Many of you might not have heard about this in your neck of the woods but out here in Northern California we have many major fires going on right now. A few of the major fires are within 20 to 30 miles North or Northeast of us (not including a smaller 80 acre fire that was about 10 miles away). Many people have lost their homes and businesses. We have been glues to the TV watching the news (one of my wife’s friends from work and her brother are down here staying with us since they got evacuated) trying to find out if their home was safe along with other people that we now.
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Smoke via a space satellite
Hearing the stories throughout the day made me wonder what it would have been like?
At this point it is too early to tell how it started but maybe it was someone who was doing
while they were driving and out the window went the still lit butt. This along with those nasty Santa Ana winds created a very
night. With California being in peak fire season the dry weeds and grass
were the main ingredients to
the fire.
had no say in the matter and within a matter of an hour or two the North Bay
was on the
By two or three o’clock in the morning the police, fire and other local agencies are on the streets calling out to everybody to find
because it was a major fire storm. Many people had but minutes to get out of their homes and by the time they did some had to literally
getting to their vehicles. If it was me I would have been screaming
and
We even saw cell phone footage of people swerving all over the road to get around the flames on both sides of the road and maybe someone’s family was screaming at the driver
Those many people that had little warning were really
but hopefully the all got out with all of the family and animals in the vehicles. A couple streets down or maybe even the next door neighbor’s house was already surrounded by a great big
and everybody in the car was yelling at all the people still getting
ready to evacuate
My wife’s friend and brother ended up on the freeway coming south to her work and what usually takes her 20 minutes took two hours. They said “wow what a
that was” when they finally got over to our house from their work place. Maybe hundreds of the evacuated people were saying that it was good to be
after they had gotten to a safe shelter and were thinking about being
and praying that they are not going to be one of the ones watching the news as they see their house going up in flames and the bright eyed newscaster saying “the fire is sure
on that street. What if I had some good old
to calm me down right now that would be nice?
As we watched on TV the northern city of Santa Rosa, Napa and Calistoga were
looking like
All the first responders getting people to safety, the nurses, doctors, EMT’s and local bus drivers along with many other people volunteers evacuating two different hospitals to safe the patients. These are true
not the ones we see on moving or TV (there is a Rush song in there somewhere). It looked like the whole Bay Area had said
because all you could see was dark gray smoke and the smell of fire was everywhere. We are hoping that the evacuated people can go
soon. The ones that have lost everything have the courage to
and can
and see that there is hope and people all around will be there to help.
I’ve lived through several fires while living in the Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu – a “log cabin’ burned down a couple years after I moved out. Scarey times. Take care!
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Nice work. Good luck to you and everyone down there. Thoughts with everyone dealing with it on all levels.
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Thanks CB
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Amazing and you covered all the true facts. Nice work Den! Thanks for helping my/our friends! xo!
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I tried to put a little different spin on this major fire storm without offending the poor people that have lost homes, businesses and family members.
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Wow! Nice to see you turn tragedy into a creative work of art. I mean that in a positive sense. Clever. Hope you’re safe. That lit butt wasn’t the cause, it was the thoughtless criminal who flicked it.
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Thanks that was my goal. As the days have past the fires have gotten worse. We are lucky to be south of the fires so the winds have been pushing them the other directions. As of today due to the great work of the police, fire and other agencies getting people out in time the lose of life is only at 21. That number will rise but with over 3500 building destroyed it could have been a lot worse.
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