There was a community information meeting last night on the fire. There were a couple of new fires started in other parts of the state, so they shifted the initial attack crews and put on a Type 2 team. There are lots of resources devoted to the fire. The Incident Command Post is at the ski area at the bottom of the hill. Last night engines were patrolling the roads and one was parked in my neighbors driveway prepared, just in case.
Here's a map of the fire perimeter, as of last night. The white hatched lines are dozer lines, the black line is where they have hand crews staged. The red lines are areas where the fire is still not contained. Our house is on the north side of Monte Verde Road - one of the line that is closest to the fire. With an up-hill slope of black spruce in between. The location of the fire start is marked with an X and a circle on the map. We are lucky that the winds were blowing from the south when the fire started!
The fire is very well staffed. This helicopter is picking up supply loads to drop for the smoke jumpers.
Check out this time-lapse photography of the fire: click here
Back on the home front... the ironwork art for our loft railing arrived today!! I'm very happy with it :-).
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