It started "getting brighter" about 4.
;>)
Is there time to add an orange sky to the book?
"My" fire still hasn't grown, and is now 25% contained. The August Fire, the one they say is making most of our smoke, is now 2nd biggest in Calif. history. It's sort of confusing, but they might combine a few fires, in which case it's already the biggest.
Garberville is about 60 miles to the north.
UPDATE 2:20 p.m. — Judging by satellite data, it appears that the Doe, Hopkins, and Elkhorn fires have burned into each other. However, they all retain their separate names at this point and are now being managed as two separate complexes, the Rock Complex, which includes the Hopkins and Elkhorn fires, and the August Complex, which includes the Doe fire.
According to the federal government’s incident website, the August Complex is currently at 372,012 acres, the Elkhorn fire is at 69,735, and the Hopkins fire is at 69,735 acres. Together, that is 491,466 acres, more acres than were burned in the 2018 Mendocino Complex, which currently ranks as California’s largest recorded wildfire. However, we won’t know the exact scope of things — exactly how many acres have burned and where — until the smoke clears.
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