Odd for a newbie Community member to be starting this thread and it is because of a specific, but can be used for all future disasters.

Given what reports we are getting here in Japan, it seems those wildfires in the LA County area could affect a member here, so simply asking if anyone you know lives in that area has been accounted for in some manner? But we'd have to heed privacy issues, so I suppose being careful on that is of note. Still, a whole bunch of folks seem to have been tossed out of their homes. Over 100,000?