my heart also aches for the animals. In the fires, and also in general climate change related disasters too @Former-Member , @Fizz , @YouAreNotAlone , @frog , @BPDSurvivor 

as to know something is coming even a couple of days before , feeling the air pressure in the sky and then the birds disappear ( do not know where they go ) but you don't hear them again until the disaster is over 

it is soo wonderful how the community pulls together in a disaaster , and afterwards , we could not go out the back door or the front door due to the fallen trees leading against the doors