The Orange County fire was started (by an arsonist who, if caught, should be given the death penalty of getting set on fire, starting with his fucken nut sack) in the hills near my house on Saturday night. I live about 2 miles from the flashpoints & saw nothing but a wall of flames, luckily, moving away from my house. The thing is still burning now & not getting any better.

For the past 2 days I’ve been walking through heavy ash floating through the air, a constant smell of burning & medium to thick smoke all around me, depending on how the winds are. The Santa Ana winds were so strong on the first 1.5 days…trees were getting blown over & to top it off, it’s been a consistent 80-90 degrees in the daytime with almost no humidity at all. Without the fires, it would almost be unbearable to be outside…I can only imagine what the firefighters are enduring.

In my office there is a constant smell of smoke…going inside doesn’t help with the air quality at all. My dog threw up yesterday because the air quality is so bad. Some of my coworkers had to take yesterday & today off because of mandatory evacuations as they try to pack everything they can in their cars and drive to somewhere safe. But I really feel for San Diego the most, who’s getting demolished right now by their own massive wildfires (I heard an evacuation area had to be evacuated, that’s how fast these fires are moving). And my girlfriend’s coworker just lost her vacation house in the Lake Arrowhead and another is evacuating their horses & animals from a ranch they own in South Orange County area, so there’s no really getting away from it.

If you live in So. Cal, you either see the fires, smell the smoke, have some ash floating around or know someone who’s either evacuating or being directly affected by all that’s going on here. Not a good time for any of us at all.

I’ll try to post some pictures I find from the fires, but to be honest, I’m really not in any mood to do anything at all.