Reply #93: Sounds like you came through several hours after I did

[Fleshdancer]

I sat in my car and watched a fire fighter try to keep one of the "smaller" fires from reaching the highway. It's weird watching something like that less than 40 yards away...the man looked pissed and frustrated for good reason. My guess is that the fires started not too long before we arrived because the local fire trucks and police cars were still arriving. I turned on the AM radio to see if there was any local news and a woman who was driving northbound described watching the flames jump over the median into the highway.

I'm impressed that you were able to stay on the highway. Since I got re-routed, I didn't see the burning guard rails...creepy. The first responders were working their butts off and the majority of them (that I saw) were still in their street clothes.