Creek Fire

Here we were helpin' our hooman clean ALL the window sills after that fire.  We're always tryin' to help out around the house, know what I mean?  The smokey smell inside the house was gone but we had to get rid of all that black, dirty, smelly soot stuff in the window sills.  Otherwise, it was going to smell up our house again when we opened our windows.

You can see in this video that it wasn't just hoomans and little animals that had to evacuate, it was big animals too. I'm not afraid to admit it,  I was worried. We didn't know what was going on. There were orange pieces of something flying through the air - our hooman said they were hot embers.

I don't know about my siblings but I was terrified.  The wind kept tossing things at the back of our house all night.  We tried to sleep.  I crawled under the covers. I never did sleep. Our hooman finally went to sleep but then she woke up and ran to the windows, threw open the shutters and ran out of the house.  We kept hearing that "chop-chop-chop" noise over our house.

We're helpin' Meowmuh clean soot from the window sills. The wind & the fire made our house a mess. Meowmuh says we are just glad that we have a house to clean. So many others don't. How is their Christmas going to be? They might not even be with their hoomans. That's too hard.

If you can't see this video, click on the Title Above. Here's another video showing the smoke that enveloped everything. The worst part was the strong wind gusts that blew embers onto us while Meowmuh & Auntie Rika loaded their cars.Thank goodness Auntie Rika was able to get to us to help. Freeways were closed so Aunties Laurel & Sharon couldn't get to us.

If you can't see the video, click on the Title above. Meowmuh included some videos of the fire so you can see how scary it was. She woke up after 4 AM to the noise of planes & helicopters flying over our house. She looked outside. The sky behind the mountains was bright orange--like a sunrise except it was too early for that. She opened a door & we could smell smoke.

The hoomans let the four of us out of our module for a few hours every day. I admit, I went crazy. I raced 'round the room & up & down those cat trees. The hoomans told Meowmuh they'd never seen anything like it. Meowmuh said: "That's Spirit." The only problem was, the hoomans didn't feed us our food so we all got sick. Gracee didn't eat for a week.

On 12/6 (Wed), we evacuated from Auntie Rika's to here--the second level of this module. I'm to the far left, Spirit's next to me; Gracee's hiding & Inkee-Bear's too dark to be seen. There's a handsome orange cat, Henri, below us. Best part? Going HOME on 12/8 (Fri)! Thanks to the fire fighters, skilled pilots with their night vision goggles & police for saving our home.

We had to evacuate just after 4:30 AM on Tuesday, December 5. The wind was blowing so hard, the smoke was so thick, ashes & embers--Meowmuh told Auntie Rika & us to "Stay calm" but we were scared. We went to Auntie Rika's house to spend the night but the next day we had to evacuate from her house. So we went to the Best Little Cat House in Pasadena.