T-Al,

Thanks so much for your "Fire Victims" letter. I'm so sorry you lost the house in Oakland. I can only imagine the stress, seeing as how we didn't even evacuate and I couldn't sleep for almost three days. I appreciate your thoughtfulness in composing the letter in the first place, and again in sending it on to me.

Fortunately it looks like a near miss for us with this batch of fires, but odds are we'll be facing something like this again at some point and I'll keep your letter just in case.

Hope summer up there in the north is good, and that you don't need the fire crews we've got sequestered down here!

Urchina