Waiting Joan C King Waiting followed by waiting followed by waiting I’ve waited before for my 16th birthday to get my driver’s license to enter the convent to leave the convent to get married to get divorced to love again Waiting now is different. It lives in the place of no space of no time [...]
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it's destination full of hope. Maya Angelou FIRE OVERVIEW Night shift crews reported that the fire burned actively on the west flank. On the southeast flank, crews will work on line construction in the Redstone Canyon area (our canyon). Structure protection [...]
A fire-line has been established in the northern part of Redstone Canyon. If this holds, our homes in the southern part of the canyon will be safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The blue circle = position of our home The blue line = position of the fire-line, about 2.5 miles away
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While is sounds encouraging to be 50% contained - our area remains close to an active zone on the aggressive edge of this fire. The good news, is that there has been a lot less smoke from inside the original burn areas, and a lot more firefighters and tankers are on the fire. The blow [...]
Tonight our home is still standing. The map on the left is the High Park Fire map for today - the map on the right is a Google Satellite map of our home (Bubble labelled A) Arrows point to Highway 14 in the fire map - Highway 14 is labelled at the top of the Google [...]
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Click here to listen to "A Jolt of Joan" "SAFETY?" Extremely dry, windy conditions stoked the High Park Fire on Sunday, prompting hundreds more evacuation notices and grounding firefighting aircraft for hours. “These are the conditions that kill people — kill firefighters — and we don’t want that,” fire information officer Brett Haberstick said, [...]
The fire is in the canyon. The first house has been lost. It was the home of a firefighter. From the Evacuation Center