Santa Anita wild fires

[jinnyj]

This shows just how close the wild fires are to the racetrack at Santa Anita! I cannot imagine how scary it is to have horses there at the moment judged by how rapidly and randomly the fires are being spread by the Santa Ana winds. Training has been cancelled at present (you'd have to think that the air pollution is going to be horrendous for the horses (as well as people) there.

It was only back in 2017 that wild fires hit the training centre at San Luis Rey Downs (near San Diego) which left 8 barns destroyed and 46 horses were killed. I just pray that they are able to ship the horses out in time if it gets even closer.

A good friend of mine who I shared a house with when I lived over there, lost her entire house and all their property in Pasadena yesterday - utterly devastating.

 

[edgt]

Savage winds there spread one fire area from 350 to 10,000 acres in a matter of a few hours , according to one eyewitness report on RTE radio this morning.
More of us have to worry about snow, a first world problem by comparison.