Tom's Bronco Parts

[knack]

I was looking to order something from Tom's today - and realized Medford OR is in a bad spot right now. Fires causing their area to be evacuated?
Jeez. I wish them well. They may have more to worry about than filling orders.

 

[Bronco4x4]

I did get an a E-mail stating they had to evacuate. I hope they are OK as well.

 

[House]

They reported that their building is safe and they are back to work.
Hopefully none of their employees lost their homes.

 

[Apogee]

I grew up in Ashland and still have family in the Ashland/Talent/Phoenix area, and it has been a devastating event for the whole region, but they're not the only ones...seems to be the status quo up and down the left coast right now. As for the Almeda fire, thankfully they appear to have stalled out at the southern edge of Medford, saving businesses like TBP from the same levels of destruction seen in Phoenix and Talent. Somehow my mom's house between Talent and Phoenix survived (minus a few trees) along with her neighbors, but everything around them burned. Thankfully she and her critters got out just in the nick of time and are okay, but not everyone has been so lucky.

It doesn't help that another fire on the NE side of Medford, South Obenchain Fire, is threatening a bunch of homes the other direction. It seems like every time we turn around for the past last week, there's a new fire somewhere. I'm up north in the Mid-Willamette Valley, and the Cascade foothills are on fire just about everywhere at this point as well...loving the cooler weather and can't wait for the rain to show up, but meanwhile the air quality sucks.

If you can donate anything to help fire victims that have lost everything, there are a lot of good organizations that need it, as a lot of people are sheltering at fairgrounds with their pets and whatever they could grab when they fled the fires.

Tobin

 

[kyle]

Was loaded for Sand Lake this weekend but it got closed as well due to fires. Pretty much a large section of Western Oregon is on fire. We have family evacuated in the Molalla and the Springfield area. Smoke is as thick as fog here.