October 2007 Southern California Fires

The news said that there was a total of 31 fires here in Southern California last week.
I also heard there were about 500 thousand people evacuated from their homes and many lost their homes. It was a very intense long week.
The fire did not come to Temecula but we sure were surrounded by fires. The fires were close enough for us to get the smoke, ashes and very bad air quantity. There was a day or two that we though we also will need to evacuate since the fires looked too close for confort.

The fire came this close to the Fallbrook SDA church.
See the electrical post. From the post on is burnt.

Cars cover with a dust that is really very fine ashes flakes in the air

Look of the fire around us during the night

Fire during the day.
During the day we wound see a lot of thick smoke.
It was also hot and very dry. The news said that the humidty went as low to 11%

View of the fire from one of our upstairs windows