California Wildfire Photos: HuffPost Readers Send In Their Pics

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The California wildfires continue to rage throughout Southern California, with thousands of firefighters at work to stop further destruction.

For those of you on the ground in the affected areas, send us your photos and tell us what you see. Do you have fire photos or pictures of the aftermath? Submit them here.

Here's how it works: hit the participate button, leave your description and mark the location of where your photo was taken by searching for an address in the box on the top right of the map, upload your photo and hit submit.

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Comments

[wadenelson1]

03:18 PM on 09/02/2009

C'mon Huffpo. Can't you make those thumbnails a little larger?

People didn't come to this page for the text.

[DevonTexas]

01:54 PM on 09/02/2009

The news photos show the fire and firefighters at their labor but these landscape pictures really show the huge scale of these fires. Thanks to those who posted.

[TripleF]

02:25 PM on 09/02/2009

Thanks Devon... I have been photographing the Station Fire for the last 5 days... You can see more of my pictures at http://whrrl.com/experience/story/18387210

I appreciate the kind words.

Jon

[phredralf]

12:52 PM on 09/02/2009

Time lapse video of the fires over Los Angeles, Aug. 29th. This represents over 3 hours of real time footage. http://bit.ly/16O1sA

[tssent]

12:30 PM on 09/02/2009

Part 1a
Part 1
I have the best dreams in the world except
that they're not always so logical after I wake up
and think about them. Still, a lot of them are fun
remembering and some of them are even worth retelling.
Here's a pretty good one from the other night.

It was like a movie, appropriately so since the
setting was not only L.A. but was an action thriller
about finally putting an end to those killer California
fires that seem to be getting only worse. It went
like this...

A huge grid of something resembling irrigation pipe
had been laid out all around L.A., up the hills, down
the valleys and into the forests. Mounted atop
the pipe at "x" intervals were massive (and I do mean
massive) "sprinkler" heads. Water to feed the system
was a no-brainer because L.A. has no less than the
entire Pacific Ocean from which to draw water for
the system. This would later solve a second problem
quite by accident, namely a way to use up all that
extra water from our rising oceans. It was the
perfect dream with a storybook ending.

[tssent]

12:30 PM on 09/02/2009

Part 1b

Then it happened. A fire erupted, the biggest
ever in L.A.'s history. Authorities swung into action,
computer-activating a single square of water, the
square surrounding the fire.

Meanwhile, in fantastic Hollywood fashion,
firefighters were parachuted and helicoptered in
along the entire periphery of the square with their
supplies, including fire hoses they attached to the
pipe. They put out the fire on three sides with ease,
but couldn't handle the fourth, so they simply turned
off the valves feeding their hoses and enabled the
sprinkler valves instead. The last of the fire was
soon extinguished. It was amazing.

[tssent]

12:28 PM on 09/02/2009

Part 2
Now, before the fire there had been this great
arguement about how much the system was
going to cost an already bankrupt California,
but then the governor talked the insurance
companies into springing for the system by
cleverly pointing out that in the long run they'd
pay the equivalent, if not more, in claims, so
why not pay less now and be heroes on top
of everything?

And he added pointed out, they could always lobby
the federal and state governments they already
owned and pass a bill that would fund a small army
of "specialists" to walk the line and perform ongoing
maintenance. It worked! The insurance companies
bought the logic and turned their investment into
an enormously lucrative enterprise, paid for by
the simpleton bastards who should have shouldered
the investment in the first place, our stupid
American taxpayers.

As additional "insurance" the governor noted, the
the Aetnas and AIGs and Prudentials of this country
were just "too large to fail". Even if the whole idea
were to fall on its face they could just pass another
bill, this one to bail themselves out.

The dream ended as it should, in a scene at
Universal Studios with filmmakers and insurance
companies crowded around at a large conference
table with their cigars and brandy negotiating a
deal for the movie rights.