Yesterday, the North Hill Fire, though not contained, laid down
for most of the day on the flanks visible from my house. The sky did not fill with columns of smoke as
in days previous.
Throughout the day, heavy slurry tankers lumbered back and forth
overtop my house. I watched them loop though
the smoldering mountains, dropping retardant along the most threatening flanks
of the fire.
As of last evening, the fire had claimed some 4,200 acres. All told, 400 homes have been evacuated over
a wide area endangered by the wildfire. Thankfully,
no homes have been lost to flames to date.
Posted are a couple photographs of last night’s sunset, featuring
the lake and the sky posing as they should on a mid-summer night.
—Mitchell Hegman
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