re: Fires in nor cal.. stay or go

Live here in Sonoma County. Received emergency notification from S.O. about an hour ago that said the Tubbs Fire is still 0% contained.

My 90 y/o father was living at Villa Capri Assisted Living on Fountaingrove Parkway in Santa Rosa. They had just a few minutes to evacuate the fire was moving so fast up that canyon before it shot out the west side like a blowtorch into the Coffee Park neighborhood.

The place he was living at burned to the ground in no time. He lost every personal possession he owned. Took us about 6 hours to track him down to a church he had been evacuated to. When we picked him up he wearing just his underwear and a robe. The main thing is he is alive and with us now.

I was LE for four decades in the Bay Area. I worked and lived through the Loma Prieta Quake, responded with mutual aid to the Oakland Hills Fire and was on a recovery team in the aftermath of the San Bruno PG&E fire. While all those were horrific, they don't match the total devastation I saw in Santa Rosa yesterday.