I just received a text message from Mrs. sirhc that a rather large fire has broken out on the hill behind the Encinitas Towne Center at the intersection of Leucadia and El Camino Real. That’s about four miles from our house, with quite a lot of space without fuel in between. However, here I am in Portland, Ore. at OSCON, a thousand miles from home. It hasn’t hit the news wires yet, so the only information I’ve been able to get has been from my wife. I’m told that a great many firefighters have been called out to fight the blaze, so I’m not too worried that it will become another major blaze on the scale of the Cedar or Witch fires.