Sunday evening into Monday morning.  Horrible acrid air.  Watching and waiting to see what the storm might do.  Spookily flat and quiet.  However, it seems we dodged a bullet.  Grateful.

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First of all, thank you all so much for the blip anniversary comments yesterday!  Lovely surprise, particularly at the moment.  8 years of documenting the quotidian.  An interesting document to have, particularly at the moment.

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Again, the below will be a brief on what's been happening with the CZU fire.


6 p.m. briefing 8/23: 8% contained, fire 74,000 acres, one decedent recovered.

Sheriff's office continuing arrests of people coming into evacuated areas and have looted the empty homes.

Increase in scams, there's been a scam GoFundMe, scams pretending to be PG&E, and others.

6 a.m. briefing 8/24: 13% contained, fire now 78,000 acres, 231 structures destroyed, 24,300 structures under threat, 1,511 fire fighters working on this fire in a combined team of Federal, State, Local, and out of state fire fighters. 4 missing persons.

No direct lightning strikes overnight from the storm, and the weather not as significant as expected.  Northern zone a control line has been established, Southern zone they've improved the already established control lines.


County Sheriff's Officers still dealing with burglary suppression.  Also pleading for homeowners to keep out as it's hampering safety, in San Mateo County 6 people entered the evacuation zone to check on their properties and then had to be rescued when trapped by fire.

One of the more upsetting incidents was one of the ground commanders while out directing firefighting crews had his wallet stolen from his truck and his bank account drained. 

That people prey on others during times of crisis is nothing new but I am finding it particularly hard at the moment.