New fires are starting on base, we can see it from our window, about 3 miles from our house. You can tell if the smoke is black that it’s new, yellow/white means the firefighters are getting to it. This is actually getting scary now.

worthlesstwat:

“James Harkins, 72, uses a garden hose to fight flames racing up a hillside toward his home in San Marcos. Harkins, who refused to evacuate, said he didn’t want to let his house burn. ‘No, no, no,’ he said. ‘Not without a fight.’” -L.A. Times

I saw this guy on TV this morning when the firefighters were trying to get him to leave. God, I can’t even imagine. I’m watching the smoke blow from the mountains from the window at work and it’s just mind blowing. When I was younger and we lived on base we could watch the fires flare up on the ridge behind our house at night, then in the morning we weren’t allowed outside because massive flakes of ash had caked everything.

I saw this from a distance, but I can’t imagine living it. Prayers to these people, and anything else that can be given.