[pct-l] MUD FLOWS IN anf

[Stephen Adams]

Not much you can do about it, there will always be folks making mistakes.  Just be glad when you get in trouble that someone comes to your aid.  And now there will be quite a few less stupid people who will check on conditions next, or let's hope so.  Some lessons are learned best the hard way.  
There is a city with millions of people from the hips of the mtns to the ocean and strecthing for quite a few miles latterally.  Just be glad it was only as many as it was.  
On Dec 12, 2009, at 7:16 PM, ed faubert wrote:

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> So the 90 plus fire dept folks  have to go out and help these stupid people who got caught in the mud.... shame on there A holes and they should have their drivers permits taken away.... half of them probaly had their kids with them too.....
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> --- On Sat, 12/12/09, canoeman at qnet.com <canoeman at qnet.com> wrote:
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> From: canoeman at qnet.com <canoeman at qnet.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] MUD FLOWS IN anf
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 6:12 PM
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> 
> I guess this is another reason why hikers should stay out of the San Gabriel
> mountain staion fire area.
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> from the los angeles timers article tonight.
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> "Firefighters worked today to rescue people from 90 vehicles stuck in the mud
> along a 12-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway as the National Weather
> Service issued a flash-flood warning for the Station fire burn area in the San
> Gabriel Mountains.
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> Local law enforcement officials reported flash flooding with mud and debris flow
> on Angeles Crest Highway about eight miles north of the 210 Freeway.
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> [Updated at 5:50 p.m.: Firefighters were able to extricate all but 20 of the 90
> stranded cars, authorities said.
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> The remaining 20 cars, mostly near Newcomb’s Ranch restaurant, were abandoned as
> firefighters, mostly on foot, rescued the occupants, L.A. County fire officials
> said.]
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> At 3:15 p.m., firefighters responded to reports of scattered vehicles caught in
> mud flows between mile markers 27 and 39 on the highway, said Capt. Frank
> Reynoso of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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> The road was closed earlier as a rainstorm bore down on the area, but some
> motorists made it through just before mud descended from the wildfire-denuded
> mountains, making stretches of the highway impassable.
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> “We are in process of completely sealing it off,” Reynoso said. No injuries had
> been reported.
> 
> Eighty-five firefighters were dispatched to the stuck vehicles while law
> enforcement officials directed traffic away from the area, Reynoso said."
> 
> canoeman
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