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Santa Rosa Fire-2017

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Little House on the Trailer for Santa Rosa Fire Recovery

Little House on the Trailer for Santa Rosa Fire Recovery

I just received a call from a client for whom are we replacing a Home Care Cottage that was destroyed in the Santa Rosa Fire.

Current County policy is to issue permits for temporary occupancy of Home Care Cottages and Accessory Dwelling Units for a period of two years. Burdensome application requirements are being waived. Our client’s visit lasted 30 minutes and he came away with a permit for…

[littlehouseonthetrailer]

Little House on the Trailer for Santa Rosa Fire Recovery

Little House on the Trailer for Santa Rosa Fire Recovery

I just received a call from a client for whom are we replacing a Home Care Cottage that was destroyed in the Santa Rosa Fire.

Current County policy is to issue permits for temporary occupancy of Home Care Cottages and Accessory Dwelling Units for a period of two years. Burdensome application requirements are being waived. Our client’s visit lasted 30 minutes and he came away with a permit for…

[kurulover]

I took a walk in the burned area today.

[debbieplaistowe]

New life after the fire. Already shoots of new green grass grows through the blackened earth.

[luannudell]

LESSONS FROM THE FIRE: "Safe" Is Relative

LESSONS FROM THE FIRE: “Safe” Is Relative

This weekend’s post for Fine Art Views, a free art marketing newsletter from Fine Art Studios Online We are never truly safe. And that’s OK.  It’s been exactly one week since Jon woke me, telling me we might have to evacuate from the now-infamous Santa Rosa Fire. More manpower and resources, and less wind, have helped to contain the fires. Last night, we finally left our home, together, for a…

[theindiemaglv-blog]

http://www.theindiemag.com/tubbs-fire-santa-rosa-california/

[prayersforpets1org]

Family dog "Izzy" emerges alive and well from California wildfires

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Family dog "Izzy" emerges alive and well from California wildfires

Izzy’s reunion with members of her owner’s family has gone viral in the aftermath of devastating wildfires in California (AP Photo/Jonathan Copper)

Jack Weaver and his brother-in-law Patrick Widen walked around police barricades, through a creek and up treacherous hilly roads to save Weaver’s mother from the grim task of recovering the body of the family’s beloved dog Izzy.

Katherine Weaver was convinced Izzy died in a ferocious wildfire that destroyed their Northern California neighborhood and sent them fleeing for safety, Katherine still in her nightgown.

When the men reached the end of the narrow road on Tuesday, Jack Weaver swore as he saw that the house was completely gone. But then Izzy suddenly came bounding out for a joyous reunion.

Jack Weaver, who was filming the scene for his parents, captured the moment on his phone in a video that’s gone viral on Facebook, providing a rare bit of good news amid endless scenes of severe destruction.

“She was very happy to see us,” Weaver said of Izzy, a 9-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog. “She’s such a brave dog. She was panting a lot and clearly stressed. But she was not frantic or anything.”

In the frantic race to escape in the middle of the night, the Weavers and many others were forced to leave behind their pets because they couldn’t be found or there was simply no time to get them. Thousands of people remained evacuated Saturday as fires continued to rage in California’s wine country and authorities said it was still too dangerous to return to burned-out neighborhoods of Santa Rosa.

Cellphone service was sketchy, but Weaver was eventually able to reach his mother, who was staying with relatives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“She just lost it,” Weaver said. “She went from being devastated about losing her home to the being the happiest person I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t get home fast enough. She was really, really happy … She’s still shaken up by the whole thing, but she’s in much better spirits now that Izzy is at our house.”

Animal care workers are working overtime to feed and provide medical care for the pets who survived the inferno.

For Weaver, his first priority was telling his mother that Izzy survived.

A veterinarian said Izzy was fine, likely insulated from the fire’s intense heat by her thick fur coat.

