Seems they find this fire what they call suspect whatever that means. It was very interesting to go up and watch the helicopters dropping water. It seems like they are dropping a thimble full of water and it would never amount to anything. Then there were larger planes that would fly overhead and drop orange fire retardant. They would use this to try to build up a line the fire would not cross. They had it out in about 2 days. There was quite a bit of forest that burned out. While it was only a few miles from the house it couldn't move down though the all the housing and concrete and we were never in any danger.

Of course this is a shot of Karen looking at the smoke.. It was actually kind of pretty to look as the sun set. Hmm anybody got any weenies to roast.. (little Joey you out there) how bout smores...

If you look close you can actually see flames in there. Don't get to close though you might get burned... The flames would flare up every so often as a new bunch of trees caught fire.

Here is a chopper flying up with a bucket of water. The bucket looks like a thimble. Kinda makes you wonder if the pilot doing this because it does some good or because he enjoys flying.. hmmmm

And finally a shot of the damage. I don't have a shot up the canyon but this goes up quite a ways. All the gray areas had trees before the fires.