"Big fan" noise heard when the winds had calmed in Altadena. He also stated "martial law" which I had not heard previously. Q 316 "Martial law starting the 11th"
Danny Cocke
@DannyCockeMusic
I wanted to share my personal experience during the Eaton fires in Altadena, California. And some of the weirder elements I felt or noticed about it.
A little pre-setup first.. Just to tie in some of the strangeness about the fire night. It was all so unreal. And it’s already been all so unreal.
Around Christmas, we had the “chemical fog” day. I noticed a weird smell and weird fog. Then later saw online the rest of the country and few other countries also had that same chemical fog. I got a nasty cough and sore throat right after too. Yay.
But that day overhead, I heard what sounded like a massive jet engine or the biggest fan sound you could possibly imagine. Directly overhead blowing sound. The sound wasn’t moving across the sky or making any doppler sound effect like a moving plane. Just static overhead for a good 30 minutes then faded. It boggled my mind!
Now on the night of the fire (Also my birthday on the 7th! Yay!) We stayed up on pins and needles as every neighborhood zone was being evacuated one by one. Ours was one of the last that hung on the ‘get ready’ zone until 5:00am but we bailed about 30 minutes before that.
The winds all night were the most intense thing I’ve ever heard.. literally sounded like demons were thrashing everything. Violent, scary even. I’m a pretty battle hardened soul.. 2 time stage 4 cancer survivor and all.. but even I had a tinge of fear from it all. My wife and I were in prayer all night. I was singing to the wind and fires to calm, please!
Also strangely, the day of the 7th, we also noticed and took this photo of the massive weirdest cloud coming over head. Something you don’t get at the same time as at that time 40mph Santa Ana winds. My wife made a ghostbusters meme about it lol. Winds were already hammering that whole day too. Spooky. And then the fire started around 6pm that evening..
From the fire start and on, I started getting super on it. Packing up, getting ready, getting cats ready. Keeping an eye on Watch Duty. I thought there is NO way the fire could mow down that many streets and houses. NO WAY. But out of precaution and a very eerie feeling we got alert.
I kept checking on the fire outside all night. I could see it from my yard on the mountain side right at Eaton Canyon.
The night sky had been crystal clear. Wind slamming, but super clear air. Really clear visibility on the fire.
Around 2am, I went out and the winds had died way down. Almost stopped. But I heard what sounded like that GIANT FAN sound again. Same one I heard during Christmas week. Massive. Static blowing sound. Not the roiling and undulating chaotic sound of intense winds. It sounded like blowing down from the mountain like a giant fan and only around the mountain. Not at all by me. It was unusual and bizarre.
Then around 3:30 I went out and had ZERO visibility. I live a ways off from the fire epicenter. But when I went outside it was like a fucking Game Of Thrones level wall of smoke incoming. Zero visibility beyond 1000 yards. In less than one hour, that fire on the mountain (which is about a 5-10 minute drive up the hill from my house), had mowed down about 16+streets. Over some pretty wide intersections and open space, all the way down to the literally the end of my street by the end of it.
Later that morning, our neighborhood text chain reported our street was SPARED. Thank GOD!!!!! Literally JUST our street. Everything pretty much else in Altadena was turned to ash. A few random houses here and there, but driving through (videos below) and according to Jesse Waters reported a few dozen homes only remain in Altadena, which makes me one of the somehow lucky dozen. I can’t even begin to believe what just happened and all the feelings hitting me.
https://x.com/DannyCockeMusic/status/1878307221249077464