Glad you and yours were safe and you got to have a nice vacation, albeit truncated!

I once was on an Amtrak train -- the Empire Builder -- as we passed very very close to a fire, I think in Eastern Washington. Like, there was a yard just outside a warehouse or something, and there were pallets and stuff like that on fire. I seem to recall being able to feel the heat through the window. It was at night so the flames were very visible and we saw the rest of the scene really by the light of the flames. I think that is the closest I have ever personally gotten to a fire.