Ashes and Smoke
All images above courtesy of Captain Doug Miser, Ventura City Fire Department. Donna, Mary Osborne and a few friends were sitting at the bar of My Florist, an elegant little eatery in Ventura, which had a surf film playing on big LCD’s. Mary and I were discussing her boyfriend, Ventura Fire Captain Doug Miser, and how she had a bad feeling about him the prior day as he and others from our town had been initial respondents in the Jesusita Fire. Turns out that the crew had some tense moments in and around the time that we were both sort