What ever the national news feeds say it's quite traumatic, but they always tend to sensationalize. Record breaking winds blowing embers up to a mile, power outages, evacuations, and close to both San Francisco and L.A. Anything close to first hand accounts or other news? There are fingers pointing at global warming.
We really had just one big fire here, which is less than usual due to some drought relief. They had a new policy to let the big fire burn through beetle kill pine, which we have a lot of. Then the wind came up. It was in a relatively low population area, but I have country friends who were evacuated. I don't think I caused much damage other than leaving the burn scars which will be there for years, and maybe some runoff issues some time in the spring.