Good Morning
Well it is summer, and California is on fire. We usually get “fire season” in the late summer and fall, right before the rains come. This year, ug. This is way too early and way to close.
There are 8,000 plus acres of wilderness burning in western Colusa County, California. It started at the Double Eagle ranch which is in Eastern Lake County, about 10 miles east of the town of Clearlake Oaks, CA and about 3 miles from my neighborhood.
It was touch and go Sunday afternoon. If the wind had shifted even a little we would have been looking at mandatory evacuation our skies were so hazy with all the other fires burning, we did not know that we were in danger.
We heard a helicopter over head, and we thought it was just a spotter, or flight for life- there are sometimes really bad accidents on Hwy 20. The next thing we realized is that the helicopter landed two houses down from us in an open field to refuel He told us about our local fire.
As of the last news broadcast, it was still growing acres and growing because no one has come to tend it yet.
The firefighters are stretched so thin. It is had to imagine that 842 fires erupted at once. Our Lake county Calfire units are helping put out the “Wild Fire” outside Fairfield, CA. when that is contained they will shift there focus up here.
I would like to take just a moment to salute the men and women who are fighting these fires. It takes a certain caliber of person to do these jobs that are required of them. Good job and good luck.
So, The Bishop’s Candle is alive and well. The air around me is smoky and hazy; the sunrise this morning was salmon colored, because of the smoke in the air.
If you have to live in one of these smoky areas, take care of yourself, stay indoors, and turn on the air conditioner. If you have to go out wear a mask. It is always in these nasty conditions that more incidents of asthma and allergies are reported.
Unfortunately, some people really get triggered and the asthma can stay with them the rest of there lives.
Peace.
Kimberly