At Sonoma County Animal Services, veterinarians and assistants are caring for 64 cats and 44 dogs, nearly all of them brought in from fire zones. Cats generally have the most severe injuries, including smoke inhalation, burned paws or singed fur and whiskers.

“The severity is often terrible,” said Dr. Katie McKenzie, the lead veterinarian. “Their paw pads are burned off. Or if they aren’t, they come off in the days following. So our goal is to treat them, to remove the tissue that is too burned to be saved and to provide them with pain medication, bandaging.”

Caretakers will change the bandages every 48 hours for as long as six to eight weeks, she said.

Shelter workers update their website every hour with photos of the pets they’ve rescued, and they’re fielding frantic calls from worried pet owners searching for their furry companions. Twenty five animals have been reunited with their owners, said Monica Argenti, a spokeswoman for the shelter, which is run by the county.

Credit: FoxNews/AP

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A California couple awoke to flames crackling. They couldn’t flee. So they jumped in their pool.

By Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, October 13, 2017

Daniel Pomplun jolted awake. It was 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, and he heard the crackling of flames. He noticed the power was out, and he rose from bed and went to the window.

They had been fast asleep, and Daniel and his wife, Cindy, had missed the warnings. The residents of Santa Rosa, Calif., had been evacuating for more than three hours already as the rapidly spreading wildfire approached. The red glow through the window told Daniel it was too late. The fire was here.

“Cindy! Wake up!” Pomplun, 54, shouted, shaking her. “We’ve got to go!”

They threw on the closest clothing: for Cindy, a light T-shirt and cargo pants, and for Daniel, a Minnesota Vikings sweatshirt and University of Minnesota sweatpants. They grabbed the car keys and ran to the front door.

For 17 years, the Pompluns had lived in this two-story moss-green home in rural Santa Rosa. There is just one road out of their neighborhood. After Daniel’s frantic fingers found the knob of the front door and pulled it open, he saw the fire had leapt over the driveway. The only pathway to safety was blocked by the flames surging toward them.

The choice had been made for them.

“We’re going to stay here as long as possible,” Daniel instructed Cindy, recalling a television show he’d watched about wildfires that had suggested it would be safer to be inside at the height of the flames rather than out on foot among them. “And then we’ll run.”

If the house caught fire and there was nowhere to turn, he thought to himself, they could make a dash to the swimming pool, where maybe they could wait out the blaze.

Authorities in Northern California are still assessing the damage from the most devastating, and deadliest, spate of wildfires to strike the state in modern history. With at least 17 blazes still burning as of Friday, officials say thousands of people remain displaced and at least 36 have been confirmed dead.

More than 220,000 acres of land have been scorched in the past week, and the fires have encroached upon--and in some cases leveled--residential areas, forcing people to leave behind houses full of their belongings. Search parties have begun sifting through the ashes of felled homes, looking for the bodies of those who couldn’t escape.

For the next half-hour, Daniel and Cindy stood in the window of the sunroom and watched as their neighborhood ignited and charred. Soon, their garage caught fire, thrusting smoke into the house through the second-floor crawl space.

It was pitch black except for the approaching red-and-orange glow. The sunroom had filled with smoke, with just a foot or so of air left. It was about 2 a.m. It was past time to go.

Daniel carried their passports, a bottle of water and a pair of kitchen towels. Cindy clutched the cat tight against her chest. They slid open the sunroom door and began to run.

To the left, they could see flames on the roof. To the right, red dots speckling the far-off hills seemed to be leaping closer. The cat shed was a pile of ash. Sishi wriggled her way from Cindy’s arm, leaping to the ground and disappearing into the darkness.

The grass beneath their feet was crispy and black. The air was chilly and smoky.

They reached the edge of the swimming pool. They stuck one foot after the other into the cold water. Once they were shoulder-deep, they draped wet towels over their heads.

The flames danced across the roof and rolled down the sides of their home.

