Well, here's the daily fire update:

The macro-news:

- they've added a new alert zone (which 
means you're supposed to be ready to 
evacuate) a couple of km away. It 
doesn't really make sense because the 
people on the far side of it, who are 
closer to the fire, are not on alert. 
I don't really think much has changed 
since yesterday.

- locals are accusing the BC Wildfire 
Service of making the fire worse with 
a controlled ignition. The idea is 
that you burn the forest off before 
the fire can get to it. The Wildfire 
Service set their fire when the wind 
was blowing toward the two forest 
fires that were out of control, 
knowing that the wind was going to 
reverse on them. They thought that the 
fires would then turn back on the 
already burned areas. There's some 
debate over whether the plan worked. 
The two wildfires joined together and 
jumped the planned ignition zone. To 
be fair, it was windy as hell and to 
the south of us, a wildfire jumped 
Okanagan Lake, which is pretty crazy.

The micro-news:

- yesterday, I bought one of those 
allergen/HEPA furnace filters and 
attached it to a box fan to scrub the 
air in the house a bit. It's gone 
brown in 24 hours. Yikes.

- I'm jonesing for a typewriter. Go 
figure.

That's it. In M*A*S*H terminology, we 
haven't had to 'bug out' yet!