Firestorm 2007

Yes, I'm a little late to the party in bringing this up, but I was having internet access issues last week on top of scoring a new job that this is the first chance I've really had to do this.

My area was hit by one of the Southern California fires -- the Santiago Canyon one, to be exact.  Now, I feel like a horrible resident not even knowing where Santiago Canyon is in reference to my corner of the world, but trust me, I sure smelled the effects of the fire the Sunday it started.  Thankfully, we weren't close enough to see any blazes or fear sudden evacuation, but I really felt for those who were in the line of fire, so to speak.

I work in neighboring city, Newport Beach, and even smelled the smoke from there.  Looking out over the 18th floor of the building, we were able to see plumes of smoke and overall gray skies.  Not a very happy thing to see when you'd rather see the ocean.

At any rate, since I never carry around my camera, I thought I'd whip out the trusty-dusty camera-phone doohicky.  Yea, real quality stuff.  But, it's better than having me draw a picture...

Firestorm 2007

This was taken on October 24, 2007 on my way home from work at around 5:15 pm and the fire was only 30% contained (the fire is burning off to the right of the photo).  The local schools were shut down the next Friday.  I think the latest status is that it's 65% contained.   I hope they catch the rat-bastard that started this and the others.  He (or she?) deserves to be burned at the stake!