My neighborhood was on fire yesterday.

Here’s a picture I took-

The local news pretty much ignored the fire, but CNN had hours of live coverage if you happened to be watching.

We walked five minutes to the reservoir near our house to take pictures and watch the helicopters fill up with water…and to watch things burn with like five hundred other looky-loos.

I shot some action-packed video:

Luckily the Santa Anas were blowing away from our house so we didn’t have to evacuate this time. But we were ready just in case!