Apparently, quite a bit of Northern California is on fire at present. I hope it dies down soon and everyone stays safe. I don't understand why there are so many up North near the Oregon border. To my understanding, that is an area with lots of precipitation and water. Generally, when California bursts into flames, it's in Southern California. So much that once on a drive to Los Angeles, I phoned a friend in panic as I drove by her exit in Castaic and saw her whole neighborhood apparently ablaze. She informed me that such things happen every year in her area, not to worry. I'm not sure I could watch a fire raging from my backyard and not worry!
We occasionally get wildfires here, too, but since Summers tend to get lots of rain, there are not as many. The scary fire-related thing here is that some rural areas have no fire service whatsoever. Yes, that's right. If their house catches fire, they are just SOL. You can see a list of the fire departments that service the North Star Borough here. And of course the city of Fairbanks proper has its own fire department, as does the University campus.
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Actually, thanks to our friend global warming, there has been less rain than usual. Everything is VERY dry. Add to that some freak lightning storms (sans rain) with plenty of ground strikes and viola! Fires burning out of control you have!
It sucks. The air quality in the Bay Area has been terrible the last week or so. So bad, in fact, that they're advising the people stay inside (note: this applies to everyone, not just those that suffer from asthma or kids and the elderly). But its getting better. At least I can see the sun today...and its not red!
One of the mercies of the Bay Area is the wind from the ocean. It clears out pollution quickly. The Sili Valley gets a bit of pollution trapped, but it's still nothing like other cities can be (a-hem, LA, cough-cough).
There is no wind in Fairbanks at all, but we have pretty much no pollution at all, except in Winter, when on very cold days all of the woodsmoke gets trapped in the valley.
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