Chariot Fire

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This blaze has caused the mandatory evacuation of our last meet and greet campground and surrounding areas on Mt. Laguna off Sunrise Highway.

Derrick - thoughts and prayers that your beautiful little cabin nearby is ok and will be spared! All the best my friend.
 
Hopefully Derrick's place is being spared. If not, he's got a great clean up crew here on Mud ready to help!
 
Pretty sure Derrick's cabin was unaffected as were the Horse Heaven and Laguna campgrounds. It seems the fire affected the Al Bahr Shrine camp which is very close (1/2 mile maybe?).

We had reservations up there this weekend too. Luckily we were able to reschedule for August. I thought for sure the CG would be closed the rest of the season.
 
Thanks for everyone's concern and well wishes and prayers. There were moments when I thought for sure the cabin would be lost but miraculously on Monday evening the winds shifted back to the desert and the fires progress towards the cabin halted. We have received emails that all of the Laguna meadow cabins have been spared. Below is a pic of the burn area and I marked the location of the cabin with the red dot. Too close for comfort! The roads should be open tomorrow so I am going to try and get up there this weekend.

Thanks again,

Derrick

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Here is another picture showing how close the fire came to the cabin. If you look at the black tip on the white antenna just to the right of the Helo Pad, that is where the cabin is located.

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Glad you and yours are fine. I just happened to be up there on my maiden voyage on my LC.

Got some pics from a different point.

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