RR....so sorry to hear of your friends' huge loss in these fires! I just can't imagine...
taxy....glad to hear your sister and her property are OK!
GG...that's the last I heard, too. The firefighters are working so hard to protect lives and property that they haven't begun to determine the cause of the fires yet.
Karen...thank you for your kind words. Yes, my SIL is an L.A. county firefighter, but so far they haven't sent him or his immediate co-workers out. They're in the Santa Clarita Valley and it's on high alert for fires right now too, so they need to keep some of the manpower there for brush fires that could, (and probably will, according to stats), start anytime.
Sheesh....this is all just heartbreaking. And like others have said, it's so much more than "just" the loss of life and property. The ripple effect will be huge.