Pardon this aside from orchids but......

[james mickelso]

Just wanted to show you all the devastation from the fire that almost got me last week. This fire spread so fast it almost caught me at work and I barely made it out the driveway before it closed off my only escape. This burned on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base here in California where I am a supervisor. From ignition a couple hundred yds from this facility to almost torching me took 5 mins. It burned for two days and swept across 5 miles by 3 miles. Stands of old 200 yr old oak are gone. It spread so fast that the vultures are feasting on deer that couldn't escape. I just wanted you all to see this tragedy. In the last shot you are looking 5 miles to the horizon. Careless stupid people. This was an arson fire.