We're burning up!

[Standback383]

Hey David, I bet your parents remember the Harmony Grove fire of '96 -- now that was scary! We had hot embers falling all around us as Harmony Grove burned and before La Costa Valley was built, there was nothing but dry brush. When HG was burning, my brother and I went and stood in the canyon and watched the hills across the street burn...our saving grace was the fact that my future high school, La Costa Canyon,had just been built....in fact, if I remember correctly, it wasn't even open at the time and given the fact it was a $45+ million school, they sent a ton of fire trucks down to the school to keep it from burning, which kept the fire from jumping around. We still had a shake shingle roof at the time and my dad, with a mask on, stood outside and soaked the roof and fence.........I need to dig out the photos we have of the air tankers flying over....some of them were so low that it was as if you could reach up and touch the belly of the planes. My cousin was actually on the news.....she has several acres in HG and tons of animals (rottweilers, roosters, parrots, cats...you name it) and as she frantically gathered her animals a news guy was shoving a microphone in her face. Her response? She started cussing at him and told him and his camera dude to put their $h!t down and help her get her animals ready to go. They listened to my cousin ...LOL.