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Bad fires in San Diego County!!! Call resort before coming

Cathyb

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If you have any timeshare reservations for this next week, call your resort and be sure everything is ok. We have seven huge fires with homes burning right and left -- especially Rancho Bernardo. The winds are horrendous so they cannot fly the airplanes to help put out the flames. Weatherman says another 2 days of same thing!

One of our TV reporters, Larry Kimmell, has lost his home and Del Mar Racetrack is full of animals from inland locations. This is the worse fire in San Diego history.
 
I heard that most of Ramona had been evacuated? Aren't there a few resorts there? Can't remember the names.
 
We have four families (family members) with homes in the area. So far, none of the homes have been affected but all have been evacuated. One family says the fire is within a half mile of their home.

CBS8 has a list of homes that have been taken by the fire so far: http://www.cbs8.com/
 
BevL said:
I heard that most of Ramona had been evacuated? Aren't there a few resorts there? Can't remember the names.
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Yes, the whole town has evacuated. They mentioned Ramona Country Estates, is that the timeshare?
 
Ramona Country estates is a housing area - not the timeshare...
 
The timeshare is San Diego County Estates...but it is located in Ramona. Also, Riveria Oaks Resort.
 
I just flew home from San Diego today. We were at Carlsbad Seapointe Resort for the past four days. We were in San Diego yesterday and rode the train and bus back up to Carlsbad. The smoke was really bad at the Solana Beach station where we caught a bus. Skies were clear in Carlsbad, but you could see the smoke in the distance.

I'm sorry to hear about this for the California people, animals, and land.
 
Too crazy. We have the cars and boat loaded up if we get a mandatory evac call.
 
Fisch said:
Too crazy. We have the cars and boat loaded up if we get a mandatory evac call.
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Been there, done that earlier this year. Put your cars on the street and board up your outside vents so the embers can't get in. Most homes are destroyed from the inside out. STAY SAFE!
 
Regardless of whether the resort is directly affected, you should stay away because of the very bad air quality. I live in the Temecula Valley which is about 30 miles north of Escondido. We have no fires in our area but the air is terrible. I awoke this morning to a thick coat of ash and soot on everything.

You will also be restricted from traveling around.
 
I live in So. Orange County. The air quality is terrible. I live about 5 miles from the Orange County part of the fire. People should stay away from this area for awhile. I heard that the interstate 15 is closed so if people are supposed to go to Lawrence Welk that is out.
 
My long anticipated week at San Clemente Inn (SCI) is/was this week wouldn't you know. San Clemente is sort of an island between the San Diego Fires and the OC fires and the area has seen alot of evacuee's from San Diego which has 300,000 people evacuated from their homes.

SCI mangement called the owners in our units to say that IF we were planning to leave early they've got lots of evacuee's who could use the room. After two nights at the resort, my concious got the better of me and we checked out this morning to make room for those who need it. There was a waiting list this morning for available rooms and at least two seniors waiting there had slept in their cars last night. My home is 90 minutes from the resort and frankly I will sleep better knowing that I'm not taking up space better served by someone in need.

For those who aren't too hot on SCI, know that they are slowly updating the units. We were in 201 and they've nicely refreshed that wing with new paint, carpets, furniture, refaced the cabinets and replaced the sink, counter tops with solid surfaces and have gone to a respectble brown on cream color scheme. There are also new appliances too. Doesn't make one inch more of space but having stayed recently in an older room, the make over is very pleasing.
 
UWSurfer said:
SCI mangement called the owners in our units to say that IF we were planning to leave early they've got lots of evacuee's who could use the room. After two nights at the resort, my concious got the better of me and we checked out this morning to make room for those who need it. There was a waiting list this morning for available rooms and at least two seniors waiting there had slept in their cars last night. My home is 90 minutes from the resort and frankly I will sleep better knowing that I'm not taking up space better served by someone in need.
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That was very nice and considerate of you, I think I would have had to do the same. I live on the east coast, but have been keeping up with the situation. It is so very, very sad. My heart and prayers go out to all of those affected by those horrible fires. I pray that they are out soon.
 
To all those of you affected by the fires I really feel for you.
We have similar blazes nearly every year in Australia and many homes are lost. It is really heartbreaking to see homes go up in flames. It happened to one of our friends a few years ago and you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.

Does anyone know if the fires are near the Marriott Newport Coast Villas?. We are booked in there next year.
 
No fires anywhere near the Marriot Newport Villas but the smoke from the fires east of it in Irvine have pretty much blanketed the area for several days.
 
sage said:
Does anyone know if the fires are near the Marriott Newport Coast Villas?. We are booked in there next year.
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As UWSurfer told you, the fires are nowhere near Newport.

For reference, the only fire that was close to the Pacific was the Malibu fire. All the other fires are inland and away from the coastal areas of CA. But we still see and smell the smoke here.
 
UWSurfer said:
No fires anywhere near the Marriot Newport Villas but the smoke from the fires east of it in Irvine have pretty much blanketed the area for several days.
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We are staying at the Laguna Surf in Laguna Beach and saw the cloud of smoke of the Malibu fire over the ocean on October 21, 2007 at 6.31 PM.

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Yesterday, we saw another cloud of fire coming from the other direction which may be the Santiago fire or yet another one.

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We have to drive home every night and when we reach the end of Laguna Canyon, where the San Diego freeway crosses, we can see the Santiago fire on the ridge of the mountain just like this picture here but from farther away. The ashes and air are bad at home as well as at our resort. Two days ago, we had to stay inside all day and leave the doors and windows closed because of the smoke and ashes flying around and it was very hot.
 
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We just returned from a voluntary evacuation where we went to Orange County to be with family. On the way south on I-5 near Camp Pendleton we saw about six small fires. The streets are littered with dirt and the sky is still smoky but all is ok in Carlsbad :)
 
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