Arizona Dreamin’

By laurie54

The Wildfire Keeps Growing

This is a replacement blip.  Sorry to those who had previously commented. There are better angles with which to see this fire; however these are from my backyard.

The fire has rapidly spread.  You should be able to see from the photo the smoke continuing to rise from the mountains on both the right and left.  The red stuff which looks like lava is actually the fire retardant dropped from air tankers (it really is that color).  The sky is filled with plumes of smoke and is flowing northward as far as my eyes can see. 
I put an additional view as an extra.  In it, you can see how extremely windy it is, just in the valley.  It is worse in the higher elevations.  Humidity is hovering between 5%-10%.

The following is a news update from my post this morning.

Firefighters from 7 10 different agencies [as well as the Sheriff's Dept and US Border Patrol], continue to fight the Sawmill Fire in Green Valley. The call came in on Saturday just before noon. Officials say it began as a small brush fire -- but quickly grew to a much larger wildfire due to wind and dry conditions. By Monday morning afternoon at 4 pm, the fire had burned more than 4,500 7,000 acres and was 7 percent contained.

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