Speaking of fire trucks, on the drive home today, I passed several convoys of fire trucks going home from the SoCal fires. I saw engines from as far away as Truckee and Reno, and the Bay Area was well represented with trucks from San Francisco, Alameda County, Union City, Mountainview, and Richmond among others. On the side of two of the trucks were memorials scrawled for Stephen Rucker, 10-29-03, who died fighting the San Diego fire. Brave men. I wanted to applaud them.