What to Take From a Fire
(Reflections on the Los Angeles fire, now burning near my home)
Surely, you’ve seen or read about the fires in LA. Our home is on the rim of that fire. People I know well are on the other side of that rim, and some of them saw their homes—perfectly sound twenty-four hours ago—reduced to burnt cinder and ash.
At about 7:30 yesterday evening, my wife and I got word that it was time to evacuate our home and seek shelte…