Watching the fires

[petrea_mitchell]

The SO's mother, who passed away in 2022, lived in La Cañada Flintridge, one of the communities up against the hills on the north side of the Los Angeles area. Every few years, when there was a fire up in the hills, we could easily check that she was in a safe area by seeing that the high school a couple blocks away from her house was listed as an emergency shelter. It's ironic to see that this time all of LCF has been evacuated.

(The SO still has other relatives living in SoCal, but they're all far away from the current fires. Hoping everyone I know down there remains safe.)