Thanks for that info, Mrs.L. Do you happen to know exactly where the Witch Fire is? The only description I've heard is "south of Escondido".
I’m in Escondido. The fire came down the riverbed going into lake Hodges and took out several of the estate houses on the Beethoven street hill just east of the mall, right above Lake Hodges. It then crossed the I15 and took out a couple of houses south of Via Rancho Parkway just west of the freeway. The flanks are now showing up and we’ve lost a few more residences on the extreme east end of town, near San Pasqual Road. The area above the Wild Animal Park is threatened at the moment, and the eastern end of the city just north of Highway 78, plus the new Hidden Hills project at the extreme eastern end of Washington Street are at risk. Fortunately, being the flanks, the fire’s arriving slowly and the locals are having a pretty good outcome so far.