It's not impossible, little to nothing looks burnt, but fires behave oddly sometimes. There is a weird partially knocked over power pole in the back I missed and its a bit gloomy and it definitely looks like California. The image does show up on Getty's site so its presumably not just one of the myriad random fakes that show up in in the aftermath on Facebook or Twitter or where ever from someone seeking karma or attention or whatnot. It's just strange a fire is hot enough to spread across the road to a car and then melt it, but leaves an entire orchard untouched not fifteen feet away. A few tress here and there maybe.
The reason the fire was so destructive and unpredictable had to do with the insane and atypical winds on the night it started. My guess, just eyeballing this photo, is that the winds were going from the photographer's front/left to photographer's back/right. That's why the bloom of damaged asphalt is shaped the way it is, pushing towards our POV and away from the car. Which would have kept the grapes safe(ish), as the wind was blowing away.
If you drive through the damaged areas (I've been back twice since the fire, raised there but live in East Bay), in some of them it's not at all uncommon to see completely destroyed buildings close to or next to seemingly untouched buildings or flammable plant life. High winds pushed embers, but not everywhere. Those things that just didn't happen to catch fire from embers could be fine, whereas once the flame *took*, the wind gave it an unlimited supply of fresh oxygen.
Your right, I'm on a bigger monitor and acres of grass straight ahead of the photographer in the distance are burned. Looks like all the green trees, the orchard(probably irrigated) and ones in low lying areas survived nearer the photographer. It's a testimony to how fast it past through the spot.
1. (a) Source + Story + More Photos + Videos: "Photos From the Lake County Valley Fire" by KQED News Staff, published on 14 September 2015 at http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire/
(b) Excerpt from the article "Valley fire evacuees tell of brushes with raging blaze" by Martin Espinoza, published on 13 September 2015: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of
". . . 'It wasn't even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,' said Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin, 65. 'I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.'
Gavin said he was able to save his neighbor's dogs before leaving his home for Middletown on Saturday afternoon. He estimated the fire was traveling 35 miles an hour because it got to Middletown before he did.
'There were flames on the road,' he said. 'That's the closest I ever got to death, and it was scary.' . . ."
(c) Watch "Escaping Anderson Springs during Valley Fire" by mulletFive (https://www.youtube.com/user/mulletFive or [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3E4MqED0BDgtNxlafHTjYg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3E4MqED0BDgtNxlafHTjYg)), published on 13 September 2015 -- "Driving out of Anderson Springs 9/12/15 [12 September 2015] at 8:30 pm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg
Location: California, United States of America
(d) "Valley Fire Update: 3,000 Homeless, Cost Likely 'Hundreds of Millions'" by KQED News Staff and Wires, published on 23 September 2015: https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/23/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county
2. Fires in 2017 in California, United States of America (USA)
(a) Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/76qir5/up_close_hd_video_footage_of_the_santa_rosa_fire/dofww37
(b) "Readers of this web site sent messages, saying the air was electrified, to the point of being visible and affecting their heart beat. This was covered in an earlier report," writes Jim Stone, published in 2017 at http://www.anotherjsserver.com/zu5.html
Additional information, published in 2017 by Jim Stone, in the section titled "Fires in California were not "wild", they were caused." at http://www.anotherjsserver.com/zv1.html
Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com
3. Read "Account of Fred Schmidt" and "Account of Marion Schwaiger-Soyka" in "Vriesland to Trufant Tornado - Eyewitness Accounts" published in "1956 Tornado Outbreak" (3 April 1956 in Michigan, USA) by National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA: #3a at https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/69u7i8/12_june_2004_kansas_united_states_of_america_the/dh9dt6l
4. (a) Huge wildfire in the Bitterroot National Forest, USA, photographed by John McColgan (Fire Behavior Analyst, Alaskan Type I Incident Management Team) on 6 August 2000: [1760 x 1087 pixels](http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-201309-UnitedStatesBureauOfLandManagement-elk-wildfire-Bitterroot-National-Forest-20000806-large.jpg)
Via: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-201309.htm
(b) ". . . The day was Aug. 6 [2000], the Sunday when several forest fires converged near Sula into a firestorm that overran 100,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. Temperatures in the flame front were estimated at more than 800 degrees. Nevertheless, [John] McColgan said, the wildlife appeared to be taking the crisis in stride, gathering near the East Fork of the Bitterroot River where it crosses under U.S. Highway 93.
'They know where to go, where their safe zones are,' [John] McColgan said. 'A lot of wildlife did get driven down there to the river. There were some bighorn sheep there. A small deer was standing right underneath me, under the bridge.' . . ."
Via: "Mystery solved: Forest Service firefighter captured tragedy with digital camera" by Rob Chaney, published on 14 September 2000 at http://missoulian.com/once-in-a-lifetime/article_72ee6080-81a9-59b3-aa35-09d6d4597df0.html
It's weird that the orchard behind isn't burned.
Other than a burned car there's not a single indication of a fire at all. Surely this is just a car that caught fire.
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Could've been started by the car burning. Looks like there could also be smoke behind the orchard but it's hard to tell
All the trees on the mountain behind the house and shop thats behind the orchard are burned. The telephone pole behind the orchard is still on fire.
