Feeling The Heat

Almost a year to the day that last year's never-ending Zaca Fire, Santa Barbara is fighting yet another blaze. The Gap Fire began almost a week ago, on July 1st and has burned 9600 acres to date. The good news is that the fire threat to most of Goleta has been pretty much contained. (Officials listed the fire as 35% contained.) Residents who had been ordered out of their homes late last week have been allowed to return home. However, some evacuation orders ares still in effect for residents of the smaller mountain communities nearby.

Thankfully, our home is not threatened. We only have to deal with the falling ash and power outages (which happened last night - a few minutes before the season finale of The Bachelorette! Talk about bad timing...)

I have to share this amazing picture...

The latest price tag for efforts to fight the Gap Fire is $9.3 million...and growing.