Pic taken from my place which is ~ 15miles north of this particular fire. Not a big fire, only 1,600 acres, but put up the largest smoke column we’ve seen for a couple of years. This particular one is a lightning strike as are the other handful we have going on right now. We aren’t in high fire danger yet but the fuels are drying out. Some pretty unstable air/weather got these going.
Thought the pic might be interesting for those of you that don’t live with big fire in your area.