[KirklandJunction]

More bad news:

1. Due to the last four/five years of below average rain, the average humidity of living Ponderosal Pine in n.e. Arizona is below ten percent. Consumer lumber in retail stores is around nineteen percent.

2. More wind today.

[glory]

You are right, it is terribly dry and rain has been sparse at best(except for 98 which seemed much more rainy to me than usual). I hate to say, but this fire will be even harder to contain than the Colorado fire because the conditions are so ripe for it.