On Tuesday night my wife and I evacuated our mountain home just outside of Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz mountains. We have stayed at my high school (now that schools are just unattended structures), stayed with friends in Santa Cruz, stayed at my wife's school and are now house sitting for 2 weeks on the west side of Santa Cruz.
There are approximately 560 wildfires in Northern California alone, but if you look at a map of the western states, from Montana west, they are all ablaze. Resources are taxed, 64,600 people have been evacuated from the mountain valley that has been my home since 1990. Some 194 homes have been burned, many people I know have lost everything and my heart aches for them.
So far, the fire in my town has been steadily making it's way down the ridges toward town burning everything in it's way, 70,000 acres big... and only 8% contained. Firefighters from Los Angeles arrived a few days ago, firefighters from Australia are now on the scene. Resources are limited and the word that keeps being used to describe this fire is "unprecedented" because this is an area that has not been burned before and the amount of smoke has rendered air support incapable of where to make drops. So it continues to burn unabated.
At this point, my house is still there, but it is in the fire's path. Many of the area's firefighters were once students of my wife's and they take on this fire personally. Please send us your prayers and good intentions for stopping this fires destruction and for the many people that have lost everything except what they could fit in their car and drive away with.
There are approximately 560 wildfires in Northern California alone, but if you look at a map of the western states, from Montana west, they are all ablaze. Resources are taxed, 64,600 people have been evacuated from the mountain valley that has been my home since 1990. Some 194 homes have been burned, many people I know have lost everything and my heart aches for them.
So far, the fire in my town has been steadily making it's way down the ridges toward town burning everything in it's way, 70,000 acres big... and only 8% contained. Firefighters from Los Angeles arrived a few days ago, firefighters from Australia are now on the scene. Resources are limited and the word that keeps being used to describe this fire is "unprecedented" because this is an area that has not been burned before and the amount of smoke has rendered air support incapable of where to make drops. So it continues to burn unabated.
At this point, my house is still there, but it is in the fire's path. Many of the area's firefighters were once students of my wife's and they take on this fire personally. Please send us your prayers and good intentions for stopping this fires destruction and for the many people that have lost everything except what they could fit in their car and drive away with.
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