Originally Posted By: hikermor
... straining to get to the advancing fire. Not to worry - it was at least 400 yards away.

Very true. That's another difference between evacuating for a hurricane vs wildfires. Depending on the fire, "evacuating" may mean (at least in a place like Southern California) driving just a couple miles down the road, and then hanging out with your neighbors at some Starbucks parking lot waiting for the authorities to let you back home, rather than driving many miles inland to avoid some massive hurricane bearing down on you.