13 October 04
Smoky Days
There’s a fire burning in the backcountry on the west side of Yolo County and the east side of Napa County. It’s been going for three days, and has burned almost 38,000 acres, largely in chaparral. There’s been very little damage to structures, and only one injury so far, and fires are an ordinary part of our landscape. The smoke drifts down here from time to time—yesterday someone new to California asked me what it was—and the haze to the west is tinged mauve.
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