DIXON, CA (MPG) - Large RVs and cars full of families rolled into Dixon beginning Wednesday afternoon as evacuations were ordered for several areas surrounding Vacaville including within the city limits and Lake Berryessa. Within minutes, Dixon's relief efforts and community kindness sprung into action.

Many Dixonites reportedly opened their homes or businesses for displaced friends and family.

Angela Meisenheimer, a Realtor whose office is at 350 West A Street, was busy transforming a couch into a bed and setting up airbeds for a couple families that included a grandparent and youths. I had friends call and ask if they could stay as they were being evacuated from the Vacaville area so I was busy getting our spare bedroom freshened up. When I went to grab some extra groceries, I saw my friend Julie Burley doing the same for their evacuees.

Lots of RV's started showing up in front of people's houses and businesses and one would know that the heart of Dixon was in full swing. Several Dixon restaurants reported they were extra busy. The various homes had plenty of good citizens wanting to help. Some brought bags of food to the Mayfair grounds for the animals, one family brought several boxes of pizza for fire victims and another dropped off numerous gift cards.

Stories of numerous local families filled social media including homes somehow miraculously spared and others swallowed into ashes. Just when the nearby fires had finished their ugly reign, we tuned into the news to learn there are 560 fires still ravaging our state.

In the LNU (Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit) Lightning Complex Fire here, there were 220,000 acres burned as of Friday at noon which included 480 structures destroyed and at least 125 damaged.