My name is Orly Israel. I live with my family in the Pacific Bosphates. I found out about the fire.

About, it must have been like 10 a.m. when someone texted me, is everything okay?

To which I said about what? And I said, the fire. And I looked at the window and there's this huge

bloom of smoke just coming over the

mountains so it's big and you know lifting Los Angeles there are fires around fairly often and

you know seeing smoke is is an unusual thing.

But this was really close.

And we start getting automatic evacuation warning.

And the fire was getting closer and closer, and you could see it from the bedroom window.

You could see the flames waterfall down this hill towards the town.

The embers were just flying to the sky, like a rain of fire.

And the sound of a fire, I never would have thought the sound, you know, it sounds like an airport.

It's busy and blazing.

We have these two garden hoses and, you know, a bush would catch on fire and we'd spray the bush, and then

another bush would get on fire, and, you know, eventually the fence got on fire, the wooden

fence between our house and the next house, and it was just too hot and too many embers, and

couldn't get close enough to it to spray it with the hose without

getting burned.

I went, you know,

should we fight this?

We were wearing swimming,

you know, pool goggles and

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