WOW, best of luck Ted, prayers sent

Stay safe and good luck.

Update

Property is OK so far. They were using the pond out back to fill the helicopter buckets to drop on the fire. It looks like a major war was fought just down the street. They are saying around 60 homes and businesses are destroyed, but at least the Harley Davidson guys got the bikes out as the building was burning. There are many conflicting reports right now and it's still burning. All the animals are evacuated form the property(wild horse, 2 cows, bobcat, 3 dogs, 3 cats, 40+ chickens).

http://cbs13.com/local/auburn.vegetation.fire.2.1153210.html

Thanks for all the support.

Good luck, Ted. I sure pray that you're place will be spared. These are some terrible fires.

Yikes Ted! I hope everything turns out alright for you.

Take care of yourself and stay safe.

Good luck. I'd start making plans to bolt ASAP just in case. My wife's uncle lives real close to where the fire is now and he decided to roll out this morning since the fires up there are so unpredictable and he's been through tons of them.
I guess it gets old after a while.

Best wishes and keep safe.

Good luck, hope everyone will be safe.

Stay safe, we have a few bad ones up this way also

I'm glad to hear you're still OK. Not hearing anything had me worried for you. Out of curiosity, where do you take that many animals during an emergency?

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A bunch of friends made it in before the hi-way was closed and helped load them and we took them to a friends place. The nice thing about knowing horse people is they all have trailers and big trucks. Most of them have a fair amount of property also. They also go way out of their way to help when disaster strikes.

We were stuffing 25 chickens in a large dog crate, just to get them out. One of the cows stepped on my Mom's toe and broke it. but other than that everyone and everything made it out OK. There are still some gas fires(not sure why they are having trouble tuning off the gas) in some of the destroyed neighborhoods and they are still hosing down hot spots, but the worst looks to be over. There is one neighborhood about 1/4 mile away that has ONE house surviving. All the rest when burned. Amazing when you see it.

Here's a slideshow showing some of the damage.

http://www.kcra.com/slideshow/news/20646514/detail.html

Ted,

Thoughts and wished are with you pal. I know where you're coming from.
Spent the weekend evacuating my buddy's animals from his place due to forest
fire as well.
Yours is a massive, massive fire.
We've got 6 smaller ones in a bit of a circle around us here, but none that
close.

Keep safe, and remember, a building can be rebuilt, but you can't.

If you want to email off the list, send me a pm.

Dave