Thanks for the well wishes. I personally am not in any area affected other than smokey skies. That has cleared well in the past few days.
To the comments about building where it's more appropriate, I don't think there's any areas of CA where anyone would want to live that didn't have fire, flood, or earthquake issues. They made that into "Feinstein's Forest" (Mojave National Preserve), the least visited part of CA. With the drought being a cyclical thing fires have always been a part of these places. The coastal range near Malibu inland to I-101 has burned every decade or so, sometimes twice that.
It seems to me that the solution is an engineering issue. In this case, materials and construction methods that are fire proof. Houses are made of fire fuels today. Attic spaces are designed to suck in air at the soffits and exhaust at the crowns of the roof. This sucks in fire embers and lights a house from inside the attic. It's a design that has to be fixed.
