They are home...hanging on. Linda says the winds have died down a lot and fire fighters are concentrating on saving homes. They're giving that priority over fires in areas where there are no homes.
It's a scary thing. You don't want to leave home if you don't have to but you don't want to stay too long and get caught either. Unless you've been in a grass or forest fire you can't even begin to imagine how fast the fires move and how unpredictable they are.
In the Deadwood fire, the flames got within about a block of where we were. The heat is agony but the worst is that the fire takes all the oxygen out of the air and you can't breath. We were sure it was all over when the wind suddenly shifted and the fire moved back up the hill. That was close enough for me!
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