Just mentioning “fire” and ”nude” in the same breath is painful.

But the folks at Lupin Lodge Resort, a clothing-optional retreat outside Los Gatos, are making a generous offer to residents who had to flee their homes during this week’s Loma Fire on the Loma Prieta ridge 10 miles to the south:

Come stay with us for free, naked or not.

“We stand ready to help people evacuated and/or the fire crews fighting the fire,” said Lori Stout, CEO of the retreat that was founded in 1935 and has been in the her family since 1977. “We have offered lodging and restaurant / food preparation facilities. We also want to welcome our neighbors and their animals as some shelters do not have facilities.”

Stout said early Friday that they had not yet been contacted by any evacuees, but she said she was putting out the word on social media and had been in touch with the battalion chief at Alma Station of the California Department of Forestry as well as the Silicon Valley office of the Red Cross.

“We heard about some of the people who had to leave their homes but had no place that would take them and their animals,” she said. “We have 112 acres, so I thought ‘why not?’

“We just want to open our doors to the community like we’ve done in the past with the 1985 Lexington Fire and the 1989 earthquake,” said Stout.

She said the retreat has plenty of room for those in need, including a dormitory, cabins, yurts and 100 campsites, along with a kitchen and full-service restaurant. “We can handle a lot of people here,” she said. “In the ’85 fire we had 1,000 firefighters staying with us and even had a whole chow line set up.”

At the height of the drought last summer, Stout got into hot water for piping cold water from Hendry’s Creek despite numerous warnings to stop. She pleaded no contest to charges of trespassing on open space land to divert water to her drought-stricken resort, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Stout was sentenced to probation and 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and full restitution of $9,800 to the Midpenninsula Regional Open Space District which manages the property where the creek is located.

With her benevolent response to the tragedy to the south, where the Loma Fire had burned 4,313 acres and was 34 percent contained as of Friday morning, Stout hopes to provide welcome refuge to both two- and four-footed evacuees.

“We’ll talk to folks on an individual basis,” she said of her offer for free lodging. “As far as their animals are concerned, we’ll have to make arrangements with the owners one by one: is it a bird they have? Is it a chicken? Is it a cat?

“We have some open land and if people had a way to contain their horse here, we’d take horses, too.”

Stout said evacuees looking for help should call the retreat at 408-353 9200.

“We’re a clothing-optional retreat,” said Stout. “So the nude people you’d see are the ones in the hot tub or skinny-dipping in the pool or hiking the trails.

“But if it’s cold,” Stout added, “everyone will be wearing their clothes.”