"Fire" Island

Try to explain this one...

Last night I dreamt about "Fire Island." This is not New York's fabulous Fire Island, a favorite summertime vacation destination, but rather an island formerly called Angel Island, which suffered an earthquake and fires that burnt the four mile by four mile plot of land home to 4,000 people. Hence, the name was changed to "Fire Island."

I do not recall where the island was located, but it is not San Francisco, where there is an Angel Island. Are you confused yet?

What was bizarre about this dream is Fi (old work buddy from the 650 Edel-clan), Charlie's Angel (work buddy in New York), a few others and I toured the burnt island to survey the damage for clean-up work. From initial TV news reports from a helicopter, no one survived. We didn't expect to see anyone...

We rode a boat to the "Fire Island" marina. From the marina, we rode on the back of a large pickup truck -- through ash and debris -- passing what once was a Target store and a strip mall... But stopped when we found survivors.

We found them on a ferris wheel, and they looked pretty beat. When we offered them food, and help to leave the island, they looked at us strangely and approached us as if they would not allow us to depart the island.

I remember our team ran back to the truck, and tried to escape, but the debris and hot ash punctured and melted the tires. We had no choice but to run back to the boat.

I do not recall anything about the dream after that. Bizarre.