Into the fire? Two Firefighters killed.

[RICHARD]

I am no where near the fires. I can smell the smoke and see it from my house-it's the people who live in the hills that are suffering.

I sat in the back yard an took this pics-the first 4 were taken within about 10 minutes.

A giant white cloud will appear from inside the smoke cloud, then collapse just as quickly. It's the water vapor from the fire, the particles from the smoke are too heavy to go any higher, so the water keeps going up then collapses in a matter of minutes.

The last pic is of the Erikson Sky Crane. This thing comes over the house on it's way to be gassed and have a pilot change- this chopper ROCKS IT TO THE FOUNDATION.