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Well, it looks like the Santa Barbara fire a few days ago was just the warmup. Dunno if it's made the national news, but we've got fires all over the place out here again. The closest one, the Sayre fire in Sylmar, has taken out over 600 homes last I heard (most of them in a mobile home park). Sylmar is about 8 miles from our place, so it's not an immediate danger, but with the winds and the dry heat we've had lately, any of the foothill areas (including our neighborhood on the edge of the National Forest) are on alert for evacuation. (They've evacuated 10,000 people in Sylmar.) LOML and I have already discussed what we'd need to grab if we have to get out in a hurry.
Here's a fire map of the Sayre fire. Scroll a little to the east, and we're about where the map shows Sunland to be. We're in the mouth of the canyon just north of the Sunland dot on the map.
Interesting times, for sure.
Here's a fire map of the Sayre fire. Scroll a little to the east, and we're about where the map shows Sunland to be. We're in the mouth of the canyon just north of the Sunland dot on the map.
Interesting times, for sure.