Perhaps most sobering were the reminders of daily lives interrupted.

Child’s swing set and part of a fence; the houses on both sides of that fence are gone:

A shed or possibly a backyard garage:

Basketball hoop:

What appears to have been a Jeep in the debris of a garage:

A panel of burned, twisted garage door between the Jeep and the driveway:

This one looks like a Mustang:


This looks like maybe it was a clothes dryer:

One mailbox warped and melted, the other one fine; both houses gone:

Metal garbage can, basketball hoop, nothing else recognizable:

Play equipment, twisted and warped but still standing; scrub oak burned, charred, and alive, all in very close proximity; house gone:

Window screen abandoned on a hillside below a badly damaged house:

Sign outside one of the destroyed houses:

Still more to come…

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