Tea Fire Westmont College

[BookmanJr3]

@AMAURIS966

some people were up at the Tea Garden in the hills above the campus, and some students from somewhere else (not sure which school) and they set a fire up there. It got out of hand and spread down to Westmont. Several buildings in Clark burned down, along with much of the campus.

[AMAURIS966]

how did the fire even start?

[david4shure]

@AMAURIS966 someone forgot to put out their fire after a bonfire or somethin

[chr1s88blue]

smores anybody?

[aznsbm]

I'm from the waterlogged part of Clark S and now I'm home which is like 15 miles away from the Brea fire >.> the thing is following us.

[Manog805]

yea i go there now and we lost Clark F,S,G,M, bauder hall, the quonsa huts by the library, the physics building, old math building, baseball complex, all gone keep us in your prayers please

[ianhorwood]

Wow, sucks about the college. Don't give a shit about those million dollar homes though.

[tobymacbook]

I just got back from Clark, and the upper level of M is destroyed while part of S is burnt and water-logged. I didn't get to see the rest of Clark, but the Physics, Math, and Psychology buildings are all gone, and over a dozen faculty houses are also destroyed.

[Florentinoworkz]

From that camera angle that looks like Clark E to me. Poor old room.

[Q89113]

i graduated Westmont in 1997 and I lived in clark "g". The clark halls dorm is a collection of small buildings which are lettered. most recent info is that 5 of the dozen or so of these small buildings are lost, including the "G" building... so sad... i'm heartbroken

[BarbaraO]

I graduated from Westmont. Clark Building is burned? Oh no.

Hope the students in the gym will be safe and not get smoke inhalation. There must be a lack of air in the gym since there is no electricity for A/C. I heard that the smoke is coming into the vents and the es all around them.

[BlueMoon4959]

Thanks for posting this, huz. I grew up in SB back in the 1960s/1970s, near the Samarkand area. I was in 3rd grade during the Coyote Fire, and remember so many other fires there as well over the years. My heart goes out to all Santa Barbarans right now. I am following the news out of Santa Barbara closely.

[mwp62]

Homes there run from over a million into the tens of millions.