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Though the fires continue to burn, our area is still well away from any activity. I’m surprised that it’s not smokier (though it’s still obvious that the air quality isn’t that great; check out this link for current and predicted air quality. The closest station to us is Kearney Mesa. The Escondido station is very close to the fires.

Here’s a map of the fires as of 6:00 am Wednesday morning. As you can see, winds have shifted and moved the active fronts of some of the fires.

We know lots of people who’ve been evacuated. Two of them had houses either within or very close to a burn zone. Thankfully, the fires seem to have spared them (though some of their neighbors weren’t so lucky).

As of 1 PM, the air in our corner of Serra Mesa is still OK, though I’m starting to see little bits of ash floating around (which means there’s probably lots of tiny particles floating around that I can’t see).  Our area seems to be one of the least affected by the smoke, based on pollution report data. The easiest way to find our neighborhood on a map is to find the spot where Highway 163 and Interstate 805 cross each other diagonally; our neighborhood is directly south of that crossing. (All of the steets are named after birds).