It has vared from smelly and dusty when the wind is in the wrong direction, to blue-skies clear and light breezes in the right direction.

The heavy pall of smoke you see from the satellite image are to the north of us.

Military aircraft should be starting drops of H20 and retardant this morning, to reinforce efforts of local forces that were deployed until dark last night.

The evacuations are being very well managed and so far spirits are high.

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