Fire Uppydate (TONS of pictures)

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 04:37 PM

I think the "cloud" on the left was the fire still burning on Topanga/Box Cyn...the one of the right is the Simi Fire. You can't see the Calabasas fire (where I live) here:

Topanga fire...burnt Wednesday:

Excuse the glare, but I thought this was AMAZING!! That entire hill was crispy fried, but the cross was UNTOUCHED!!

I know these are a little hard to see with the glare, but this is what the fire left the hills between Topanga (valley) and Kuener (Simi Valley):

More coming...

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 04:41 PM

Getting into Simi Valley...

Isn't this neat with the sunlight peeking through the smoke?? I've always thought of God when I see sunlight, so this one gives me goosebumps:

The smoking hillside:

The Simi Valley/Rocketdyme fire:

(at the Kuener exit: )

This is what it looked like outside....creepy, huh?

FIRE!

More coming...(the most dramatic fire shots

)

**NoahsMommy** · 10-01-2005, 04:47 PM

Mom's exit and the bent wing planes delivering the flame retardant:

Up on the overpass of my parent's exit:

Standing in mom's back yard...luckily, we were safe there, but it was so unnerving to see that...there are homes on that hill.

(this is Thursday early afternoon, on Wednesday, that entire hill was on fire!!)

Look at the sky!

More coming...

**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!

**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.