AETNA SPRINGS, California - People in the Pickett Fire region of Napa County got phone alerts for potential flash flooding on Monday.

Concerns with fresh burn scars

What we know:

Flash flooding is a major concern, especially when there is a fresh and large wildfire burn scar.

Those who've gone through so many fires in the last decade are not fatalists, but practical and always on alert.

In the daylight, wet from Monday's rain, the Pickett Fire burn scar is a vivid contrast of burned dry yellow-orange leaves, charcoal black tree trunks and ground. Some of the surrounding vineyards were singed or burned as well.

Already, burrowing critters are moving back in and we saw deer in the area.

Phone alerts

Locals got a phone surprise as the storm approached. "It was a National Weather Ale

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