Whenever I see firetrucks go by I feel deep emotions.

[Warpy]

3. Out here, they draw heavily from people on the reservations

who spend the warm months eating smoke to make enough money to eke out the government allotments during the winter. I know quite a few who do that every single year.

Fire is necessary out west, it's how forests renew themselves. The problems are that decades of fire suppression have left the forests choked with fuel and that people have built their homes deep in the forest.

My heart goes out to the families of the firefighters and to people who have lost their cabins outside Yarnell.

NM got a respite from the extreme heat today. Maybe that will spill over and into the fire area, allowing them to get it contained tomorrow.