Big Fire

This fire just started this morning and is over 3,000 acres already! Neighborhoods around us are being evacuated due to smoke, but so far we are smoke-free. If the wind died down I'm sure we'd get a lot of smoke, but that's really what needs to happen to slow down the fire. Anyway, here are some pictures taken from our back yard...

 

These flames were in the tree tops and were actually extinguished pretty quickly by helicopter or plane. 

 

A silhouette of a helicopter in the orange smoke- at about 5:00pm.

 

7:30pm- you can see it's come down a ways in the last couple of hours. 

  

8:00- now we can see the flames

 

And about 8:30 (taken with a telephoto lens- it's not that close, nevertheless I think we'll pack a bag in case the smoke gets bad in the middle of the night...)