- March 15, 2022
This really was a very strange firestorm. The palms survived, the power lines and many trees survuved, but 90 percent of the buildings in town burned, 17,000 in 6 hours. CalFire said the flames travelled horizontally in the big Santa Anna wind that drove the conflagration. Expect surprises, our climate today is no where near what it once was. These fires, according to CalFire, are burning 400 degrees hotter.