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I took a little bike ride into the heart of the fire in the Rincon Valley section of Santa Rosa. It was hell. News organizations are welcome to use this footage.

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    • Yah, lots of visual ironies in all the destruction. I thought the family fighting to put the embers in their yard out was pretty poignant. I had to video people from a distance so as to not upset them. The northern half of our neighborhood is just gone, along with a couple other neighborhoods on the ridge and across town. Pretty mind numbing. Lucky that the winds favored us and then died down overnight and are calm today to give firefighters some traction in bringing this mess under control.

  1. We need to stop filling our homes with petroleum products. Recycled plastic bags, as artificial cloth form, is horribly combustible once it gets going. We are creating our own furnaces The fuel is in the fumes. Once critical temperature is reached it is all going up and if you disturb the source it will make things worse. People don’t talk enough about where the fuel is,,, its in the smoke, unconsumed,, waiting for a heat source. Attacking the flame front hinders it from liberating more fuel vapors to feed on.. We’ve changed the fuel dynamic while also placing more emphasis on containment rather than direct assault.

    • The schools are all good. Middle Rincon road escaped damage except possibly the northmost end. It’s hard to tell without driving the streets because in that north area the fire missed a lot of homes and then burned homes next to them hopscotch fashion. Most of the Santa Rosa fires are under control now and everyone in the advisory evacuation zones are breathing a sigh of relief.

    • Trees and bushes have sap and water, that’s why firewood has to dry to be usable. Most of the trees were scorched on their trunks and under branches and most of the bushes and scrub had their leaves burned off. Occasionally a tree would burst into flame with a roar and then immediately subside. See at 3:38. Homes, on the other hand, are dry and when the air around the house is superheated by brush and grass burning, they can catch fire fast.

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