Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Santiago Canyon Fires




As you all know it's been hectic here in some (many) parts of California for the last week. I was also thinking about Dave and Rob as the fires were burning. Good to hear Dave is safe but don't know how close Rob came. As for us, we moved to Foothill Ranch in July. We are in a fire zone backed up to Whiting Ranch. The Santiago fire was started by an arsonist. It didn't appear headed in our direction but I got a call on Monday 10/22/07 from a buddy that said it might be wise for me to head home. When I finally got there it was clear the fire would soon be at our door. Fortunately for us, it did not reach our house or any others in the neighborhood although it did come really close. We were told to evacuate Monday afternoon. Stayed at a friends place and were back on Tuesday morning. Other than a lot of ash and smoke, everything was fine. Here are a few pictures I took as I packed what I could and headed out. Two pictures show the fire across the street from our house (taken from our driveway). The other is what the street looked like as I was getting ready to leave. Our house is on the right just beyond the palm tree. The firemen did a fantastic job of keeping our neighbor safe.

Cheers, Joe Ziller

3 Comments:

Blogger Lee Devlin said...

Hi Joe,

Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the fire. Your photos are amazing. I've just sent Rob an email to see whether he's been affected. I'm glad to know that it missed your house although I can't believe how close it got to you!

Wed Oct 31, 06:28:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Lee Devlin said...

I just got a response from Rob Crawford:

Lee,

Thanks for your concern. The 2 Santa Clarita fires that were near my home never got close enough. Both fires ended up about 3-5 miles away. We didn't have to evacuate. The only issue, which I'm sure Joe and Dave faced as well was smoke. All seems back to normal in my area. Dave, I believe will have the longest remnants of the fire, no pun intended.

Lee, thanks again for all of your efforts on the reunion. I chuckled at the note from M. Kinney on the blog the other day. It was a great deal of fun.

Take care.

Rob
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It's good to know that all of our classmates living in CA were able to avoid any serious property damage as a result of the fires.

Wed Oct 31, 08:24:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Joseph said...

Lee,

Glad to hear Dave and Rob are well. As Rob said, the smoke smell is going to take a while to clear but that's insignificant when you think what happened to so many others.

Cheers, Joe

Wed Oct 31, 10:01:00 AM PDT  

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