By: Dr. Steve Gibson Last January, my wife and I lived through a terrifying event. In the early hours of the morning of January 7th, we were awakened to a phone alert to evacuate our home immediately. We evacuated in the dark. Opening the door in the dark we were surrounded by smoke and flying embers. We checked with our neighbors, grabbed our insurance papers and our little dog, Continflaas, and drove out through the dark smoke for the last time from our home of 24 years.