Jun 27 2008
Fires still raging
It has been almost a week, and the situation out / up here has gotten slowly, and progressively worse. Most of the fire seems to be focused on the west side of town now, and the smoke has cleared out of the valley for the most part, giving us a view of what is going on up in the higher elevations.
That is pretty much what we have been seeing. It’s pretty scary how close a few are getting to town, but in general Redding is not nearly densely forested as the surrounding mountains. So nothing to worry about, yet.
Some good news is that the majority of fires on the east side have been contained or extinguished altogether.
More thunderstorms are in the forcast for the weekend. Great.
Looks like a smoke tornado!