[Aerkuld]

Just spoke with one of my old neighbors. I used to live one street away from Borrego Canyon up near El Torro and apparently the whole canyon went up yesterday evening. He said there were a few crispy houses (his words) on the edge of the canyon and several people lost patio furniture and garden equipment but he wasn't aware of any houses lost, at least in that development. It seems like they has a troublesome night last night, staying up and hosing things off. Apparently there were flames fifty feet over the roof tops. He said the glow is no longer visible and the fire has moved on, but the next development along is the next in the line of danger. He told me that he canyon where I used to walk with my boys now looks like the surface of the moon.
It seems to bring it into eerie perspective when I can picture these places and know how close the fire came to people I know. I hope everyone we know on the boards here and their friends and families get away with it as lightly as my friends seem to have done.