San Diego FireS

now I know why no one from the east coast or even in Northern California called me to make sure I wasn't burning up in the fires - because the National and local news outside of SD are really only focusing on the Malibu fires of Los Angeles! Even my friend in Los Angeles says they are barely mentioning what's going on in San Diego! Well world, although Kelsey Grammar has been evacuated and this is serious national news - I also want to let my faithful friends know that I am FINE and I am not burning up or in the line of fire at all. I am at least 15 miles away from the fires and there are also a few canyons in between me and the fires. See the map below - I am in where all the yellow freeways come together - so in San Diego proper. It's very hard to breath - we are all coughing and sneezing - burning nasal passages - the air is dusty.

It's not just the luxury homes of celebrities that are burning up - it's also luxury homes of the non-famous in San Diego. And in San Diego- Chula Vista and towns near the Mexican-US border are being evacuated also - so even more proof this is just affecting more than the super rich and famous.

You can read my other thoughts about the racial class politics of San Diego fires here, National news coverage of SD fires here, distortion of wildfires here, emphasis of LA over SD here, and what a Sociologist would do during a fire here. this was photo overlay was created by tim



1. San Diego Fire - Now in Spring Valley -, 2. San Diego Fire - Fire Jumping Canyons, 3. San Diego Fire on Day #2, 4. San Diego Fire on Day #2 - Power and Telecomm Lines Burning Up

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