Pray for Redding Ca.

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Thanks for the thoughts and good wishes, guys - it's been a hellish nightmare here the past several days.

I am on the west aide of Redding and the fire burned around me. I didn't have to evacuate, though it came VERY close to that point. The Carr fire started on Monday, 23 June east of Whiskeytown Lake, about 10 miles east of me, as the crow flies. By Wednesday morning, they had the fire close to 10% contained but a sudden shift in weather caused the fire to literally explode during the early hours of Thursday. It was then, it it became a firestorm and roared eastward, tearing through the Goldrush town of Shasta, the community of Keswick and on into west Redding. The evening of Thursday saw the fire get within a half mile north of my place, where it jumped the Sacramento river and turned north. At the same time, it also turned south, heading toward other communities.

The firefighters were able to slow it's advance on Redding, but in the following days, it quadrupled it's size, completely encircling Whiskeytown Lake and growing to the west, entering Trinity County, threatening the town of Lewiston, which is currently evacuated.

So far, there have been 933 homes lost, roughly 5,000 homes still under threat. There have been 6 fatalities: 2 firefighters and four civilians, two of whom were children. Many areas of tje Redding area remain under evacuation and there are still isolated areas of fire continuing to burn in Redding city limits.

The fire is currently at just shy of 100,000 acres and is almost 25% contained.

This is a current map of the fire, Redding is at the far-right edge of the fire:


And this is a zoom of west Redding - Find the word "REDDING" on the map, the first "D" in Redding is my exact location.
By the way, for those who may have heard me mention Benton Field (O85), that's it's location there, a little west of my home.
 
Ok...I'll toss out a couple pix before I go to bad.
Been a long day, as my Mom, who lives in Trinity county to the west, is now under threat from the fire - problem is, I cannot get to her to help, as the only way over is currently engulfed by the fire.

Anyway, the afternoon of Thursday, the skies darkened and the sun became a dull red and thick ashes started falling here about 2 in the afternoon. My cat (Momiche) was absolutely enthralled by these - as they weren't birds, bugs or leaves. She didn't know what to think, but literally sat there in the same spot staring for nearly 5 hours (the photo was taken about 4:30 p.m.) - look closely and you can see the ashes on the deck.


I went up to the Plateau (other side of Benton Field) to the west of my place to grab some photos and this was one of them, showing the fire bearing down on town about 7:48 p.m. Thursday evening.

I'll share some more photos and give some updates tomorrow - it's been a very long day (and week)...
 
Will have to hope and pray for her safety and well being.
 
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