It's not impossible, little to nothing looks burnt, but fires behave oddly sometimes. There is a weird partially knocked over power pole in the back I missed and its a bit gloomy and it definitely looks like California. The image does show up on Getty's site so its presumably not just one of the myriad random fakes that show up in in the aftermath on Facebook or Twitter or where ever from someone seeking karma or attention or whatnot. It's just strange a fire is hot enough to spread across the road to a car and then melt it, but leaves an entire orchard untouched not fifteen feet away. A few tress here and there maybe.
The reason the fire was so destructive and unpredictable had to do with the insane and atypical winds on the night it started. My guess, just eyeballing this photo, is that the winds were going from the photographer's front/left to photographer's back/right. That's why the bloom of damaged asphalt is shaped the way it is, pushing towards our POV and away from the car. Which would have kept the grapes safe(ish), as the wind was blowing away. If you drive through the damaged areas (I've been back twice since the fire, raised there but live in East Bay), in some of them it's not at all uncommon to see completely destroyed buildings close to or next to seemingly untouched buildings or flammable plant life. High winds pushed embers, but not everywhere. Those things that just didn't happen to catch fire from embers could be fine, whereas once the flame *took*, the wind gave it an unlimited supply of fresh oxygen.
Your right, I'm on a bigger monitor and acres of grass straight ahead of the photographer in the distance are burned. Looks like all the green trees, the orchard(probably irrigated) and ones in low lying areas survived nearer the photographer. It's a testimony to how fast it past through the spot.
Looks to be a 2015ish Honda Accord.
I think it's a 2009/10 Impreza.
You might be right actually.
Wait, a fire melting metal... wonder how quick this will get blamed on the CIA.
1. (a) Source + Story + More Photos + Videos: "Photos From the Lake County Valley Fire" by KQED News Staff, published on 14 September 2015 at http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire/ (b) Excerpt from the article "Valley fire evacuees tell of brushes with raging blaze" by Martin Espinoza, published on 13 September 2015: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of ". . . 'It wasn't even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,' said Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin, 65. 'I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.' Gavin said he was able to save his neighbor's dogs before leaving his home for Middletown on Saturday afternoon. He estimated the fire was traveling 35 miles an hour because it got to Middletown before he did. 'There were flames on the road,' he said. 'That's the closest I ever got to death, and it was scary.' . . ." (c) Watch "Escaping Anderson Springs during Valley Fire" by mulletFive (https://www.youtube.com/user/mulletFive or [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3E4MqED0BDgtNxlafHTjYg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3E4MqED0BDgtNxlafHTjYg)), published on 13 September 2015 -- "Driving out of Anderson Springs 9/12/15 [12 September 2015] at 8:30 pm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg Location: California, United States of America (d) "Valley Fire Update: 3,000 Homeless, Cost Likely 'Hundreds of Millions'" by KQED News Staff and Wires, published on 23 September 2015: https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/23/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county 2. Fires in 2017 in California, United States of America (USA) (a) Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/76qir5/up_close_hd_video_footage_of_the_santa_rosa_fire/dofww37 (b) "Readers of this web site sent messages, saying the air was electrified, to the point of being visible and affecting their heart beat. This was covered in an earlier report," writes Jim Stone, published in 2017 at http://www.anotherjsserver.com/zu5.html Additional information, published in 2017 by Jim Stone, in the section titled "Fires in California were not "wild", they were caused." at http://www.anotherjsserver.com/zv1.html Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com 3. Read "Account of Fred Schmidt" and "Account of Marion Schwaiger-Soyka" in "Vriesland to Trufant Tornado - Eyewitness Accounts" published in "1956 Tornado Outbreak" (3 April 1956 in Michigan, USA) by National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA: #3a at https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/69u7i8/12_june_2004_kansas_united_states_of_america_the/dh9dt6l 4. (a) Huge wildfire in the Bitterroot National Forest, USA, photographed by John McColgan (Fire Behavior Analyst, Alaskan Type I Incident Management Team) on 6 August 2000: [1760 x 1087 pixels](http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-201309-UnitedStatesBureauOfLandManagement-elk-wildfire-Bitterroot-National-Forest-20000806-large.jpg) Via: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-201309.htm (b) ". . . The day was Aug. 6 [2000], the Sunday when several forest fires converged near Sula into a firestorm that overran 100,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. Temperatures in the flame front were estimated at more than 800 degrees. Nevertheless, [John] McColgan said, the wildlife appeared to be taking the crisis in stride, gathering near the East Fork of the Bitterroot River where it crosses under U.S. Highway 93. 'They know where to go, where their safe zones are,' [John] McColgan said. 'A lot of wildlife did get driven down there to the river. There were some bighorn sheep there. A small deer was standing right underneath me, under the bridge.' . . ." Via: "Mystery solved: Forest Service firefighter captured tragedy with digital camera" by Rob Chaney, published on 14 September 2000 at http://missoulian.com/once-in-a-lifetime/article_72ee6080-81a9-59b3-aa35-09d6d4597df0.html
I know this post is years old but correction this point is not actually in middle it’s a bit outside