# PAGING QUEEN BRUIN and any other Southern California Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021 "2007-10-25T20:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/21 "2007-10-26T04:51:39Z")
Reporting from Carson (Baja Compton) with nothing more than a fine coating of ash all over everything. An article in the LA Times explained that no matter which way the wind is blowing there is a sort of funnel effect that draws smoke down to Long Beach. Well, Long Beach is about two miles from me, and all that smoky air sort of cruised through my neighborhood on the way to LB. Sunset was spectacular yesterday. Just a glowing red ball slowly sliding down to the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/22 "2007-10-26T08:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] City of San Diego. I’m about 35 miles from both the Harris fire and the Witch Creek fire, and the other ones are even further away. As I stated over in my thread, I’m about a mile from Qualcomm Stadium, which is probably the busiest evacuation center at this point, so I think I’ll be OK. (ETA: I did pick up a couple of filter masks today and I plan on doing some volunteer work at the Q tomorrow.) The air is horrible down there, but my house is almost straight up from there (Mission Valley to Serra Mesa) and the air quality and dirtiness comes and goes. I think I can vaguely tell which way the winds are taking the nearest fires by walking into my garage and seeing if it smells like smoke. That seems to change every few hours. **Encinitas** , who actually lives in Encinitas, has said she’s OK. The Witch Creek fire is just one town away (Rancho Santa Fe), though. [/QUOTE] Encinitas is on the coast. it’s next to Carlsbad. The Witch Creek fire in near Escondido. It’s actually closer to Poway. BIL in in Palomar Med Center, in Escondido. He said it’s pretty safe there, so far. I lived in Vista, for 10 years, so I know the area pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/23 "2007-10-26T19:06:56Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] Encinitas is on the coast. it’s next to Carlsbad. The Witch Creek fire in near Escondido. It’s actually closer to Poway. BIL in in Palomar Med Center, in Escondido. He said it’s pretty safe there, so far. I lived in Vista, for 10 years, so I know the area pretty well. [/QUOTE] I’m quite familiar with where Encinitas and Escondido are. I’m also 100% positive that a portion of Rancho Santa Fe, the “one town away” I mentioned, has burned. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/24 "2007-10-26T20:03:43Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I’m quite familiar with where Encinitas and Escondido are. I’m also 100% positive that a portion of Rancho Santa Fe, the “one town away” I mentioned, has burned. [/QUOTE] I understand, but Rancho Santa Fe is one town away from Escondido, not Encinitas. It’s on I-15. Here’s a [map](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-102606-me-fire-g,1,6092714.graphic?coll=la-headlines-pe-california) of the fires. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/25 "2007-10-26T20:10:36Z")
Escondido is to the EAST of Rancho Santa Fe. Encinitas is to the WEST. fetus is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/26 "2007-10-26T20:14:45Z")
Encinitas is also about 5 miles closer to Rancho Santa Fe, according to Google Maps. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/27 "2007-10-26T20:17:55Z")
In case what I meant is not entirely clear, both Escondido and Encinitas are next to Rancho Santa Fe, but on opposite sides. The Witch fire was large enough to burn all the way through parts of Escondido, through RSF and was nearing Encinitas (some parts of which were evacuated) when the winds changed. My BIL lives in a ‘safe’ part of Encinitas and we were all watching the fire very closely. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021/28 "2007-10-27T00:28:54Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Encinitas is also about 5 miles closer to Rancho Santa Fe, according to Google Maps. [/QUOTE] I humbily beg your pardon. You’ve been right all along, and I was wrong. I was corrected by my friend who lives in Encinitas today. She called to say everyone in the office escaped unscathed. The had to close the office on Monday because of smoke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paging-queen-bruin-and-any-other-southern-california-dopers/424021.md?page=1)