Roger that.

At present we have a 100-mile long ridge line where two fires are about 40% contained. The current prognostication is that the winds will swing more from the West and steer the fires away from Julian and Pine Valley.

The areas that have now been extinguished are devastated, homes lying in ash and gutted cars bearing gruesome mute witness. Insurance assessors are moving in emergency vans and issuing first-response checks...we heard one interview with a couple who had been within 57 payments of owning the home that was just reduced to rubble, and under insured on it. It has been a week of tears in San Diego County, and I am glad it is drawing to a close.


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