When I was there in Aug., I was told about the drought conditions....I remembered thinking fires weren’t too far away...I didn’t imagine they’d be this bad, though.
So sad about loss of lives (I wonder if they died because they were trying to save their homes). People need to remember that their lives can never be replaced, no matter how devastating it may be to truly lose everything, it’s still only “stuff”.
Nic, we did see a post from a FReeper earlier who knows the first man who died in the fires. He had evacuated, then... for some unknown reason... turned back to his home.