Fire All Around

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Our office is in Old Town Temecula. It's pretty neat. We're in an old Western style building on the third floor. When we heard the fire had broken into Redhawk, which is south of us, Mom took this first picture.
This next picture shows the hills of DeLuz just on the other side of the creek to the west of us.
About 1:30PM another fire was going in DeLuz, called the "Rosa Fire".
This is about the time she decided to go home.
About ten minutes later, you can see it's already getting bigger.

We're not so much worried about our office, but the creeks and canyons act like chimneys, and the wind was blowing so hard my hair was sleeked straight back from my nose, just like it would be if I had my head out a speeding car window.

By 5:00PM the Temecula Community Center was all full of people who evacuated, and Temecula Valley High School was set up to be an emergency shelter. We heard Chaparral High was also set up for this.

I worry about my friends - the bunnies, the squirrels, the skunks. YEAH? Well, I think they're nice folks and they can't help that they smell that way. Sooo...putting my paws together and praying that they'll be ok. And I'm hoping that my clients will still have their homes to go home to once this is all over.


Mom was taking pictures of all the equipment in the office and, as an afterthought, decided to include me. As you can see, I'm VERY serious about these fires.

Love, Mary-Margaret