Posted on July 3 at 9:49 p.m.

Boy, it's amazing how quickly things can happen. We lost our home in the Painted Cave Fire (we live about a mile up Old San Marcos Road in the AG zone)

We've been very vigilant with thisGAP fire... drove up the hill to check it 3 or 4 times today. Saw that it came over the ridge near Patterson so we packed up but weren't going to run just yet. We were closing house windows and watering our yard when I heard my husband yell for me to come look. A new fire was burning just 50 - 100 yards from our house just EAST of us! I guess embers flew all the way from the canyon between us and Patterson all the way past us!

I called 911 - there were five or six fire engines there within ten or twenty minutes, but wow.... it was fast.

Never got the reverse 911, don't know if my house is there, but if anybody up San Marcos Road (not the big "pass") has info, I'd love to hear! (We're at relatives house in SB and staying put till morning!)

I wish KEYT had more immediate news... feeling in the dark here... :(

dwl

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