No - the runaway controlled burn was a week or more before this one. I haven’t heard what started this one, but it happened when there were High Wind Warnings ....60 mph gusts. Fires were breaking out all over the place, not just on the mountain, but in the valley. There were fires also on the east side of the mountain (we passed one with flames at the edge of the road with a fire crew, EMS, LEO watching it). There were several small fires near our ‘flatland’ house as well - one close enough to send smoke to the northern part of the city (we are in the western ‘burbs’ - didn’t smell anything).
Our road at the mountain house goes down the hill about half a mile to the river, crosses, then branches right & left. To the left is the big ‘complex’ fire & where houses were evacuated, etc. To the right, the road climbs the mountain, eventually turning into gravel & goes up to the top of the ridge ... there is a fire up there as well. I used to do a marathon hike (32 mi. in one day) every spring in that area, so I’m familiar with it & some of the landmarks they talk about in reference to the fire. It’s almost surreal seeing the fires & hearing about them and all the places are ‘familiar’.
“It’s almost surreal seeing the fires & hearing about them and all the places are ‘familiar’.”
When I lived in Imperial Beach, CA some bums burned down one of our HUGE piers; I could see it every morning from my kitchen window, and I also walked it a lot and fished off of it. That was the end of that!
It’s hard when we lose familiar landmarks. Hope they can get this NEW fire under control. Fire has got to be the worst thing to go through - for man or beast. :(