Keep it all closed down so if anyone’s home is still standing the looters and low life’s can come take their stuff.
Don’t evacuate unless told by someone in uniform. Even then I would question it. My area just got socked in with smoke this afternoon. One day free from smoke, now you can’t hardly see the sun.
The area they shut down - where there is NO fire, 30 miles from the fire - is mostly National Forest. They have shut down the camping, fishing, hunting berry picking, wildcrafting for thousands of acres that are no where near the supposedly nearly contained fire. Not many houses up there, a few mining claims. The area where there is private property is open again, you can see it along the highway. I understand they are trying to do erosion protection and such where it burned, but why that HUGE area that did NOT burn? It is where many of us who rely on wood for heat get our wood!