Then came the popping, as the fire reached the 100 rounds of shotgun and rifle ammunition in one of the upstairs bedrooms. The oak tree just to the north of the pool became a bouquet of fire. Then the pine tree to the west did too. Both trees loomed overhead, the flames licking the darkness.

They stayed as far away from the burning home as they could, but they didn’t want to wander deeper into the pool than where they could stand.

After about 30 minutes in the water--the height of the fire around them--the back wall of the house was fully engulfed in flames, pounding their faces with cruel, raw heat. Their heads were burning, faces blistering. Their bodies shivered, shaking uncontrollably beneath the cold water.

During the worst moments, they completely submerged under the cold water, holding their breath for as long as they could, bobbing up for air.

They discussed the things they were losing, watching as room after room of their five-bedroom home burned. The reality of what couldn’t be recovered--the photographs, the mementos from college, the souvenirs from family vacations--settled in. But for most of their time in the water, the adrenaline robbed them of any focus other than staying alive.

The house collapsed, and the fire moved on. Their melted and sagging cars sat where the garage had been. A single surviving squirrel ventured down from an untouched tree branch and approached what remained of the Pompluns’ home before retreating. Maybe, Daniel suggested to Cindy, it was time they came out of hiding, too.

As the songs of a few returning birds marked the sunrise, the shivering Pompluns slowly emerged from the water. The concrete path was still warm, the ruins around them smoldering. They lay down together and embraced for warmth as their clothes hung from the metal frame of what was once a poolside table.

Occasionally a helicopter or plane would fly overhead, so Daniel arranged stones on the patio to send a message: “NEED EVAC.” Cindy went searching for Sishi, finding her snuggled beneath a juniper bush. She came out to cuddle for a few moments before sneaking back under the bush, refusing to budge.

Daniel decided it was time to start walking, but they both needed to find shoes. As he surveyed the neighborhood, he spotted a single house that seemed untouched. The back screen door was open, so they let themselves in. They found two pairs of flip-flops that fit, and a hat to cover Cindy’s head from the sun. They took a few pieces of paper, and a pen, and shoved a couple of bottles of water into a brown paper bag.

Daniel left a note on the floor, apologizing for what he’d taken and promising it would be returned. Around noon they started walking, changing the message in stones outside their home to: “WALK OUT.”

A white pickup truck drove past, as a group made their way back into the neighborhood to check on friends who lived nearby. About a mile farther up the road they found a sheriff’s deputy.

“Come on,” the deputy shouted out to them. “I’ll get you to the shelter.”

They spent the rest of the day huddled at a metal folding table in a shelter at a high school in Windsor, making a trip to the hospital to check for smoke inhalation, plotting out how to best fill prescriptions for their burns and figuring out how to get new phones.

That night they slept in the shelter. When people walked across the parquet floor, it made a loud popping sound, reminiscent of their oak tree burning.

“It took a long time to fall asleep that first night,” Daniel said.

Daniel’s employer--where he works as a software engineer--helped them find temporary housing and got them a borrowed car so they could go to the bank and get new credit cards and the eye doctor to each be fitted for new glasses. The insurance claims have been filed for their home and cars.

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[debbieplaistowe]

Tubbs Fire, Santa Rosa

[luannudell]

FIRE SEASON

You can read this article at today’s today’s Fine Art Views, or read it here: by Luann Udell on 10/14/2017 5:01:35 AM This post is by Luann Udell, regular contributing author for FineArtViews. She’s blogged since 2002 about the business side–and the spiritual inside–of art. She says, “I share my experiences so you won’t have to make ALL the same mistakes I did….”  For ten years, Luann also wrote…

[thatluckyrabbiit]

It's really started to hit me about the fires and whatnot, how many people I know are affected, how many people have lost their homes here, how many people have died now.... it's been crazy. And I've been so scared and stressed these past couple of days and it's starting to take a toll on me. I've spent this whole day crying thinking about all of it, it's really hit me today how tragic and devastating this all is

[poeticpowers]

Please boost!

