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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Los Angeles Wildfires     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 4:21 AM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) These have been mentioned indirectly in a couple of other threads, but I thought I'd start a specific one. Brutal. Terrifying. I hope everyone out there manages to stay safe, although I see there have been about half a dozen deaths so far, not to mention the appalling loss of homes. Keep us posted here if you can, you people out there.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 4:45 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Yes. Terrifying stuff and becoming a regular thing every year now. I saw Steve Guttenberg on the news offering advice and help to any other residents and James Woods (marked as Wood by the reporter and on the caption) breaking down in tears at the sheer stress of it all.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 8:27 AM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) Praying that the fires can be stopped and abated. It is frightening and scary to read about -- and one of my co-workers has best friends with two small children who were on vacation and just learned that their house is totally gone. My co-worker showed me a video they'd been sent by neighbors to show just a vacant, smoking, lot basically. Nothing left. They had their pet dogs with them, but all they now own is what's in their luggage. The kids' school was wiped out, all of their neighborhood was wiped out, and there is no longer any kind of downtown area left. Just so horrific that it's numbing. Hope any of you in the area are safe. Have we heard from Driving Miss Daisy and another other Californians? I know that Intrada is in Oakland -- not yet threatened. Are the Varese offices anywhere in the impacted areas? Bruce Kimmel is reporting that he is OK and that the winds died down this AM. So thoughts and prayers to all impacted.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 8:34 AM     By:   msmith   (Member) I live in Hollywood and was scared last night. A fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills behind the Hollywood Bowl. The TV news stated that it could spread to other famous places the Magic Castle and Chinese Theatre. Fortunately, as of this morning, that fire is under control. But you never know when and where a fire can break out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 8:50 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Scary stuff when whole areas are a tinderbox. Hope they get the fires out ASAP.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 8:56 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) So sorry for everyone who lost homes and businesses. They got lucky last night because the winds died down enough so they could go back to dropping water from the air. If not the fire would've raged on.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 12:43 PM     By:   eriknelson   (Member) An article in the Washington Post told of an unnamed film composer who lost his home, including his two Steinways and all of his sheet music. Terrible.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 12:51 PM     By:   governor   (Member) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/08/wildfires-los-angeles-disaster-la/    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 2:22 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The Blade Runner aesthetic, unfortunately.    Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 2:58 PM     By:   Nightingale   (Member) Actor Bo Svensson posted on Facebook his home in Pacific Palisades is lost. Add that to the devastating casualty list.    Posted:   Jan 10, 2025 - 6:55 PM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) Our house was struck by lightning during a superstorm in August of 2004. We were not home but were located at the 4-H Fair with our kids and were driven home by the State Police. The house was fully engulfed when we arrived and there were so many emergency vehicles on our narrow street that we had to walk to our house. There is no comparison between what we went through and the utter tragedy that is befalling the citizens of Los Angeles county. However, one thing I recall is the cold fear our neighbors experienced at the possibility the fire would spread to their homes. We live in a small lake community where the houses are close together. We all have large front and back yards but the side yards are narrow. We are fortunate to have 6 fire districts in our town and three responded that day along with one across the state line. Two spent hours hosing down our neighbors' homes while our house was burning. Live wires kept the firefighters at bay for some time. Another big concern was the fire spreading to the many trees in our yard since the fire burned from the roof down. My neighbors still talk about how lucky they were. We were lucky too. The people of LA county have not been that fortunate. We were able to rebuild. I am heartbroken at the loss these people are suffering and worried about how they are going to salvage their futures. Please donate to the Red Cross and see if your employer has a matching donation program. Mine does. If you find an organization that is accepting donations for the LA fire victims, run it by Charity Navigator to verify. We are our brother's keeper.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 4:28 AM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Juliet Rózsa is in Encino (edit - Sherman Oaks actually). She recently posted on Facebook that things are getting very risky. I imagine she might have to evacuate soon. The scale of this thing is immense.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 8:08 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The saddest thing about these wildfires is that they could have been significantly less than what they have become. I hope that any and all FSMers who may be affected by this can check in and let us know they are safe.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 2:30 PM     By:   TJ   (Member) Thousands of homes lost, and still lots of burning. KABC hasn't bothered to go to commercial for much of recent days. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 3:46 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Santa Ana winds 80 mph in January Something's off-kilter in this world of ours.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 3:47 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) An article in the Washington Post told of an unnamed film composer who lost his home, including his two Steinways and all of his sheet music. Terrible. Alex North had a home in Pacific Palisades. I wonder if it is gone now.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2025 - 9:28 PM     By:   Amer Zahid   (Member) It's horrific and the devastation will impact the industry. Many people will take years to rebuild their lost homes. I'm just bewildered how fast it has happened and yet there were no real infrastructure to proactively halt the spread. Last minute retraction of insurance policies and lack of water brigade contingency is another strategic failure. Lessons to be learnt from all this. I think other States need to fall in support before this engulfs the entire Los Angeles community as we know.    Posted:   Jan 13, 2025 - 9:28 AM     By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member) My nose itches. Pray for my nose.    Posted:   Jan 13, 2025 - 5:47 PM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) This thread was started with good intentions. I was hoping that the comments would continue to reflect the intent of the op and so far it was going that way. It would be nice if sarcastic comments were made elsewhere on the board, leaving this thread for members who want to keep it as intended.    Posted:   Jan 13, 2025 - 9:42 PM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) Bad things happen every day. And then something like this comes along and words can't even begin to convey the horror and despair. But then I see examples of what real bravery and courage look like right now and it reminds me that, for the most part, human beings kick ass.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Los Angeles Wildfires    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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