Hot. Back from Sears. I had to get some new vacuum bags and then I watched the helicopters and bombers for a while as you can get a great view from up there. I feel as if I live in the landing path at LAX. But they are really hammering the fires today and this wind has really made problems. They had to evacuate some of the outer Western parts of Redding, but I think that is about under control now. Just a few houses burned. They are going to just let the part going North West burn as it is in inaccessible canyons and is headed toward Oregon. The wind is keeping the smoke up in the air, but even with the smoke cover the weather man said we had set heat records the past three days that have stood for over 100 years and the smoke kept the top temperatures down about 3 to 5 degrees. Many of the fire fighters are now starting to come down with exhaustion and heat and smoke inhalation. This heat, plus the hot wind is just making it really bad.
Ron