Mom and Dad found out officially today that their house survived the fire. Authorities finally released maps showing the damaged lots in each neighbourhood (in brown). I marked my parents' place in red on the map of their neighbourhood:
The fire was moving from the bottom left to the top right, and you can see that nearly the entire row behind their place got wiped out. They have empty lots on both sides of their house, which we thought might be a liability (dry grass and trees)...but there seems to be no real pattern or logic to the destruction. As sad as it is that people lost their homes, it's amazing that so many homes were saved -- you can see how densely populated this area is. The Crawford Estates subdivision further east on the slope took the other major damage.
This thermal map shows how the fire progressed over the last few days. Terrifying progress on Thursday and Friday. None of the ex-Rosenort people in the neighbourhood (Jim and Elmer Eidse, my folks, Norm Thiessen) lost their homes, which is just amazing.
