If you read to the end of my last post, you already know that a wildfire was threatening my neighborhood and I promised an update.
While the Border 2 fire has grown to 6,500 acres / 2,650 hectares since then and continues to burn, it no longer threatens my neighborhood thanks to the heroic efforts of our firefighters and a change in wind direction.
Of course, Mother Nature and wildfires are fickle things, and there’s always a possibility it could head back in this direction.
Here’s a photo grabbed off of social media that shows the fire from about 18 miles / 29 km away. (He misspoke when he said that fire was southwest of San Diego; it’s southeast.)
Screenshot of a social media post about the fireCourtesy of Dan Zeller
My neighborhood was under an “evacuation advisory,” and it definitely was an interesting but unpleasant exercise to walk through my home and figure out what was coming with me if I had to evacuate and what was staying behind.
Fortunately from a property loss perspective, the fire has been contained to a wilderness area with few structures on its outskirts.
We’re expecting our first rain in months over the weekend, and that should help with the firefighting efforts as well.
I’m safe, but let’s not do this again anytime soon.
This post originally appeared January 25, 2025, on Dan’s Journey Through Prostate Cancer. It is republished with permission.
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