Fire and Brimstone on the Hill

I've always joked with my wife about Orange County being one of those places that will be completely annihilated at the Second Coming, not unlike the cities of Capernaum or Moroni in the scriptures. It's all fun and games until I wake up Sunday morning to the smell of smoke and falling ash. It seems like these wildfires are happening every year now - last year my former boss got a call from her husband informing her that he was evacuating the house because of fire danger. "What do you want me to bring with me?" he asked her. Even though the fire seems to be under control now, it's still scary to think that such a "small-scale" blaze could turn the sky black and the moon red. I guess a person doesn't have to be evacuated to be shaken up by a fire on the hill.

UPDATE: I just received word that my former boss was evacuated this time, too. She just got back home this afternoon. Things are ok in her neck of the woods. At least for now...

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