Fire Uppydate (TONS of pictures)

**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!

**petslover** · 10-01-2005, 05:45 PM

Oh okay. I see now. I am glad he is alive. I must have read it too fast. He should be on television getting recognition for his achievement. I agree. Firemen are huge heros. I respect them alot.

**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.

**Daisy and Delilah** · 10-01-2005, 08:20 PM

Kelly, I am so happy to hear you're okay and all your little babies are safe too. That was quick thinking getting them to Gini's and getting the heck outta there. What a great friend Gini is!! Bravo Gini!! Those pics are amazing. How scary for you. (((((HUGS)))))

**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.