"California is built to burn... I don't know if there will ever be a complete solution."

It will be all right when they finish paving it.

"It's an odd feeling looking up at what are normally a hulking dark mass above Los Angeles and instead seeing a red glow outlined against the night sky."

Grew up there, saw that. Don't miss it one little bit.

You can do all the fireproofing around your home that anyone has ever thought of, and it isn't going to make one bit of difference when those winds are shoving a big wall of fire ahead of it at 100 mph. If you live in that kind of area, you'd best be ready to run, and don't dawdle about it.

Sue