Fire in the Catalinas (61" Kuiper, Catalina Sky Survey, etc)

Another big fire in the Catalina mountains north of Tucson.  This mountain range is the home of many observatories, including the 61" scope on Mt Bigelow I used for my white dwarf photometry work back in the early 90's, and the Catalina Sky Survey on Mt Lemmon which is hunting for near-earth and earth-crossing asteroids.  There isn't a lot of vegetation at the CSS site, so if they're vigilant it'll be ok as far as fire protection goes.  The 61" (there's also a 16" Schmidt camera there), though, is surrounded by trees.

In both cases, the SMOKE is gonna be a big problem.

Take care of yourselves up there!