From Napa's Wine Country, Alison Crowe, who grew up in Carpinteria and is now a winemaker for Plata, Garnet, and Picket Fence, wrote about how to prep for fire and evacuation on her blog, Girl and the Grape.
My parents were just up here in Napa helping me prepare to evacuate during the October Wine Country Wildfires, and now they are facing the Thomas Fire at home. My heart goes out to all my friends and family in the area. There’s not much I can do from hundreds of miles away, but I can at least compile a list of lessons and “to do’s” I learned during October's wildfires.
If you have to evacuate soon, like in the next few hours: