If you're careful and lucky, you may never have a house fire, the kind that gives you virtually no time at all.

But you can't control wildfires. You can stand in front of it yelling, or you can run.

The fire in the news here on the west coast is the Tahoe fire.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/26/wildfires/index.html?eref=rss_topstories. So far, over 2400 acres and 240 homes burned, 1000 more threatened.

Two pieces of information in the article jumped out at me:

"...many of the homes were lost in the first half hour."

"Many evacuating residents had to flee on foot, taking just what they could carry..."

It would be nice to have a plan that everyone in your family knows, whether you live in town or countryside.

Sue