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**We have been allowed to come home**

Yes, we have been evacuated again. This fire is closer to where we live. It was started when SCE shut the power off. Some guy who had not been maintaining his generator, switched it on: it exploded.

We're fine. The cats are fine.

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Wildfires can be random in their advance.

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The fire was hot enough here that it changed the color of the leaves -- an unusual genesis for fall colors.

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