California fire update

For those of you that don't know, California is having some major wildfires and we are amongst one. It is called the Santiago fire and started in the hills east of Irvine on Sunday evening and has spread since then to only a few miles from us. The local newspaper was kind enough to create a map of where the fire has burned/is burning. It hasn't been updated since this morning, so John added some color to it. The pink area is the burn area as of this morning. The blue area is where the fire is currently burning and where everyone has been evacuated. The black dot with yellow in the center is where we live. The black dot with aqua in the center is where John is working right now. To get an idea of distance, his work is about 1 mile from home.Pretty scary, huh! Here is another shot from our back patio today. It is definitely more impressive at night. The whole sky lights up from the flames and there is a beautiful glow.
The fire is heading down toward a lot of our ward families homes and our ward building that backs up to a ravine of open dry vegetation. This weekend was supposed to be very busy for us (i.e. primary program practice/pizza party, trunk or treat activity, and the Sacrament Primary Program on Sunday (I am in charge) , oh and BYU vs San Diego game with my parents in town). The BYU game was rescheduled for Dec because of San Diego's horrible fires and that means my parents aren't coming now. So, we might be looking at nothing to do this weekend. There is not much we can do anyway. The air outside is awful, just like you are right next to a campfire, it reeks! And there are a lot of road and freeway closures from other fires so that means we won't be traveling anywhere either. Might as well just enjoy it!