My heart goes out to all caught up in this awful tragedy. I lived and worked in Westwood for 4 years at the end of the 90s and remember seeing the skyline glowing and smelling the smoke and it was scary being there even then and being nowhere near the fires really at all. Losing homes on this scale and, of course, lives too is the ultimate tragedy, both for families and communities. I just hope people and especially those brave, battling firefighters can stay out of the fires' clutches, presumably now until they burn themselves out.