My friend Jeff Hailpern up in Castaic shot these pictures that I am using with his permission. In his brief email there was some reassurance that at least his place will be fine. Jeff wrote:

” Our finest Fire Fighters in action. These guys rock.
If you can use them be my guest.
Looks like this thing is going blow west of me (fingers cross’d)
Jeff”

A few more after the jump

And there you go at least one person who may be out of the woods soon thanks to a lot of firefighters really busting their hump to get the job done!