No More Smoke.
The sky is clear this morning.
All the fires have been pushed into the wild lands northeast of Santa Rosa. There is still burning going on but the big fires have been contained and now they have to snuff out what is left.
We had a little rain Thursday night and that helped clear the air. The winds are light and blowing from the west bringing humidity in from the ocean. All this is helping the firefighters to put this blaze to bed.
Firefighters From Every Where.
It was amazing to see all the fire trucks and police cars from all over the western states here to help put this inferno down.
There were even some firefighters here from Australia.
Repopulating.
We learned a new word in the last couple of weeks “Repopulate”.
That is what they call letting people back into the evacuated areas of the city to see if they have a home or not.
Lorraine.
Loraine is still at the shelter. She is hopping that they will let her back into her place soon.
Her home is in one of the areas that got hit hard by the fire. Out of 200 homes in her park 80 of them burned to the ground. She was lucky as the fire stopped behind the houses across the street from her.
Tally.
Over 5000 homes were destroyed by the fires; 5% of the housing in Santa Rosa.
1000 of them in the Coffee Park neighborhood (almost a total loss).
I don’t know how many burned in the Fountain Grove neighborhood. This was an area of multi-million dollar homes that was almost completely wiped of the map.
Amazingly, there were only 22 fatalities related to the fires in Santa Rosa.
All the fires in Sonoma and Napa counties burned a total of over 100,000 acres.
I don’t know how many businesses were burned but it was a bunch.
Thousands of people have been displaced and will be in need of immediate housing.
This is going to be a tough winter for many of our neighbors in the county.
There were many more losses in the other towns surrounding Santa Rosa but I don’t have any figures on them.
I believe this rises to the point where you could call it a bonafide disaster
No Pictures.
We haven’t been around the area taking pictures yet.
They are just now opening the burnt areas to residence only so it will be a while before we go take a look.
We don’t want to be in the way of the people that have suffered such overwhelming losses.
Okay that is the last fire update.
Maybe in a few days we will show you some pictures.
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