The fire spread from 16,000 to now over 53,000 acres in the last 24 hours. I calculated at 640 acres per mile that is more than an 80 mile fire. The fire fighters are pushing the fire into the forest. They have succeeded in preventing any further structure or human fires. There are over 1000 fire fighters on the scene now, including the elite "A" team, the Navy Seals of fire fighting. The fire is moving mostly east and north which is really good for my family. The fire wants to move West towards us but the fire fighters are doing everything to prevent this, as that is where the population is (3000 people approximately).
I am going on my trip, I will bring my extra loved things with me. Everything else, I think I would be ok with losing so that is my plan.
Thank you again for all of your heartfelt concern, support and advice. There are 2000 homes closer to this fire and they are more threatened. They have it worse, as well as some of our other community hotels and restaurants. The only business in town that is open right now is the bar.
This is devastating our small business; our county Supervisors are trying to get disaster relief. We will lose $10-20,000 per week and up to $65,000 on a monthly basis from this. We have told some employees not to come in so they are suffering from loss of wages but it's too slow to merit our usual staffing level.
