Thank you everyone for your concerns. Yes, everything has calmed down here now and being as all of the brush in my area has now burned, I feel safe that no fires can reach me again for at least a year. A good comparison of this fire is to a category one hurricane as we had 50 MPH winds plus wind gusts up to almost 80 MPH here. The difference here is that we replaced the rain of a hurricane with fire. The fire crews here with their DC10 aircraft with 11,600 gallon fire retardant drops, super scoopers airplanes carrying 1,600 gallons of water and numerous water dropping helicopters with a 1,000 gallon capacity do a tremendous job of quenching fires. Even with all of that they still lose homes and structures because mother nature is just much bigger than we are.
-Fred-
-Fred-