Well, school was cancelled today and we sent our students home at 1pm yesterday due to the really bad smoke blanket covering our area. We now have a total of 18 fires between Santa Barabara County to San Diego County, one of which is just about 10 miles from our house. While we are not in danger of our house buring down, we can see where the fire is located and can smell the smoke when we are outside. We were told to stay indoors and run our air conditioning during the day. It's hard to believe that we have so many fires burning, some out of control, so near to us. The fire near us was confirmed as arson, and I really hope they are able to catch the thoughtless person who started it So many people have lost their homes and Kyle and I know several people who have had to evacuate due to possible danger. Yesterday a fire broke out in Lake Arrowhead, which is a city we drive by on the way up to Big Bear. Kyle's aunt, uncle and three cousins had to evacuate and are now staying at the Big Bear cabin. Kyle spoke with them this morning and they still have no idea if they have a home to go back to. Thankfully Kyle's other aunt and uncle, who had a beautiful log cabin in Lake Arrowhead, just moved down the mountain because their home has been burned to the ground.
Please pray for all the people who have lost homes and had to evacuate over the last couple of days and are not sure when they can return home. This is a tragic time for Southern Californians and with the Santa Ana winds blowing at 40-50mph they are not sure they can contain some of these fires before Halloween.
This is a view of the fires that NASA took from space! The one lonely fire you seen in the middle of the areas that have multiple fires, is the fire closest to us.
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