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[Noel7]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@catchersmom wrote:

@Moonchilde I don't know Moonchilde; what if you had gone in to try to save your cat and some possessions  and had been trapped somehow?

I'm just glad you were ok and relieved to hear your cat was as well. I know that had to be a traumatic and horrifying experience.  

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@catchersmom, I meant I would have been at home for first call/very beginning of fire at the opposite end of the large building. I would have had time to stuff kitty in a carrier, grab a handful of clothes/shoes and some keepsakes. It would have had to be before the FD arrived, as they were keeping everyone away.

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I'm so glad you got your kitty, though.

[catchersmom]

@Moonchilde understood

I'm still not real familiar with where posters on the board live, but I hope that those of you that are in that area of California are all safe....as well as your friends and loved ones

(sorry about the font- I am having a heck of a time getting it to let me change to my usual one....this website will drive me bananas yet)

[sidsmom]

Do we know who the victims were?

Being an established area. I’m afraid many will be elderly.

Update:  

CNN just announced an elderly couple of 100 & 90ish just perished.

Heartbreaking.

[Noel7]

We have two kitty carriers but it occurred to me the youngest probably grew out of her first one, so I got on Amazon and ordered another.

Trying a soft sided one, nice looking, lots of screened windows to open, latches so kitty can't open the doors, our youngest managed to open large crates made for a dog.  She could easily have been a jewel thief with her skills.  One claw was all it took, and she was so proud every time she got out.

[viva923]

just got email from my husband sister who lives up in the fire area. She told us in email, she is 20 minutes west of fire but her Daughter is 2 blocks from fire zone. the daughter's house has been declared safe, fire has moved on.  the daughter is now living with her mom at the moms house till further notice.

[Noel7]

150 known missing.

[Noel7]

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@viva923 wrote:

just got email from my husband sister who lives up in the fire area. She told us in email, she is 20 minutes west of fire but her Daughter is 2 blocks from fire zone. the daughter's house has been declared safe, fire has moved on.  the daughter is now living with her mom at the moms house till further notice.

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I'm so glad she is safe!  @viva923

[Stray]

I heard an elderly couple died, 98 & 100....the granddaughter said a greater tragedy would have been if one survived.   So sad to live so long and die in such a horrible way. 

[Bibione]

I am in Italy and all the news channels are reporting the fires.

[Moonchilde]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@catchersmom wrote:

@Moonchilde I don't know Moonchilde; what if you had gone in to try to save your cat and some possessions  and had been trapped somehow?

I'm just glad you were ok and relieved to hear your cat was as well. I know that had to be a traumatic and horrifying experience.  

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@catchersmom, I meant I would have been at home for first call/very beginning of fire at the opposite end of the large building. I would have had time to stuff kitty in a carrier, grab a handful of clothes/shoes and some keepsakes. It would have had to be before the FD arrived, as they were keeping everyone away.

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I'm so glad you got your kitty, though.

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Me too, @Noel7. He slept on my head for a month, and smelled like smoke for weeks. I called him BBQ kitty until it faded away.