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The fires are in Sonoma County...my house is in Marin, just south of it.
Hope this doesn't mean the fires are coming south. No smoke in the
sky...thinking they're just in a holding pattern for use later.

Took these with a little Nikon point 'n shoot

Oh, they look SO reassuring, but are they REALLY effective?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzjrZ-jcbY
http://www.azfamily.com/story/356152...ting-wildfires

Dated, but still relevant:
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Air tanker drops in wildfires are often just for show

A helicopter drops water on a ridge above Latigo Canyon in Malibu, where a
fast-moving brush fire threatened homes in November:
http://tinyurl.com/y7ukm4uu

Julie Cart and Bettina Boxall
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
July 29, 2008

Long before it reached the ground, the retardant had dissipated into a mist.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-w...l29-story.html


After I posted the pics the local news stated there was a hillside fire in my
home town...even though I didn't see any heavy smoke in the skies. Anyway, it
now makes sense.

A local news station reports that 99% of the fires in this area were started by
humans. The driving force with these fires are the 20 - 40 mph winds...mix that
with the usual careless indigent people living out in the open in tents etc, it
happens.




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