fires across the southland

it's crazy how one fire starts and then it just spreads. first it was malibu and agua caliente, and then irvine/ portola ranch / santiago canyon, and then ontario. i called my sister to see how they were and she said that they could see the flames prety far away so they were ok. apparently you could see the fires from our stairwell at work last night. then when i saw the news where there was a fire in ontario off of schaeffer i thought about our house (schaeffer is about 4 main streets away from us). so i called joey and he said that he didn't see or hear anything. so he took a stroll outside and it was mass wind and dust/ ash but he didn't see flames but all of the little trees that they planted in our neighborhood have blown over. as i was driving home this morning, the sky was completely gray - it was so nasty. and then the sky was red again - just like in lord of the rings - when legolas notices the red sky and says "blood has been shed this fortnight" he's so hot when he says that ... anyway, hopefully these things get contained because it's seriously getting hard to breathe.