Ha! Azizi, I've used metric so much of my life that I find miles hard to visualize now and have to convert them to km., although I'm still comfortable with feet and inches.

But yes, that's about the right size. Our local media is doing a poor job because most of it is owned by national corporations, who have slowly stripped local affiliates of personnel and reduced local news programming and reporting. It's frustrating not getting good information on an event in one's own backyard.

In miles, this fire is about twelve miles from my home. I can see and smell the smoke, although there's no worry of it coming this way. Winds are very strong still. I have friends in the area who are very likely perfectly safe, but I have no way of finding out without needlessly clogging emergency phone lines. My husband is on the road, on his way home from NB, and I can only hope he hears which routes (all main ones) are closed so he can plan a workaround route.