Torahs packed and synagogues on high alert as fires bear down in North Bay

When the evacuation orders came Tuesday night, Guerneville resident Sonia Tubridy and her daughter packed the car and left, joining a caravan of vehicles fleeing the North Bay area and the fires that threatened to engulf them.

Tubridy, cultural director of the Russian River Jewish Community, was among the thousands of people ordered to evacuate from fires burning 46,000 acres across a vast area covering five counties and stretching from Vacaville north to Lake Berryessa and out to the Sonoma County coast. Dubbed the “LNU Lightning Complex” by Cal Fire, the danger zone has required mandatory evacuations in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties and continues to expand. By Thursday it was burning over 105,000 acres.

Source: Torahs packed and synagogues on high alert as fires bear down in North Bay - The Jewish News of Northern California