and as I wrote that title, a helicopter flew so close to our house I thought it was landing in our backyard. I followed it out front and apparently there’s a flare up south of us. But again, its downwind from us (thankfully)

But there’s nothing else to report on the fires around here. The fires west of us (Lowry) were the biggest fires burning at 11am so they were getting tons of attention. That seems to have worked. I dont see any ‘plumes’ just that the sky west of us looks gray. So no pictures .. there’s really nothing to see.

I did finally call the fire information line, out of curiosity. I expected it to have directions on how to report a fire, however, it was a recording reporting what fires they were currently battling. As of 1:45 the last update was at 11am (and it wasn’t much different from the 9am update). That number is 321-637-5550.