Officially safe

They have changed the evacuation orders for the Santa Rosa fires, and the Schulz Museum is no longer in the evacuated areas.

This fire season has come at a high cost – the death count stands as 40 and may well continue to rise, thousands of homes and businesses gone, and the fires continue (although the big ones are much more under control than they were.) This has been a tough year for disasters in the US. Stay safe, folks.

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