Usually the fire season around here would be pretty much over my now, but there's been so little monsoon rain this summer that everything's bone dry. The current big fire near here is burning into the Pecos Wilderness to the east of Tesuque - not immediately threatening any structures, though the tiny village of Rio en Medio may be in the way; but of course potentially damaging to wildlife and habitats; to watersheds when ash washes down (if there ever is any precipitation); to powerlines. It's currently in very rugged terrain - and I was just reading about the difficulties of firefighting in a time of Covid, when you have to keep social distance from anyone not in your battalion. Down here, the air quality just causes us to cough (and therefore to take our temperature multiple times a day, anxiously).
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