Meanwhile, Santa Fe is not directly threatened; both the Pacheco and the Las Conchas fires are several miles away, but the smoke is so thick this morning that mountains a mile and a half to the west and east are invisible.
The Fire Next Time
For us here in Santa Fe, the worst has passed, since we are directly across the valley from Los Alamos and therefore most disturbed by heavy smoke and the terrifying vision of huge plumes rising thousand of feet into the air.