The view as Mike drives away from his house
As reported about two months ago, Mike and Vanessa have a very nice first home in a spacious apartment above a garage in a remote, gated community near Somis. A concern that we all had when we first visited was the danger of a wildfire in this rugged ranching area.
August and September are the two BIG fire season months in southern California.
Yesterday our fears for them came true as the Guiberson Fire started, get this, due to spontaneous combustion of manure in the heat. . .
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
OF MANURE???
Mike and Vanessa left Rio Mesa ast about noon to get their valuable possessions out of harms way during a Voluntary Evacuation period.
Mike's Saturn arriving at our house
Still on Voluntary Evacuation mode last night Vanessa and Mike spent the night at our house.
This morning at 6:00 a.m. the Ventura County Fire Department issued a Mandatory Evacuation order for their gated community. Scary indeed, but they are safe and all of their most important possessions are safe too.
We have spent the morning watching the fire on various TV news programs and hearing helicopters flying overhead on their way to fighting the fire.
35 or 40 years from now this will be a great story for Mike and Vanessa to tell their grandchildren!
The following pictures of the Guiberson Fire are courtesy of the Ventura County Star newspaper. As of now, about 9,000 acres have been scorched.
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