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[gaypalmsprings]

2 injured riding out fire in backyard hot tub

The Associated Press • August 30, 2009

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s official says two people tried to ride out the firestorm in Big Tujunga Canyon in a backyard hot tub and were critically burned.

Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday that the pair “completely underestimated the fire” and the hot tub provided “no protection whatsoever.”

The two individuals made their way to firefighters Saturday and were airlifted out by a sheriff’s rescue helicopter.

Whitmore says the two people received adequate notification to evacuate from deputies but decided to stay.

Big Tujunga Canyon is on the southwestern edge of the fire burning in the mountains north of Los Angeles.

Another person narrowly escaped by driving through flames in a truck and was not injured.

[cubrocker]

http://img.youtube.com/vi/dPT7q825gwI/0.jpg

[Devin the Dude]

why did i come to southern california?

[M Sparks]

the hot tub provided “no protection whatsoever.”

I hate when the spokespeople say things like this. Yes, it was idiotic and they should have left. But...if a fire is surrounding you, it's better to be partially submerged in water than not. If nothing else, I'd rather slowly boil to death than burst into flames.

They make it sound like these guys said "Hey, we'll just stay in the hot tub until it passes!" They probably ignored the warnings...which always happens...and then when they got trapped, they climbed in the tub. I would have done the same thing. (Well, I would have left, but you get the idea.)

Around here, when everyone is worried about forest fires, we'll get a massive soaking rain, and then they always put a forest ranger on TV to say "Yeah, it makes no difference. It doesn't help, because we're still in a drought." Dude...if someone flicks a cigarette out of his car today, and it lands in a puddle instead of a patch of dry grass...the rain helped.

[SoulDischarge]

You fucks can figure out bullet trains but not how to prevent your cities from catching on fire every two months. Prioritize.

[BROKENDOLL]

I hate when the spokespeople say things like this. Yes, it was idiotic and they should have left. But...if a fire is surrounding you, it's better to be partially submerged in water than not. If nothing else, I'd rather slowly boil to death than burst into flames.

They make it sound like these guys said "Hey, we'll just stay in the hot tub until it passes!" They probably ignored the warnings...which always happens...and then when they got trapped, they climbed in the tub. I would have done the same thing. (Well, I would have left, but you get the idea.)

Around here, when everyone is worried about forest fires, we'll get a massive soaking rain, and then they always put a forest ranger on TV to say "Yeah, it makes no difference. It doesn't help, because we're still in a drought." Dude...if someone flicks a cigarette out of his car today, and it lands in a puddle instead of a patch of dry grass...the rain helped.
You know how when somebody posts something and it hits a nerve differently than other posts, and you want to sig it, but then...Oh, nevermind, I'm just gonna privately giggle and savior this one! LOL LOL LOL

[suprefan]

You fucks can figure out bullet trains but not how to prevent your cities from catching on fire every two months. Prioritize.

At least the weather is always nice and we dont have to pay for heating oil.

[kitt kat]

You fucks can figure out bullet trains but not how to prevent your cities from catching on fire every two months. Prioritize.

We can't control the rain. Sorry. This is why LA has so many fires---lack of rainfall.

[suprefan]

Actually, you can blame smokers for fires quite a bit. SO QUIT SMOKING WHEN YOU ARE UP IN THE MOUNTAINS HIKING!

[bmack86]

I hate when the spokespeople say things like this. Yes, it was idiotic and they should have left. But...if a fire is surrounding you, it's better to be partially submerged in water than not. If nothing else, I'd rather slowly boil to death than burst into flames.


Not if the flames are larger than the height of your hot tub, you decided to stay in the area, and, assumedly, the hot tub is at least partially flammable. It's just a stupid, stupid, stupid move.

Also, you get set on fire, it'll suck the oxygen out of your lungs and you'll pass out fairly quickly. Boiling won't do that.

[PassiveTheory]

You fucks can figure out bullet trains but not how to prevent your cities from catching on fire every two months. Prioritize.

We havent even figured out the bullet trains, just convinced the idiotic masses that an expensive shiny piece of shit is worth more to the average CA taxpayer than equal rights.

[BROKENDOLL]

At least the weather is always nice and we dont have to pay for heating oil.
I don't know about 110*+, being nice, but I do agree about the oil...I've got some sitting outside as we speak while I crack open the eggs to fry in it!

