Fire is fickle. My BFFs live on the border between South Pasadena and Altadena in a quirky neighborhood of galleries and coffee shops, mom and pop businesses and a bunny museum. All gone now. Their friend Ben had a nice antique store on Lake Avenue which they all thought had - ThreadSky

pjthompson.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Fire is fickle. My BFFs live on the border between South Pasadena and Altadena in a quirky neighborhood of galleries and coffee shops, mom and pop businesses and a bunny museum. All gone now. Their friend Ben had a nice antique store on Lake Avenue which they all thought had

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cmfalicia.bsky.social•44 days ago

South Pasadena and Altadena's borders don't touch. What neighborhood are you talking about?

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

Near Fox's restaurant. Which has burned down.

cmfalicia.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yes Fox burned down on North Lake and Altadena. No that is not on the border of the city of South Pasadena. Those locations are 8 miles apart. Can you please clarify what you mean.

chickalea.bsky.social•44 days ago

Whoa! Something similar happened to a friend in 2007 when so much of San Diego was on fire. Her condo was the only one spared in the complex. Fire is fickle (and so many other things) indeed.

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

Seems like every time there's a big fire there are stories like this. Hard to figure sometimes.

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

burned with all the other businesses on Lake. But here's where the fickle nature of fire comes in. By some miracle, because Ben's shop was next to a very tall building, the fire went up and over his shop. Everything else on the block burned but Ben's. My BFFs themselves live

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

a couple of blocks from Lake in a middle class neighborhood. The firefighters made a stand on their street and saved most of the homes, including my friends' home. The next block over, homes were lost. And Eaton Canyon itself for which the fire is named? Altadena has many

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

affluent neighborhoods, but Eaton Canyon was mostly more modest homes. In the old days, people of color were not allowed to live in the white enclave of Pasadena so they built their homes there and lived in a thriving community for generations. Gone. A trailer park sat atop

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

a ridge in Pacific Palisades: developers repeatedly tried to get rid of it but that community stayed strong and fought off every attempt to evict them. But the fire showed no mercy. I have acquaintances from my work days who lived in PacPal. Some have lost their homes. One in

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

particular, a renowned military scholar, lives alone and no one has been able to contact her. Those close to her are very concerned. No one knows if her house survived. Fire is fickle. And absolutely merciless.

pjthompson.bsky.social•42 days ago

ADDENDUM: The elderly lady scholar mentioned above got out safe but her house was destroyed.

janicessmith.bsky.social•44 days ago

Fire is insane.

pjthompson.bsky.social•44 days ago

It is indeed.

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