Faye & I returned to our home on Friday at 11am. Our next door neighbor kept watch over it and let us know that it was ok; however, we did not know how close the fire actually came to us. The fire came up to our street 2 houses above us and crossed the road to start burning leaves under the avocado trees. The fire fighters planned to make their stand on Canonita, so there were fire trucks on our road all during the fire. They put out the small burn on our side of the street and stopped the fire from any further crossing - all of this about 150 yards up Canonita from us. Two houses on the next street north were totally destroyed down the hill from the burn that reached Canonita - very scary. Our house had power all week, so we did not even lose the food in our refrigerators and freezer. We are so thankful.
We are going to return to Vince & Cathy's today to pick up the Suburban that we filled with our most valuable instruments and books, and to bring our birds home - Oski (blue & gold macaw) and Chewie (black headed caique) are fine, but they both want to come home and the air quality here is good and getting better. Surprisingly, very little ash around, but a few scary large pieces of black embers that could have started burns on our property if they were still burning when they landed. Again, Faye & I want to thank all of our friends around the world who have emailed their concern for our safety. All in all, it was an experience that we do not want to have again.
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