we see a breeze here from time to time. but again, calmer than we've seen in the past couple of days. you can tell from the big smoke plume, not quite as good. they are doing their burnout operations and we've been seeing water drops and retardant drops. we had a chance to go into the fire zone and we still saw trees and flames burning and very steep, rocky, rugged, dense terrain in some places making this fire fight very challenging and very dangerous for firefighters. they are really relying on that air support in some of these areas. particularly on that northeast flank which is, of course, is crucial to protecting the homes. we saw a few air tankers continuing to hit some of the hot spots as well as spot fires that have developed in the past 24 horse and then the hot shot