Ashes, Ashes, we're all OK!

Ok, so there is a fire near us...kind of. I mean if you are looking at a map of the Yorba Linda/Brea area, yes, we are pretty close to the Brea fire. It would take us all of 5 minutes to drive up into the fire. However, that is up on the hill where all the brush is and we are a bunch of houses, businesses and a large Hwy away from it. So we are all ok, no sign of any evacuation orders and mostly everything has been north of us moving east and north. Yes, the 57 fwy is closed as is the 91 fwy. Things are looking worse for our school then our residence. We are waiting to see if anyone from the school will be calling to say not to come to work or the kids to school. There is an area about a mile from the school that has been evacuated so.... who knows.

Kaleigh did get home safely from her camp out at Lake Arrowhead so that is all good. The air quality is something different. It is smokey and stinky and we are not thrilled with all the ash that has fallen on our cars, and everything else! As you can see by the photos there was a lot of ash that blew our way. The last photo was of the Yorba Linda fire when I was on my way home from our Silent Auction at our Church. Needless to say our Auction was not too well attended because of the fires. We still did pretty good though. So no worries, at least so far.