[Marilyn]

I don't believe our home would be in danger from a brush fire. There is a brushy field across the street from our subdivision, but there are two streets between us and the field, no homes, but the fire would have to jump both streets. The golf course behind us is dry, but they do run the sprinklers some, so all we get is the smoke from fires in the area.

There are farmers and ranchers who do controlled burns every year, but we've been under a burn ban for months, and unless we get some rain, they won't be able to burn this year. They do it on a not so windy day, so the smoke goes pretty much straight up. With the winds we are having, if there is a brush fire, whoever is down wind is gonna get the smoke. The city was downwind from both the fires on Saturday, so we all got a good dose.

This is nothing like the fires in California. Since we are on relatively flat land, you don't get the same wind effects that they do in California to start the huge raging fires, thank goodness!!