the fires

**G*@aol.com**

Debra,

It was so good to see your earlier e-mail and know that you were ok. I  think 
like many, I hated to ask my friends in San Diego, the Ventura area or up  in 
the mountains near Arrowhead, fearing what the answer might be.

Our next door neighbor and husband have a home up in Arrowhead and I  finally 
talked to her the other morning as she was leaving for work.  Fortunately, 
their home escaped damage.

Here in Riverside, we've been in between all the fires. Arrowhead and  
Running Springs to the north and west of us, the Santiago fire northeast of us,  and 
the fires up north too far away to be significant. We have a granddaughter  
and her husband who live in Valencia. Both are LAPD, and both were on duty  
during the start of the fire, and they had a mandatory evacuation. So, with  
their 7 month old baby, they went south to Newbury Park and moved in with their  
Mother, our daughter, until the evacuation was lifted. They said later the fire 
 got within a mile of their home.

I've lived here in Southern California since the forties and this is the  
worst fire season I've seen.

We had no damage anywhere here in Riverside, the smoke was never really  bad, 
and the ash falling was minimal.

Jerry

Gerald Burke
Garden Writer

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