Harris Flareup Update...

If you look carefully at the base of the northern end of this flareup (to the left side of where the smoke is emerging), you can see that the flareup is greatly reduced in intensity in that area. I think it would be reasonable to attribute that to the firefighter's actions (including, possibly, air resources), as that's an area that I know is full of fuel, and I can't imagine why it would go out by itself.

Compared with a few days ago, when there were dozens and dozens of hotspots and flareups throughout the county, there should be lots of both ground and air resources to throw at this. Hopefully that's exactly what's happening…

The bottom photo shows the view to the north from Lyons Peak, with that horrible pall of smoke. A couple of hours ago, we thought the danger was over and we were going home. Now we're back to wondering whether we're going to have a home…