Fire Update

Horseshoe 2 Fire
Acres: 100,000 (5th largest wildfire in Arizona’s history)
Containment: 75%
Notes: Winds will remain a big challenge today, with gusts out of the southwest around 45 mph. This will push smoke into far eastern Cochise County and western New Mexico. Heading into the weekend, winds will ease up, but a new challenge could hinder firefighters: dry thunderstorms. While isolated in variety Sunday, these are anticipated to pop up near the New Mexico border and produce little rainfall.

A bit of information I got off of the internet.

A view of the fire on the Chiricahua mountains from our front lane.

We got a call from a person that lives up near the fire, and she just wanted to know that if they had to evacuate, if there would be enough room here for there 1 dog and 6 cats. We assured her that there was and she felt much better after that. :) I can hardly imagine living that close to the fire!! Must be awful! 

We are all praying for rain, cause they say it will be the only way to stop it.

A clip of the fire.

Smoke...

There is a fire in the White Mountains over a 150 miles away, burning 233,000 acres so far. There is also a fire on the Chiricahua mountains east of us which has burn't off over a 100,000 acres so far. We can see the Chiricahua mountains from here and the smoke looks like volcanoes billowing up into the sky. The wind that we have been having has been doing havoc! The sad part about it is that it is burning our ponderosa pine forests that were always fun to camp in in the summer time.

Between the both of them we have been getting a lot of smoke. Yesterday the smoke was so strong that it would burn your lungs to go outside. 

The fire is moving a lot of people from there homes and has burnt quite a few of the summer cabins and lodges.

The sun was having a hard time shining through.

Today is not quite so windy and the smoke has lifted. :) So we are happy for that.