Lots of folks have written about this week's fires. Like many others, I paid a lot of attention to them, but for me, a bit more maybe than most since I used to live in both Los Angeles and San Diego, and in particular, in neighborhoods in each city which were evacuated.

I found this picture to be pretty representative of the scale of the fires. Taken shamelessly from The Weather Channel website...



The Witch fire in San Diego resulted in an evacuation of my old neighborhood there. The Buckweed fire in Los Angeles resulted in an evacuation of my old neighborhood in Santa Clarita (aka Canyon Country).

I can't imagine what it must have been like in Southern California this last week. If you can see the smoke from space...