Thanks for the link, TB. It's so weird to look at those photos knowing the area like the back of my hand. In some of the photos you'll notice some ridges of white rock (hogbacks). Those are at the very north end of the Garden of the Gods, which was spared from the flames. Just north of those, you might see a large, sloping flat area - the Queens Canyon limestone quarry, which has been in the process of reclaimation for decades now. That was my orange alert line for my mom. When the fire topped that ridge is when I called her and told her to get out.

Mom said they had about half an inch of rain the other night, and the forcast calls for much lower temperatures and higher humidity and hopefully more rain this weekend.