managers regularly perform
"prescribed burns" to mimic natural forest fires.
That being said, this was obviously not a prescribed burn and the conditions
that created it are not typical.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 22:36 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | Spending time in the areas of California of Chaparral flora, I know of natural
burn environments. But is the area of France Sylvain calls home, such a natural
burn environment?
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I don't know about southern France, but the BrickLink discussion forum is
a natural burn environment, with flame wars popping up every now and then…
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 22:37 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 16, 2022 10:31 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2022 20:03 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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went candidly from worried to somewhat sad. “Sad” for your hometown and the surrounding
environment in which it sits... where you and your neighbors call home. It seems
beautiful, your neck-of-the-woods. Though perhaps less so now?
With these wildfires I tell myself, the damage will be merely a memory within
a generation or two.
-popsicle
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I don't know much about southern France, but in some parts of the world,
wildfires are a natural occurrence and forest managers regularly perform
"prescribed burns" to mimic natural forest fires.
That being said, this was obviously not a prescribed burn and the conditions
that created it are not typical.
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Yes, they did that the last days - they call them counter-fires (?).
Fireman control burn some places so the main fire doesn't find any fuel to
keep on progressing...
I talked to a fireman tonight, fires around seem "fixed" or "managed" (would
say Mr. Picky SylvainLS), but it'll take a whole week for the fires to be
completely drowned, and while this they expect restarts here and there.
A part of our town have no electric power (I learnt that fireman make them "turn
off" so Canadairs can pour water without risking more problems - but sometimes
some poles are destroyed/damaged in the process), and I guess some fiber/dsl
are down.
We're lucky right here.
We've now a fire truck sitting permanently 100m from home for watch, until
it's finished.
For the last hour, I've seen half a dozen trucks passing in front of my window,
a few feet away (those are HUGE trucks).
Problem is; we're in July and it's especially hot, dry, and flammable.
This fire was due to a train wheel spreading sparks; who'd imagine this?
What's the next improbable event?
NASA has interesting scientifical partnership with Japan, Europe, US... to use
satellites imagery to detect abnormaly high temps (fires):
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
This is a fine tool, you can use "Simple" or "Time based" especially while zooming,
playing with layers etc.
It's much much muc freaking impressive.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 16, 2022 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| News...
They made a video with a bit too dramatic music, but anyway, you can what happened
here:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1548309583663271938
We've a group of fireman and trucks "camping" 1 minute from here where there's
a water point.
They've I guess to drown every bit of our little moutain, and later on they'll
also clear the mess, I guess also mainly cutting branches or dead tress, also
to make an eventual fire not be able to develop fast...
It's said it'll take them a full week.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 16, 2022 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
= the firemen, official
Just missing the deep voice saying ‘in your theaters next week’
“Engagez-vous, rengagez-vous, qu’ils disaient.” (Enroll, re-enroll, they said.)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 17:54 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 18:53 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, cycbuild writes:
| | In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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Hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the worst… and the we get storms.
Sylvain has stopped his 1200ha barbecue on the east but there’s been a (for now)
11000ha one on the west (near Bordeaux) since Tuesday.
(1ha = 2.47 acres, don’t know what that makes in square libraries of Congress)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | TheCuteGiraffe | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 19:04 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Yes,
Hope all is well for the people in affected areas.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 19:14 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, TheCuteGiraffe writes:
| | Yes,
Hope all is well for the people in affected areas.
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Only a few injured so far. 14000+ people evacuated. Many tourists there.
Sad thing is there’s two big fires near Bordeaux and one is criminal (the other
is due to a truck).
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 19:18 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, TheCuteGiraffe writes:
| | Yes,
Hope all is well for the people in affected areas.
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Only a few injured so far. 14000+ people evacuated. Many tourists there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRcrsHro6xI
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 19:15 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, cycbuild writes:
| | In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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Hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the worst… and the we get storms.
Sylvain has stopped his 1200ha barbecue on the east but there’s been a (for now)
11000ha one on the west (near Bordeaux) since Tuesday.
(1ha = 2.47 acres, don’t know what that makes in square libraries of Congress)
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I'v found that on the Internets they'd conveniently use either bananas,
boulders or washing machines for scale.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 20:51 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, cycbuild writes:
| | In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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Hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the worst… and the we get storms.
Sylvain has stopped his 1200ha barbecue on the east but there’s been a (for now)
11000ha one on the west (near Bordeaux) since Tuesday.
(1ha = 2.47 acres, don’t know what that makes in square libraries of Congress)
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1200ha is about 0.5776 milliwales, 2962 football pitch, or 0.0004 belgium.
