Fires Destroy Over 1,000 Homes in California
Share November 16, 2008 | Zen Musings
Last year in October, wildfires ravaged through communities just north of where I live in Poway and Rancho Bernardo. There was much devastation and those families are still trying to rebuild their lives.
Five years ago, wildfires ravaged through my neighborhood of Scripps Ranch, and we were told to evacuate and we settled in a Holiday Inn somewhere closer to the Pacific Ocean, escaping the devastating wildfires of 2003.
Right now the wildfires continue to burn from Montecito near Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles area, fueled by strong Santa Ana winds. Here in San Diego it’s eerily quiet. And I wonder if we’ll experience those wildfires once again, having to evacuate and quickly pack up our belongings and personal items, photographs, important documents, etc…
I pray we don’t, but my heart goes out to those families who are being affected by the fires north of me… to those families who’ve lost their homes… I pray for them.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Wildfires hop-scotched around Southern California on Sunday although calmer winds slowed flames that have destroyed almost 1,000 houses, forced tens of thousands to evacuate and turned some neighborhoods into scenes resembling war zones.
A pall of towering, choking smoke blocked out the sun in much of the Los Angeles area and in Orange County to the south-east after flames ripped through tinder-dry brush. The fires jumped freeways and reduced mobile homes, multimillion dollar mansions and apartment blocks to ashes in about a dozen communities.
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Carlos (a.k.a Randomguru) is a working musician, web developer and web publisher living in San Diego, California.