Fire Uppydate (TONS of pictures)

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 04:53 PM

More...

Wednesay after work, I headed to mom's house to make sure it was OK. This is what happened to their brand new patio set (up on their balcony because the yard is being put in)...

The winds reached 65 mph...the umbrella disconnected and fell on the table and shattered it.

Pictures from the balcony:

We headed to the top of mom's tract and took more. The view was devistating...breathing is not an option with all that in the air.

Even more coming...sorry so many

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 04:58 PM

To the left of those trees was the Jann's Fireman Basecamp: (headed towards Thousand Oaks on Thursday afternoon, as the fire started heading towards Wood Ranch, Thousand Oaks, Agoura, Oak Park and Calabasas.

The sky/sun...

Coming back into Simi Valley....around 5:00 p.m. Thursday:

Surprisingly, the fire started to die down!

But the wind kept fanning the embers and it'd start again. Here it is at night:

A few more coming, then I'm done!

**CagneyDog** · 10-01-2005, 05:02 PM

WOW, what a massive fire. Its amazing more houses weren't ruined.

**K9soul** · 10-01-2005, 05:06 PM

Those pictures are absolutely amazing (but scary

) I am SO glad you and Devan are safe. Thank God!

**petslover** · 10-01-2005, 05:20 PM

Wow, what a scary experience you had. That cross being untouched is an amazing sight. Thanks for sharing those pictures and I'm so glad you are okay. RIP to the poor fireman. He sure is a hero in my eyes.

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by petslover

RIP to the poor fireman. He sure is a hero in my eyes.

Oh, no! He didn't die!! He was injured on Wednesday. As far as I know, no one was killed. Thank God!

I was talking to Tonya (Zippiekatt) just know and we were saying that its amazing these firemen so willingly risk their lives for us. They're willing to save homes that CAN be replaced, people CANNOT. They're HUGE hero's in my eyes.

**catnapper** · 10-01-2005, 05:37 PM

Kelly, those are amazing!

This one could be in National Geographic!

Its beautiful and eerie at the same time.

Glad everyone is ok and safe!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 10-01-2005, 06:58 PM

Kelly,Wow!!! These pictures are scary. I'm so glad that you and your cats are all safe and that everyone else remained safe.

**prechrswife** · 10-01-2005, 08:10 PM

I'm so glad everyone is safe.

**shais_mom** · 10-01-2005, 05:22 PM

I agree with Jess - those pics are simply amazing yet so scary!

So glad that everyone made it thru 99.99% safe.

**luvofallhorses** · 10-01-2005, 05:23 PM

WOW!! I am glad everyone is OK.

((hugs))

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 05:05 PM

Night...

The sunset:

(look at all that smoke!)

OK, all done! It was an amazing experience. Those firemen saved 99.99% of the homes and I'm pretty sure no one outside that fire captain was hurt. For such an enormous fire, that's awesome! I don't have pictures of what Calabasas looks like now, but its not bad. The fire is out...thankfully! There's ash everywhere, but people are safe and that's a small annoyance to deal with.

The fire got to my exit and I HAD to evacuate...thank you so much, Gini for minding my babies!! I had to stay at mom's house on Thursday becuase it wasn't safe to return here till Friday night.

I just returned from getting the furballs from Gini's and now they're home and happy. They had a wonderful stay at Gini's (Noah says he's sorry for being such a meanie....he says "thank you" as well!) and I'm so grateful to my angel, Gini (mom) for that.

I'm so glad everyone here is safe.

Hope you enjoyed! I learned A LOT in emergency prepardness from this. I need to keep my cat carriers in tact in my storage area, not apart in my closet. I had the night before to think what to do, if I only had that 30 minutes in the morning, I don't know how I would have caught all 5.

Thank God for that.