Posted on July 4 at 7:41 a.m.

As of 7am on the 4th the fire hasn't gone through the west camino cielo community. Our house situated on the north east edge of windermere looks fine on our webcam. Wind there is ~14mph out of the NW. Winds have been 100% steady out of the NW for the past few days, turning slightly more westwards on the 3rd. Winds the past night have been much stronger than on previous nights where they pretty much came to a rest. Not so the last night with a min ~10mph.
Ray, please keep up the excellent coverage. The twitter is an excellent idea! Maybe you want to also have a way for readers to send you info directly? Like photos and other observations?

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Posted on August 6 at 10:37 p.m.

Thanks again for a great account! You are correct: maps that show the place names you mention would be great! (It took me a long time to find a map that shows buckhorn road, for example.)

Can you comment on the overall impact of the fire on the wilderness? Fire is good, but is this too much? If we get some decent rains next spring (a big if), will this be a great area for wildflowers?

On Zaca Fire Heads into New Territory

Posted on August 5 at 9:33 a.m.

Thanks for the great coverage! This is the best information source on what's actually happening. InciWeb has up-todate statistics but very little description of what happened and what is planned and the maps are 12-24 hours old. The county web sites have announcements that they held a press conference, but do you think they'd post the contents of the web site? Yes, I can watch it on cable channel 20, but did someone consider that mountain residents are far outside the reach of cable TV?
Please keep up the good coverage!
- Thorsten - mountain resident

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