Fire Update: Thur evening

Are you guys tired of fires? I'm tired of fires and am ready for life to return to a normal routine. This is easy for me to say since I still have my house, unlike many others. Adam went back to class tonight, I'm at home blogging when I should be working, so there are signs of normal life beginning to surface again.

The update from here is much the same. Containment still at 30%, approx. 26,000 acres burned, and fire still posing danger but continuing to move Eastward away from us. Here's a new map - I put a couple of familiar landmarks on there for reference. The yellow is recently burned and the red is currently burning (click the image for larger view). Also keep in mind this is only "our" portion of "our" fire. There's a whole other map for Trabuco Canyon area, etc.


The ash and smoke seem to have been at their worst this morning. I wish I had taken a photo of our cars when I walked out to leave for work today - yuck. But there seems to be some improvement in all of that this evening, thankfully. It's a little tough to see but here's a view of the ash on our doorstep just now:


I'm hoping that the fire news is on it's way out of our life - I'm looking forward to blogs about things other than fires again soon!