There is a fire 3 miles from my house right now. At one time it was proablly 1.5miles, close to where it started. It was raining ash at work as I pulled into the yard. Should be contained shortly. Right now its burning large ceder trees and they are going to let it burn through the ceders in the river bed until the fire gets to smaller brush. This way they can control it better, right now its way too hot in those ceders. Also, I have never seen so many crop dusters flying around at one time! Looks like WWI with a bunch of bi-planes flying around. My guess is that they are filling up with water to help dampen the vegitation near the fire line. As soon as it burns through those trees and hits grass land and the fire line, it should be easy to contain. All this has sure filled up the valley with smoke.