I just lost my drain of thought

It is so weird when a fire actually hits close to home. I hear about forest fires all the time in SoCal, but it’s never really that close to me. I also hear stories about people who are affected by Fire Season, with my friends from San Diego actually having to evacuate the area and come home when the SD Fires hit, but it’s still not the same as actually seeing the flames spread right before your own eyes. A little more than half a day ago, a fire started around the Chantry Flats area in the San Gabriel Mountains. It was crazy because not that long after it started, I saw the smoke coming from that area and wondered what it was. As Allison, Wendy and I headed towards Pasadena, we saw a huge cloud of smoke and figured there was a fire and hoped it was contained. As it got closer to nighttime, it was more apparent just how big this fire was, but it still looked sort of contained. We decided to go to the mall parking structure’s roof to get a better view and I was pretty shocked, because I could actually see it moving and growing, heading northwest ever so quickly.  I heard from someone and read that there were boy scouts stuck up there for a little bit because of the fire, as well as a few hikers. It is still pretty hard to believe, but each time I see that orange glow north of where I live, I remember that it’s really there and people are being evacuated from their homes and firefighters are risking there lives to put the fires out. It’s pretty mindblowing. From what I know so far, no one was hurt and I hope it stays that way. What is weird for me is that there was no news about it on television at all, but it is right in front of me. I’m thinking it’s because it isn’t a huge fire or anything, but it’s something that I can actually see for once, so it is breaking news to me. There is practically no news about it online, not even in the San Gabriel Weekly, but I found three articles upon Googling “fire santa anita” (and yes, I have tried several other searches but this one came up with the most), which are this one, this one, and this one. The funny thing is, the earliest one to come out was from a San Franciscan news site AND the one from the LA Times has like a bunch of incorrect info. Way to keep an eye out for your county, newspaper.

Sorry the pics are a little fuzzy: