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Old Oct 21, 2007 | 09:30 PM
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I hope it all works out for you and you stay safe. SoCal is burning all over the place tonight but fortunately the closest fire to us is about 10 miles away and moving the opposite direction. For now.

Back in '93 during the Laguna Beach fire I was living on the extreme SW end of Irvine, down by UCI, and when the wind shifted (after the fire consumed some 400 homes in Laguna Beach) the fire raced up through the Irvine Ranch area and the fire dept. started setting back burns across the street from my house. We were evacuated and when I got back in the morning all I could see from the back yard was a torched hillside - far as the eye could see. The house was perfectly fine.

Those firefighters...man, I hardly know how to express my awe at these guys. Just amazing. Hopefully your experience through this is similar to mine back then.
 
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