Butrfly's Wonderings

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...


Woke up coughing early this morning. There must of been a change in wind direction during the night. We've got grass and wild fires all around us on both sides of and in the Valley. The air is starting to get rather smokey and I'm already experiencing a little breathing problems so I've closed up all the windows, put towels under doors, have turned on my air purifiers and located my inhaler.

If the air quality (and my breathing) gets worse, I'll need to find somewhere else to stay until the fires are out.

Wildfires burn across Northern California

Eight horses were killed and more than a half dozen homes burned Friday as gusty winds fanned several wildfires across Northern California.

In Vacaville, 32 miles southwest of Sacramento, a 30-acre grassfire destroyed a farmhouse and several barns, killing eight horses. And a fire in nearby Davis jumped a highway, burned two homes and injured three people.

A wildfire in Calaveras County near Burson quickly spread to 1,500 acres in just a few hours, destroying four houses, numerous other buildings and forcing evacuations, said Kristine Ferreira of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Another blaze, near Anderson Springs in Sonoma County, burned through 75 acres before the wind gusts died down and fire fighters were able to start bringing it under control.