[humanoid]

We havent even figured out the bullet trains, just convinced the idiotic masses that an expensive shiny piece of shit is worth more to the average CA taxpayer than equal rights.

in truth, I feel the bullet trains are a fantastic long term idea, but just a very poorly timed move when in the depths of a recession


I don't remember getting the option to vote, shiny piece of shit vs. gay rights

[BROKENDOLL]

in truth, I feel the bullet trains are a fantastic long term idea, but just a very poorly timed move when in the depths of a recession


I don't remember getting the option to vote, shiny piece of shit vs. gay rights
That wasn't an option for fear they would confuse "shiny piece of shit" for a vibrator, and the idiots that feared same sex marriage certainly aren't the vibrator types. I mean, look how confused they got over the marriage thing!

[gaypalmsprings]

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_mar2005/HotHotTub.jpg

[BROKENDOLL]

Great! Burnt hot dogs and burnt buns! Doesn't get much stupider than that!

[TomAz]

Around here, when everyone is worried about forest fires, we'll get a massive soaking rain, and then they always put a forest ranger on TV to say "Yeah, it makes no difference. It doesn't help, because we're still in a drought."

I am convinced that it is in someone's job description that they have to say "we're still in a drought" regardless of the weather outside.

[algunz]

During the Escondido fires a few years ago, a couple apparently survived the fast moving flames by jumping in their pool as the fire passed swiftly over head. They were in their pool for at least a few hours as they watched their house burn down a few yards away.

Urban legend? I don't know, but it's a cool story.

[shakermaker113]

They make it sound like these guys said "Hey, we'll just stay in the hot tub until it passes!" They probably ignored the warnings...which always happens...and then when they got trapped, they climbed in the tub. I would have done the same thing. (Well, I would have left, but you get the idea.)

you make a fair point. the reporter put quite a slant on it. but then again, they may have actually said "Hey, we'll just stay in the hot tub until it passes!". they could just be really dumb.

[Alchemy]

M Sparks gives people too much credit, and gives boiling over burning too less credit. Who in the hell would pick a slow boiling to death over a quick burning to death? Also, if you are in a fire, you are supposed to escape it. A hot tub probably has wood around it, you'll probably breathe in a lot of smoke, and you most certainly might die. The right choice would have been to run away. Those guys were lucky to have lived.

[obzen]

I hope that hurricane approaching Baja comes creeping right up and pounds the shit out of California for a week.








Fuck this summer shit.

[marooko]

You fucks can figure out bullet trains but not how to prevent your cities from catching on fire every two months. Prioritize.

Uh, where's this bullet train that's been figured out?

[humanoid]

Uh, where's this bullet train that's been figured out?

several other countries, but not here yet

[TomAz]

the airline industry lobbies hard against any high speed rail discussions in the US.

[TomAz]

PS I did not make that up.

In 1991 the Texas High Speed Rail Authority awarded a 50-year high speed rail franchise to the Texas TGV Corporation - a consortium of Morrison Knudsen (USA), Bombardier (Canada), Alstom (France/UK), Crédit Lyonnais (France), Banque IndoSuez (France), Merrill Lynch (USA), and others. Texas TGV won the franchise after more than two years of litigation instigated by a rival consortium backing German ICE technology.

The plan was to connect the "Texas Triangle" (Houston - Dallas/Fort Worth - San Antonio) with a privately financed high speed train system which would quickly take passengers from one city to the next at prices designed to compete with or beat other transport options. This was the same model Southwest Airlines used 20 years earlier to break in to the Texas market where it served the same three cities.

Funding for the project was to come entirely from private sources, since Texas did not allow the use of public money. The original estimated cost was $5.6 billion, but the task of securing the necessary private funds proved extremely difficult.

Southwest Airlines, with the help of lobbyists, created legal barriers to prohibit the consortium from moving forward and the entire project was eventually scuttled in 1994, when the State of Texas withdrew the franchise.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_States#Texas

[obzen]

It makes sense,as it were.

[humanoid]

PS I did not make that up.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_States#Texas

I believed you Tom

[canexplain]

I wonder if there is any indication the fires might have been started by the drug cartels again to stymie their competition. Cr****