Hey all,
My brother lives in Napa and I have an uncle in Angwin. If I'm reading the maps, etc., right it sounds like my brother is in the mandatory evacuation area. I have had contact with him today, but not much.
The town of Middleton is pretty much completely destroyed - one of our churches and our local church school is reportedly amoungst the burned down structures in that area.
So scary how fast a majorly destructive fire can start. (This fire is only about 24 hours old.)
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http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226
As of this afternoon, it had grown to 50,000 acres with zero percent containment. I'm in the South SF Bay area, 100 miles south of the fire, and there is a sprinkling of fine ash on the cars outside. The smoke has also arrived and the air quality has steadily been deteriorating this afternoon. The area north of Angwin in under mandatory evacuation. Angwin is probably 25 miles north of Napa.
Fingers crossed they can get a handle on this one soon.
September 14th, 2015 at 12:11 am 1442189499
AR - Thanks, that was the map I was looking at. I too hope that it gets under control soon. Some of the reports I've been reading said that firefighters right now are just focusing on getting people out. The drought you guys have been having this year sure isn't helping things.
September 14th, 2015 at 12:20 am 1442190000
We have a relative who lost a home there. I don't know the details, but it happened so fast he didn't have time to rescue one thing from his house (the fire erupted while he was at work; his was one of the first homes lost in that fire last night). I don't know if he had pets.
I know LookingForward is in that area too.
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Anyone hear from LF?
September 15th, 2015 at 02:25 am 1442283909
As to my relative, he doesn't know anything. No one knows anything. They are indefinitely evacuated and it's possible his home did survive but who knows when he will ever know. I will update in my blog when we find out. (There's been some video of businesses and homes that look completely untouched, though rumor and word of mouth was different from the reality. BUT, the video also showed random flare ups and no one is there to put out the fires. It's not over).
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Thanks for taking a closer look at the map(s) - I wasn't totally sure where Napa fell in the Napa County, and I couldn't remember exactly where LF lived.
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