Today is a strange day. I'm sitting in Madison, Wisconsin, here for a class at UW. And today is the one year anniversary of the start of the Old Fire in Southern California.
The Grand Prix fire had started a few days earlier, a dozen or so miles to the west. But the Old Fire started just a couple of miles away, and within a very short time was rapidly approaching my neghborhood. We evacuated; we came back; we evacuated a second time; and we came back to a lot of ash but no damage to the house.
Looking back at the photographs I took as the fire approached our neighborhood, it seems like just yesterday...
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[ phtograph above: helicopter returns from dumping a load of water, East Highlands Ranch, 26 October 2003 ]
