Well, I can give a first hand evacuee account for this fire. My parents live in an area of Yorba Linda that is still under mandatory evacuation and we don't know the status of their neighborhood.
My DH, DB & I were all up at their house yesterday to help load up everything & we were evacuated around noon. By the time they evacuated us, the fire was already down in the riverbed below my parents and we had to be diverted to the 91 freeway. As we were driving down the main road to get to the freeway we had flames on the side of us down in the riverbed.
Once the on the 91 we became trapped as the fire hopped the freeway & we were all stuck at various points on the freeway. My mom and I were about 6 cars back from where they stopped everyone & we had flames on boths sides of us at a lot of points in the hour plus we were stuck. The pictures I am posting are from my DH's camera and he was a little farther back from us - the flames up the hill in the shots was basically directly across from where we were stopped. My Dad and DB were the farthest back and were stuck next to a large sound wall - where at points the flames we licking over the top of that wall.
The finally started to turn traffic around to head us the wrong way up our toll road off ramp, only to turn us around to head us back down the other side to the 91 east - where again, the fire was right on the side of us. Due to the 91 now being completely closed, we were forced out to Corona. The only way we had to get back to get back to Orange County was to head down to San Diego to head over to the 5. We finally got my parents, us and their Golden Retriever back to our condo in South Orange County around 7pm last night.
My parents are still here with us and right now we have no idea when they will be lifting the evacuation. If you are inclined to do so, please keep my parents and everyone affected by the fires in your prayers.
~Krista
DH's best friend lives there. Waiting for a reply from them to an e-mail sent.
