We got an update from Terry's brother last night and they have their most important items packed and ready to leave their house if they need to evacuate. The fires have come pretty close to them in the last day or so. If we were still living there we would have had to evacuate our home, but so far its still standing.

Here's a little excerpt from their email.

"So yesterday, we spent most of the day watching the news, thinking, "Wow!"...but thinking we weren't really affected. But late last night, it started to change, and we kept watching it getting closer and closer because of the CRAZY wind. So I slept from 2-5 this AM, and Kristi slept from about 5-7. So we're kinda tired, but as it NOW looks, the wind is in our favor. Of course, the wind seems to shift every 5 minutes (and they predict these winds to last through Thursday), so we're still on alert. But Spencer gets to have fun on the roof with the hose, and Lucas gets 2 days off of school, so there's always a silver lining!"

Be in prayer for all those families that are out of their homes. Some will go back to rubble and some to the place they love...its a very traumatic time to say the least...and imagine what you would take if you just had a few minutes to grab things.

Agua Dulce "Buckweed" Wildfire:

Some of the fires in So Cal are dangerously close to our old neighborhood and there's an evacuation station set up at Amy & Kevin's old high school! If you click the link above to the map, imagine that we lived near Copper Hill and Bouquet Canyon Roads.


Here's more info as well.



We had some close calls when we lived there, but not as close as this is and there were times when there was so much soot and ash in the air that it looked like a war zone. We still have lots of friends and family that live in that area.

Those wildfires can be so unpredictable, especially with the strong winds they're having. There are wind gusts of up to 30 mph which is making the fires so difficult to contain. At least 25,000 acres have burned and mandatory evacuations are happening now.

I'm sure this is all very scary for them...so please keep them in your prayers.