When I grew up in So Cal, we had fires regularly. My mom had it down to a science. When the fires got close, she'd spend all day packing the back of the station wagon. Pictures, important papers, clothes, whatever. When hurricanes come thru here I pack a hurricane box of things I want to save. However, mine is more my laptop and back up (all my pictures are there), papers, some artwork. My machines are put in large plastic bags along with some of my wearable art stuff I've made and some fabrics. We aren't that close to the coast so I rarely have to do that, thank God.