San Diego fires

26 October 2003

I woke up to the sight of billowing smoke in the eastern and southern skies this morning. These were obviously not clouds, but smoke from a fire that I later heard was in Ramona, a town at least 20-30 miles to the east of us. Little did I realize that the fire would race through the brush and into the middle of San Diego within just a few hours. We watched the skies darken and kept abreast of TV news reports of homes being lost and fires jumping over 10-lane highways. Even with our windows shut, our eyes and throats are burning, but we've been very lucky so far, as the fires passed 10 or more miles to the east and south of us in its path toward the southwest. Unfortunately, the fire ripped through the communities of Scripps Ranch and Tierrasanta, and threatened businesses in Kearny Mesa and homes in the Clairemont area as well. Other fires in the Valley Center, Camp Pendleton, and Otay Lakes areas did significant damage elsewhere in the county.

DWL

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