For people in the Sanoma/Santa Rosa fires

For those displaced or know someone who is, please share this list of organizations offering the following for free.

FREE FOOD / WATER:

• Amy’s Drive Thru in Rohnert Park: Free meals to those evacuated.

• Nopalito: Free burritos from 11AM-3PM (1905 Bodega Avenue).

• McGuires: Free food.

• Mystic Theatre/McNears: Serving free breakfast 9AM-11AM, lunch (soup and sandwiches) from 12PM-3PM, and dinner from 5PM-8PM. They can deliver or make meals to go too. Contact them directly at 707-765-2121.

• Sauced BBQ Restaurant: Serving free food from 9AM-4PM and offering a place to rest.

• Quinua Restaurant: Serving free lunch.

• Lagunitas Tap Room: Giving away free water. Bring containers and they will fill them.

• Amy’s in Rohnert Park: Serving free food. All money donated there will be given to families in need.

• The Drawing Board: Offering food deliveries to those in need, plus a special menu for firefighters and victims.

FREE WIFI / COMPUTERS:

• Comcast FREE Internet/Comcast/Xfinity: Removed restrictions and opened their WiFi hotspots for all to use through Friday, 10/13. Log in as “Guest”.

• Copperfield’s Books Petaluma: Free wifi, allows dogs, water, stickers, and crayons for children.

• Mystic Theatre/McNears/The Roaring Donkey: Offering laptops to use if they need to get a hold of their financial institutions or family members. Ask for Sierra Bradley.

• Roaring Donkey: Has laptops with wifi and phone chargers.

FREE HEALTH / WELLNESS:

• Petaluma Swim Center: Offering free showers 8:30AM-10:30AM and 3:00PM-5:30PM. (Soap, shampoo, and towels provided.)

• Synergy Health Club: Offering free showers plus towels to those in need. As well as, indoor space away from the smoke.

FREE SPACE INDOORS:

• Adventure Recreation: Located at 2200 Petaluma Blvd. N. will be open until 6PM for kids to play indoor and away from all the smoke.

• Petaluma Bowling Alley: Offering a free space to be away from the smoke.

• California Academy of Sciences: Free, safe place for families during the day and indoors away from all the smoke.

PETS / ANIMAL BOARDING:

• Petaluma Animal Shelter Snuggle Shuttle @ Petaluma Community Center at Luchessi Park: Offering pet food, water, boarding, and lost and found pet information. (707-778-7387).

• Strong’s Second Chance Ranch: Offering to home horses. Can be reached via Messenger on Facebook.

• Chanslor Ranch Bodega Bay: Offering free beds and campsite. Kid and pet friendly. (707-875-2721).

• Sonoma Humane Society: Located at 5345 Highway 12 West, Santa Rosa. Taking in animals for boarding, lost and found animals. No cost vet treatment for burn victims, owned or stray animals affected by fires. Open 8AM-5PM.

• Unleashed Dog Training: Offering boarding. (707-763-9882).

• Marin Humane Society: Offering free boarding.

• Miscellaneous Animal Issues: Anyone encountering animal related issues can call 707-565-4406. This number will be available 24/7 until further notice. Donations can also be made through this line. Please be prepared to share information about the number of animals, type of animals, address and location for the animals, and any information about the families associated with the animals, if known.

[thisladylovesherotp]

Update: Hey loves, I’m not in the mood for making or reblogging post/gifs atm... My heart is heavy and sad because of what’s happening in my county right now. I am not currently in Santa Rosa. I just went to my aunt's place which is far from where the fire is (Sonoma County).  My mom and most of my friends are still in there, and I’m keeping a close eye on them. I’m still worried about what’s happening. Strong winds are starting to pick up which means there are higher chances of fire to spread and get worst (hopefully not). 

Devastating wildfire news: x x x

Thank you for understanding.