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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Bad News! It looks really serious.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>BillK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/01/fast-moving-fire-breaks-out-in-airway-heights-area/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/01/fast-moving-fire-breaks-out-in-airway-heights-area/</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This is the map of the fire:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=567 height=351 style='width:5.9062in;height:3.6562in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DD2392.02AB21B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The blue dot is where the house was. The entire neighborhood of several hundred homes near Rifle Club Road burned.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=567 height=397 style='width:5.9062in;height:4.1354in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01DD2392.02AB21B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All the way home to California, we were getting calls from friends and family, neighbors checking on each other.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We saved the family photo albums and some collectables. The rest of it is up in smoke. Everyone survived.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>