Blue Skies Return to Reno

Incredibly hard working firefighters and more cooperative weather have teamed up to finally get a handle on what's being called the worse series of wildfires in California history. Even if you didn't follow the story here in Reno, today you would be seeing the clearest day we've had since the lightning caused conflagration started almost a month ago. The sky is blue and colors are vivid again, not filtered through a brown haze. It's like coming into the light from some sort of murky twilight zone.

Many of us in Reno / Tahoe, including me, used to live in the fire zones and may still have friends on the other side of the hill. You can get information about the fires right here on About.com. Ingrid Taylar, our guide to San Francisco, provides us with Northern California Fire Information 2008, an in depth look at multiple facets of the fire story.