I was a kid when the Cedar Fire came through San Diego, the only wildfire to go directly through my neck of the woods. I remember watching just a massive wall of flame move over the hills behind my house toward my backyard in the span of about twenty minutes while we scrambled to pack up our animals and photos. When we came back after the evacuation, we could see multiple houses on each street burned to the ground, and the sky was orange and absolutely choked with ash. This isn't my picture, but it's the best representation I could find. It was completely surreal and still incredibly warm, even though the fire was no longer in the area. I really got a heaping portion of respect for firefighters and what you guys do from that experience, and from every fire since. I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do. Firefighters and volunteers are the only reason I didn't spend fifth grade homeless, while a lot of my classmates did.
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I was a kid when the Cedar Fire came through San Diego, the only wildfire to go directly through my neck of the woods. I remember watching just a massive wall of flame move over the hills behind my house toward my backyard in the span of about twenty minutes while we scrambled to pack up our animals and photos. When we came back after the evacuation, we could see multiple houses on each street burned to the ground, and the sky was orange and absolutely choked with ash. This isn't my picture, but it's the best representation I could find. It was completely surreal and still incredibly warm, even though the fire was no longer in the area. I really got a heaping portion of respect for firefighters and what you guys do from that experience, and from every fire since. I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do. Firefighters and volunteers are the only reason I didn't spend fifth grade homeless, while a lot of my classmates did.
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