Soufie, how are you?

Sad fact is, many of the fires will be determined
to be caused by arson.

Aww thanks for inquiring..we are just fine for now, without
power we had to run the car to hear the radio to see where
we stood, a few blocks from the 'must flee' zone which has
stayed firm so far.

I hear evacuees have had a nightmare experience, the first
batch were sent inland after reaching the Red Cross evacuation
center in Newport and filled up every available space such
that peeps have to keep moving, looking for shelter with
limited resources.

Horrible to think it was preventable.

When you live on the coast, surrounded by an ocean and a Bay,
you do not expect to have to evacuate due to forest fires
miles away.

Then my town started catching on fire, post office burned down,
golf course set afire, hospital shut own and evacuated and
suddenly we are put on alert to flee, and only one way to go
and a 2-lane route south, toward more fires..to go it on.

Then they have to turn off all power (imagine, by choice) because
the heat was causing transformers to explode, so they preclude
this by cutting off all power.

So you are either sealed inside your house in 90* weather with no
way of cooling or you crack a window and all the smoke pours in..
or you evacuate. They draw a line on the map and at a certain point
they will force you to go, and if you go the wrong way, you will
be arrested as a terrorist (a policeman told us this.)

Anyway, we sheltered in place and the cutoff line is up the street.
The air smells fresh, the wind has changed direction, the temperatures
have dropped 20 degrees, looks good. Power back on..for now.

They have not yet allowed evacuees back.

Lincoln City, Oregon 9/10/2020
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/09/fires-burning-near-lincoln-city-scorch-2400-acres-determined-to-be-human-caused.html

That is very Sad ! How was it preventable though ??