News about SoCal fires (and us :) )

We just got back from checking our area in Fallbrook. Everything is fine in our subdivision. It was really dark though, so we couldn't see around anywhere to check on how much damage was in the surrounding areas. With any luck we'll be able to get back in tomorrow and see things in daylight.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, and don't forget to send up a couple of prayers for those who weren't as fortunate as us, and also for the firefighters who are working to put those fires out.

We met a bunch of them tonight when we were helping at the Fallbrook church to get food for them and all. very nice guys (and a really cool lady cop :) ) that told us about different places that they had fought fires around our area. Matt even got to talk to some that had battled the blaze near our home. It was a real pleasure to be able to do something other than being glued to the tv, radio or internet looking for news, and help feed all those hungry people and set up a computer where people could check their email and look at fire progress. They kept thanking us for putting things together for them and working to hard to feed them, but to me there's no comparing me in the kitchen cooking to them out in the middle of the smoke fighting the fires. But that's the nice part of talking to the firefighters, you were able to see how genuine and humble they were (plus hear some crazy firefighting stories ;) ).

Here are a few pictures from tonight, but more will be on the web album soon.

--di & matt (11:20 PM)





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We just got confirmation that our house is ok.

More news about this (and updated blog events) later.

--di & matt (3:34 PM)