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html
Niek.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 00:41 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | Hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the worst… and the we get storms.
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That sounds terrible. Hang in there, the time will pass. We get occasional hillside
fires where I live. Not being able to go home is like hell for a homebody
| | Sylvain has stopped his 1200ha barbecue on the east but there’s been a (for now)
11000ha one on the west (near Bordeaux) since Tuesday.
(1ha = 2.47 acres, don’t know what that makes in square libraries of Congress)
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We use acres in ketchupland. It means "big"
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 19:11 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, cycbuild writes:
| | In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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Sooo freaking hot, more to come.
Fires didn't reappear, or nothing major.
Part of the firemen will stay this week.
While this, I found this refreshing.
LOVE his channel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEH8RJsYgI
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 00:12 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | Sooo freaking hot, more to come.
Fires didn't reappear, or nothing major.
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That's great! Hopefully it stays that way
Could use one of those for fishing. Calico bass are better than boy scouts at
tying knots!
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Breaking news:
The fire is up again. Sylvain has been evacuated again, with 200 people.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 11:02 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| My thoughts are with him, his family and all others affected.
Let’s hope this crazy weather calms down soon.
Best wishes
Stuart
In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | Breaking news:
The fire is up again. Sylvain has been evacuated again, with 200 people.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | My thoughts are with him, his family and all others affected.
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Thankfully, the fear is more material (houses) than human.
I don’t know why/how the fire took up again. I think it’s all about bad luck:
a gust of wind at the wrong time and the firemen busy elsewhere for a minute
too long.
| | Let’s hope this crazy weather calms down soon.
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Seems the weather is milder there (35°C/95°C) than on the west (44°C/111°F around
the bigger fires near Bordeaux (41°C/106°F here, 200km east of Bordeaux)).
It’s supposed to calm down tomorrow… with wind, storms and hail here in the evening.
Hopefully no winds for Sylvain’s fire.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 12:14 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
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Seems the weather is milder there (35°C/95°C) than on the west (44°C/111°F around
the bigger fires near Bordeaux (41°C/106°F here, 200km east of Bordeaux)).
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And my balcony just went over 50°C (122°F)….
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| | | | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 12:29 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | Breaking news:
The fire is up again. Sylvain has been evacuated again, with 200 people.
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 19:32 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | Breaking news:
The fire is up again. Sylvain has been evacuated again, with 200 people.
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Pff what a day - evacuated at around 3pm, we could come back at 10pm.
The fires were really close (100/200m), we've seen on footage trucks between
home and the fires.
Right now, it's 1:25am, I can see trucks on the montain and the firemen flashlights
making a weird dance. They're manually fixing the tens and tens of fires
in the forest/bush.
Apparently our house was seen on our first TV channel, I've to find this.
We're back with the main PCs which we never quit, too precious.
Thanks all for your support!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | TheCuteGiraffe | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 19:33 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Gosh that's not good.
I saw it on the news last night.
Even here in Australia we are aware of this. I really hope it gets sorted as
I don't want more to suffer or loose anything.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 19:56 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | Even here in Australia we are aware of this. I really hope it gets sorted as
I don't want more to suffer or loose anything.
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You've no right to suffer for anyone, nobody asked you this.
But thank you - and I've seen fires in north Australia, NT and Queensland
too
Please take care of you!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 09:37 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | Breaking news:
The fire is up again. Sylvain has been evacuated again, with 200 people.
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Pff what a day - evacuated at around 3pm, we could come back at 10pm.
The fires were really close (100/200m), we've seen on footage trucks between
home and the fires.
Right now, it's 1:25am, I can see trucks on the montain and the firemen flashlights
making a weird dance. They're manually fixing the tens and tens of fires
in the forest/bush.
Apparently our house was seen on our first TV channel, I've to find this.
We're back with the main PCs which we never quit, too precious.
Thanks all for your support!
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Wow, thanks for the update. I can't imagine what it must feel like and I
hope very much that all turns out okay for yourself and your community.
Best wishes,
Jen
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| | | | | Author: | elias3 | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2022 12:29 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | This afternoon we've been evacuated, fire arrived maybe 1km or less from
where we are
I've heard a merchandise train lost one wheel, or the brakes were blocked,
whatever, the red wheel started a fire in the bushes of a small railway 2km from
here.
700+ fireman are on site, but it's difficult on the small montain, access
is difficult, all the fires aren't extinguished AFAIK.
We're back home, but it's not finished, we may have to evacuate again.
I'll post again when it's safe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montagnette?src=hashtag_click
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All the best Sylvain, hope everything is ok with you and your family.
Stefaan
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