My pager went off last night at 3am, and I just got back from ~12 hours of fighting a several acre wildfire here in the forest, which we contained before it decided to wipe out a good chunk of the island. Going to sleep now. But before I do:

One nice little cabin and its outbuildings were destroyed in this fire. The resultant cabin fire threw off embers that caught other nearby areas on fire and made the situation much worse. From the scene, it looked as if the cabin could have had a better job done making the grounds around it less subject to fire, and more defensible. It's a darn shame, a few hours of work before there was a fire well could have allowed this place to survive.

Please, please, please - if you live in an area where wildfire is a risk, investigate the practices recommended by the Firewise program!

http://www.firewise.org/

My evening: