Reply to "Pantera safe in Ventura, Ca fire"

That must be George Walker's red 5S Pantera. He lives a block or two away from Doug Fawcett, whose forum name is Dougo. Keep them in your thoughts.

6018 is locked away in a storage unit at the Ventura marina, safe and sound. Debbie, the dogs, and I are fine.

Debbie and I jumped in her car around mid-night last night and drove away with the fire rushing down the hillside east of our home. Last night changed my perspective of palm trees. All the other shrubbery and ground cover decorating the roadway where we live was fine, but the palm trees lining the road went-up like roman candles. From now on whenever I see a palm tree, I'll have that image in my mind. Palm trees are the last things you want growing near your home when there's a fire. There are scorched palm trees about 15 feet from Debbie's parking spot, 35 feet from our condo. The condo escaping the fire borders on the miraculous.

That formerly green hillside east of our home is now blackened, nothing left to burn. Ventura's sky looks like Tokyo's sky the morning after Godzilla visited. Thick smoke emanating from scorched hill sides filling the sky.