[Ron61]

Fred,

The smoke is still pretty bad but they have managed to get as few of the planes into the air today. Even if they could put all of the fires out tomorrow we would have smoke and that awful smell for a week or so unless some unexpected strong winds came along and blew it out of the valley. All 4th of July fireworks have been cancelled here. And mandatory water rationing is just about ready to begin. It would be nice if we could get some of those flood waters they have back in the flooded areas to help fill our lakes and rivers. I am just hoping they can stop the fires from getting to the West bank of Shasta Lake North of the dam.

Ron