This is the Los Alamos Airport (taken this morning), being used as a staging ground for some of the 20 helicopters fighting the Las Conchas fire. Behind the runway, you can normally see the Jemez Mountains, but this is what the huge fire plume does at night and into the morning (like it did this morning): it lays low and starts travelling down the canyons. It was very smoky on the hill this morning.
This fire fighting is an impressive business. The helicopters make water and fire retardent drops, and sometimes do aerial back-burn ignitions. Amazing!
This is looking east from the main hill road alongside the airport, to where you can normally see the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Not today.
And this is looking west towards Pajarito Ski Hill.
Please continue to pray for the more than 2500 people fighting this aggressive fire over 130,000 acres. They continue back burns around Los Alamos, but the hot spots are south at Bear Peak and North in Santa Clara and the canyons on the northeast of the Valle Caldera.
And today the lab reopened, and businesses are up and running, and our community attempts to do business as usual with fire on three sides of us. By day we have the smoke-- either in town or as huge plumes rising from various places in the mountains. And at night, the red fire creeps from ridge to ridge above us. We appreciate your prayers, Gentle Readers!
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