Julian is still standing at the moment. They've been defending it all night. I watched on TV this morning as a CDF helicopter dropped water on a house. After the copter left, fire broke through the roof outside the area that got wet. The fire quickly stretched from the front to the back of the house, following a path about eight feet wide. The copter returned a couple of minutes later and made another drop. The water fell straight down the fire line and extinguished it.
My skies are clear for the first time since Saturday, photos below:
Air quality yesterday in Escondido: 738 micrograms per square meter. By comparison, that figure was 90 late Sunday.
