I grew up in a city with a river running through it, which is prone to flooding. When you visit this city, you will notice that a comparatively small river is running through wide, wide areas of meadows. I have often heard visitors say “Why is nobody living there? It is so beautiful. What a waste of space. Houses would bring high prices.”

These beautiful meadows, these wasted spaces are flood meadows! No building permits are handed out for this very reason; and nobody living in the region would even contemplate such a silly thought.

They are bringing in some planes from Canada now, so-called Super Scooper water-dropping tankers; those should arrive here on Tuesday.

It is not looking good right now, the fire is spreading steadily in all directions. One problem is Mt. Wilson – the fire has approached to about 2 miles from there; if it should get to the top, then quite a number of important communications towers are in danger.

Right now firefighters are trying to protect the communities in the Foothills plus Mt. Wilson and to keep the fire within the boundaries of highway 14 and Interstate 5.