Southern California "Fish" fire (Fish Canyon, Duarte)

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Just some pics from my front yard. First day of summer and hottest on record.





A walk up the street:




Had my bug out bag ready with wife and Lynxsy (our beloved cat) in hand.
Looks like we are good as of now.
 
Wow! that's getting pretty close for comfort. Didn't watch the news today, but seems there are a few fires around here. It was 115 degrees in my part of socal.
 
Stay safe, socal.... Saw that this morning mandatory evacuations were ordered. 5400+ acres and 0% contained as of an hour ago.
 
Thanks guys :thumbup:

We are fine. Thank God no homes burned (yet) and the fire is burning West of my location and is being attacked hard by air resources and ground crews.
Hopefully it gets fully doused soon.
 
Fish canyon fire and others are making it to local news here. Stay safe and best to all.

Ontario Canada.
 
Hope all remains well for you.
 
I'm west of you in Monrovia and have been watching since day one. I heard that the evacuation has been lifted for 500 homes, but not everybody. Had a bear on our street last night. I hope it gets put out before it gets to Trask Scout Camp.
 
They get all the way down to the 210 every so often. The deer get down to Huntington and we've had a few on our street. Expect to see more wildlife in your area now. Monrovia Canyon has bears every trash day eve. We drive up there to see them every so often. We've also seen them at Canyon Park. That is the most common place for sightings. They are fun to watch! Do you get the buzz worms (rattlesnakes)? We don't, if we did, we'd move. Pronto!
 
I thought about that too. They are going to come down due to the fire.
Haven't seen any rattlers but lots of lizards and racoons and a fox once.
2 racoons were fighting in my garden and destroyed one of my prized pepper plants 😡
 
Raccoons destroy everything. They even roll back new sod. Animal control won't bother to come out and it is illegal to trap/kill them. We have had whole families climb up and down our lemon tree and onto or off of the roof. Our biggest problem is speeders. Lamborghinis and Ferraris tend to go faster at night. We get the odd Bentley or Rolls going by as well. We feed the Bradbury entrance so we get to see a lot of expensive cars. We have more lizards than I can count, but they don't do any harm. Coyotes appear around 4 a.m. and there are no stray animals of any kind on our street. There is plenty of wildlife to be had here. The horse/bike/ walking/exercise trail that runs along Royal Oaks also has Coyotes on it and the odd rabbit.
 
Eric J said:
I'm west of you in Monrovia and have been watching since day one. I heard that the evacuation has been lifted for 500 homes, but not everybody. Had a bear on our street last night. I hope it gets put out before it gets to Trask Scout Camp.
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socalknifecollector said:
I thought about that too. They are going to come down due to the fire.
Haven't seen any rattlers but lots of lizards and racoons and a fox once.
2 racoons were fighting in my garden and destroyed one of my prized pepper plants 😡
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Knew there were bears, but in some 45 years of living in various places along the base of the San Gabriels, I never saw one. Not even when hiking, which I used to do a fair amount of. When I lived in San Dimas it was not unusual to see coyotes roaming south of the 210.

To the list of the inhabitants of the San Gabriel mountains, don't forget to add tarantulas.

At one time we lived in a new development in the hills in La Canada. There was chaparral both upslope and below the houses. The summer of the first year, we discovered we were directly in a migration route for the critters. Over the space of a couple of nights hundreds of them migrated through and over the development. I say over, because if they came to a stucco wall, they would climb up it, then cross the roof, then down the other side. I know because I stayed up and watched them. The development was so new that the window screens hadn't all been installed. A couple of residents, us among them, apparently had windows in exactly the wrong place. So up the wall and in through the second story window they came. We found several of them in the house. They aren't particularly aggressive and their bite is harmless; but they are a startle to find in the bedroom.
 
1SHOT1KILL,
Nob Hill is 394 miles North of my location.

Yup, I've seen the big hairy spiders and scorpions in our area.
Bradbury was the most expensive zipcode according to Forbes magazine one year. There is a house a mile from us listed at 78 million dollars. Average is 5 million.
 
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