A little local color
The largest wildfire in California is about 12 miles west of where we are camped. There are 1,900 people working to contain the "Indians Fire" which has burned 33,000 acres and is less than 1/3rd contained, and the smoke plume is enormous. Today the wind took it over King City. The effect is that everything is yellow to orange, and there were no shadows at mid-day. Last night a fire started about a quarter of a mile from our camp and burned along a front I estimate to be 100 yards long. The fire was slightly upwind of us, burning in the brush along the Salinas River. After I got the kids ready to evacuate local fire crews arrived and quickly put it out -- nothing like having unlimited water when putting out a brush fire.
Here's the fire from our rooftop as of Tuesday:
Comments
se on the sit. report (http://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf) they now have >2,200 people on the fire, and have it 46 percent contained. Looks like they're making good progress. With 14 helicopters on it, you should be getting quite an air show! Hope you keep safe.
Posted by: Adam | June 17, 2008 03:53 PM
Same here! Looks like a doozy of a fire from here. Stay safe!
Posted by: Steve Plonk | June 17, 2008 09:50 PM