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Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA

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Got home today to see the hills (Santa Cruz Mtns) to the west of us were all heavy smoke. Tonight quite a large area is in flames. Most of the one mountain so far. Makes the horizon glow orange.

We are east in the valley....should be okay.
 
Uvas Canyon is where Diane's folks' old ranch is located. A family friend who still lives a couple of miles down the road is under mandatory evacuation orders this morning. The fire is growing quickly and the smoke is pretty thick. 2000 acres and 10% contained as of this morning. Scary.
 
Seen it all and it is scary. I remember in 1971, climbing on top of my parent's home to see the fires burning north of Ventura. It was wild..... Hope nobody gets hurt and they can pull their cherished items before things melt.
 
Last night after dark the ridge top was glowing from the flames. Brings back memories of Diane's Mach 1 parked in the barn for nearly 25 years when the 2012 Croy fire happened. She has video from 2012 of the Cal Fire plane flying low over the pasture on the way to/from dropping fire retardant. Needless to say the Mach 1 came out of the barn and never went back.
 
At least the CalFire planes that take off from the Hollister airport don't have far to go to get to the fire. Hope they get it under control soon!
The ash falling looks like tiny little snow flakes.
 
Being from the east, I never really could understand why people were so freaked out by fires. But, of course, that's because a fire on the east coast won't spread over an acre because it's so wet.

Then I moved to Colorado and the first summer got to experience the Waldo Canyon Fire. I was on the ridge next to it when it started and could not even comprehend how quickly it spread. And then suddenly it had burned 18,000+ acres, eaten over a hundred houses, and rendered "the Pass" totally unusable (while on fire) to sometimes unusable (anytime any kind of moisture hits the burn scar), making it totally impossible to get to town.

Now I have a healthy respect for fires. Hope you guys stay safe.
 
As growing up and living in SoCal all of my life, fires are just a fact of life. It is a natural thing that occurs. SoCal development has incurred into areas that are succeptible to fires and people wonder why their homes burn. Hello!?! With the growth of the bark beetle that has further decimated the national forests, we've got a bigger tinderbox.
 
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