San Diego's Witch Creek Wildfire - Escondido

A homeowner's perspective of the fires ripping through Escondido. From our back porch, we could see a miles long continuous line of fire approaching us.

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• wildfire
• witch
• firestorm
• escondido

[cast0out]

Wow - excellent video, good quality, nice captions and overall excellent direction. I am also in the area - was this shot from the west side of lake hodges? I am also looking from some who has first hand knowledge of when the fire burned the west side of Lomas Serenas. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mstrwiz]

North-west side of Hodges. Panned all the way to the right, you're looking over a nearby ridge, over which is lake Hodges. The night-time shot with the continuous fireline was around 4:30am on Monday.

[mal91766]

Its amazing..four years later, its very green around pamo, ramon, and heading to escondido on the 78....

[raccoon1212]

thats like looking into hell at 1.30

[605249]

im so lucky i was far away from the fire

[funnyguy2894]

thank god its raining down here right now.

[gtellegen]

Hello,

We lost our home in the San Pasqual valley the morning of 10-22 -- on Sunset Hills off of San Pasqual Drive. I really would like to know where you took the photos from.

Thanks, GT

[stuntedcards]

well we know 1 thing 1 of the fires in LA was a 10 year old kid playing with matches and now they are debating if he goes too jail if im correct the parents may have too pay the cost of the fire fighting efforts

[omahablackrose]

That is good to know. Stone Pointe then did NOT burn like some other idiot had told me.

[NormanWaters]

I am working on an investigation for Cal Fire and was wondering if I could get a copy? Email me if you are willing to let me take a look at all of your footage and see the vantage point the video was taken.

[keebscrazy]

Wow thanks for sharing this video. I work a private engine crew out of Oregon, and we arrived 2 days after the deadly fire went through . We use these videos as training tools, so thanks so much for posting. We're all very thankful for the homes that were saved. And we cry a tear every night for the homes that were lost. The people in your communities were very gracious and treated all of us so wonderfully that it was hard to have to leave there. Thanks for that also.

[Adeon55]

Btw, I live in spring valley as well (jamacha blvd) and had to be evacuated from the Harris fire, which burned over much of nearby mt san miguel. Fortunately by the time it had gotten that far, the wind had died down, and they were able to stop it before it got to the base of the mountain to burn any homes there.