It Ain't Over 'til It's Over...

July 18, 2008 7:30 am

The sun shines brightly, not much smoke in the air this morning, a few firefighting vehicles roll up the road and folks have headed off to their jobs, so life seems a lot better now.

But it ain't over yet!! As of this morning, we're at 65% containment (the fire, that is.. most Jamesburgers have are no longer contained).

So, here's your morning cuppa'Jo with Jim Kasson's MODIS map and some comments from Jim...

It was cool and cold here last night, and that seems to have slowed things down.

• Lots of activity within the new fire lines that were built to contain the “slopover” fire, especially at the southern end. MODIS puts some of the dots outside the lines, but I’m figuring that those are placement errors, just like yesterday.
  
• Either there is more backburning near the Div GG and Div LL firelines, or the fire is getting ready to challenge those lines.
  
• There’s a new outbreak of the easternmost fire well to the south of where it has been, near the Girl Scout Camp. It is well away from the firelines, and not too far from the burned-out remains of the Indians Fire.
• The Divide Camp/Pine Valley fire keeps going.

Martha and I, too, must head off to our regular work in town, so I'll be posted some information a bit later than through the morning, as I usually do.

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Extraordinary Pictures from Susan Bradley

Susan Bradley has provided us with some incredible, in-your-face piccies of the "Big Burn" taken from her front porch (and YOU were worried about the fire???).

Here are a few... check out the crew, mid-right in the picture, witnessing the retardant drop... "dammit, Buck, where'd ya put those wieners?" *rustles through a backpack*: