OT – Hope our friends in California are safe from the fires

[Wite3]

Well, it has been absolutely awful here the last few days. I live about a mile from one of the large command posts for the Station Fire. The park is a tent city of fire, ranger, and police personnel. The air quality has gotten worse over the last three days with yesterday and today raining ash. Two firefighters have perished during this fire defending another camp that was overrun by flames. They now say full containment might (might?!?) happen by Sept. 15. It is awful. My class spent the day writing to the firefighters and I dropped them off at the command center. I was surprised to see other community members there dropping off water, homemade food, letters, clothes, and gifts. Very nice to see some outreach here in Los Angeles.

Joshua

[ethicsprof]

was thinking about you Adam and Joshua, as i sit here in Florida a bit past midnight.
you and your families and others are in my thoughts and prayers during these most difficult times

all the best,
barry

[thekingofclout]

And I've never seen anything quite like it as over a four day period I watched helplessly as fire consumed a whole mountain and went on to the next one. Looked as if someone was photoshopping it. Absolutely surreal. The smoke and ash made it pretty much impossible to stay outside for more than a few minutes. And even inside my closed up apartment, the smell of smoke was pretty strong at times.