San Diego fire update
As the world can imagine, San Diego and many part of Southern California haven’t been a pretty sight for the last few days. Fires have ravaged many homes and business all over San Diego and have put Southern California on national news as a headlining story for all to see. I was one of the many, almost one million, who were forced to evacuated their homes in fear for their lives or at the very least losing their home. At one point in time, the first was several hundred feet from my house which is when we were told by police that our suburb was taken out of the voluntary evacuation warning and is now a mandatory evacuation zone. Many San Diegans, fled to nearby evacuation centers such as local high schools and the biggest evacuation center, Qualcomm, others found refuge from the smoke and ash floating in the air at friends and family lucky enough to still have their homes as shelter. Many were lucky to have their homes saved by the very brave fire fighters from all over saving people’s houses although they did their best, in the end many houses were just pieces of rubble. Although the fires are almost being contained they still continue to carry on but once these fires have died down there’s still the grueling process of rebuilding. So San Diego and many part of Southern California have a very long way to go. I would like to thank you for all the comments left on this site and to let you know that my house still stands, my family is in tact and we’re fine. I’ll be blogging more about this fire and it’s aftermath in later blogs. But don’t think it will be all bad news. Part of putting this in the past is picking up where we left off and that’s writing about one of America’s finest cities.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
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November 2nd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
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November 18th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
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March 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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March 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
We have profiles and photos of over 45 families that have lost their homes in the wildfires. Please take a looksee and contact one of the families if you can do anything: ReBuildRB.com