Witch creek fire San Diego

[mycatwilatackyou]

I was here that day too , I lived on Hwy 78 for 10 years . Everything I owned destroyed in minutes , it was a monster ....

[Mister807]

I was actually in this fire. We lived in this valley right behind the Camel farm where the giant arena and mare motel was at . the fire had went on the other side of OJH and the other side of Hwy 78 and then came straight for us

[PlasticStarProdigy]

as morbid as this sounds, this was a good time. not the fire, but evacuating was fun. i stayed with my family and friends and no one i knew got hurt.

[saiyanwarrior1326]

damn SDG&E 

[k1Ss0fdEAtH]

pure blackness (no rasism intended) but that is just scary :((

[mal91766]

God, watching this breaks my heart.

[legozombie4000]

San Diego is now ready to unleash its new firefighting weapon...the erickson skycrane, which is used in Australia.

[mycatwilatackyou]

I lived 2 miles west of here right on 78 , I lost my house that day

[alostmuffin]

@mycatwilatackyou sorry to hear about your loss.

[Overrwatcher]

I didn't see the flame itself, yet I did see the smoke from it...

While heading to Orange County.

What was usually 1 hour was 3 1/2 hour.

[sunsetreptiles]

i was fighting this fire i didnt sleep for a week. but it did keep you on your toes. Im sorry about your aunts house baball we did the best we can.

[guitarman84guile]

That really is the money shot. When it looks like night time until you zoom out, you realize just how bad it was!

[SA3Tony]

I live in Rancho Bernardo, and I have to say, it's a once in a life time experience, it was incredibly frighting. waking up at 4 in the morning, looking outside and to see a massive fire burning at Lake Hodges, quickly spreading to many homes.

After everything though, the community really supported each other, and was there for one another...it's simply incredible.

[555MARCUS666]

good thing i live in "da hood" we dont have all these open fields and shit. not thats bad, its cool because living in the city sucks.

but they should have the city maintain that shit. but oh wait. WE DONT HAVE MONEY.

[surfordie82]

Thinking about Witch Creek still makes me sick.I live in RB. And why r people driving towards that mother?

[reshiotu]

Im in escondido off the 78 E entrance and I had to go to the mall to pick up my aunt from work, they called her in to seal large doorways for precautions. Sears still didnt smell to fresh after that... I remember driving there was so creepy...

Large tumble weeds, red sky, bleak roads, sirens everywhere, news repoters at the 78, shadows of the flames in the smoke... yea i still remember it cuz it reall freaked me out. Didnt get evacuated though, just a warning that we might.

[stubbyweaver]

My home was the third one to burn in this fire. All that was left of my house was a chimney.

[bballcutie21]

this happened 4 years ago during the same time [end of october] we had to get evacuated along with my whole family...we all went to my grandmas house in mira mesa and it was SUPER crowded our house didnt get burnt down but my aunt's house did and they have 4 boys...a dog and a cat and now they can only afford a really small condo and i went to the old house and EVERYTHING was gone except for a chair...my aunt was crying...it was really sad :(

[riviniust]

Old julian hwy at hwy 78 looking East

[RLewisH]

I was driving past there a few days after the fire, but I didn't know the Witch fire was THAT BIG!!!! DAMN! Harris was the last one burning I know..

[funnyfarm7]

This was only about 30 to 60 minutes after it started by the looks of it.

[cardiffchris]

old julian hwy at little page road?

[littleboo9000000]

i thought it wuz night time, but wen u zoomed out wow dude that was just behingd da hill hope ur ok

[RLewisH]

It's weird, I think only 7 people died over all, most being immigrants. I was in this fire but my house didn't burn but it was hell trying to get my pets ready to leave if it was mandatory. It smelled :P

[littleboo9000000]

wen i saw one of tha fires i started havin asthma and cryin and stuff i felt like i wuz bot to die

[RLewisH]

I have asthma to so I couldn't stay outside for any more than 3 minutes at a time, even that was bad.

[inachu]

the blackest part of the smoke was like how it was stretching from all direction horizon to horizon back in 1988 durring the yellowstone fire. It was noon but so much smoke it felt like 12 midnight. The toughest but also the most fun/exciting fire I ever fought.

[Dante38488]

at :34 the car going like 120miles per hour lol

but thats wierd

[runescaperr1]

holy mother of crapping shit that smoke covered half the world and i bet u it could be seen from miles or blocks away thank god u guys were ok or u guys will be ashes in floor and firefighters trying to pick the ashes offf the floor thou it was a little cool scary too and did anyone died lol

[roundie555]

y it called witch >

[funnyguy2894]

the fire was started in a place called witch creek

[Bibleslasher666]

wow, look at that smoke

[evryusernamistakn]

i liv there and it was like right next to my house..... huge evacuation, but firefighters worked hard

[turtlewings]

My GOD.

This is stuff they don't show on the news. This must have been so frightening to see...

[riviniust]

click on more info next to ABOUT THIS VIDEO, thanks.

[skyler2dope]

lulz

[TsukiAeii]

woops i**

[kloveshack]

does anyone know where this footage was taken? I lost my home off of arjo lane (off of black canyon) but have no sense of direction so not sure if this is near there.  thanks.

[TsukiAeii]

look at all that smoke

yea, it thought this was at night too.. wow!

[griceldaamiga]

omg the soun make it worst for me to see this, hope your ok.

[eliteasthmatic]

omg i thought it was nighttime

[kaorumphc]

what is a witch fire... can someone explain me?

[meilee44]

They call it Witch Fire because it started at Witch Creek, west of Santa Ysabel according to what I read in a news article. Horrible devastation!

[kaorumphc]

thank you so much

[sdbydesign]

hope you are doing ok

[chip04444fallen]

this is horrible my house almost got burned