Hope all works out for your friends.
Our mountain wildfire just passed the one month mark, 119,000 acres burned. We are far enough away that all got was some bad smoke odor for a few days, and virtually every night we can see the huge amount of orange glow. But we have friends and co-workers who live close to the base of the mountain range and have been on prepare to evacuate status for weeks. Gotta be crazy on your nerves.