That Fairfield Freeway Fire

On August 31st, traffic was still slowing on I-80 in Fairfield, CA, in order to gape at where six homes burned down on the 27th from a fire that spread from the freeway:

The fire started a little before 4 p.m. in vegetation adjacent to the freeway before jumping a nearby creek and skirting a cinderblock sound wall, Velasquez said. The inferno hit a wood-framed roof before moving into the trees and through the neighborhood via the treetops, he said.

Boy, these trees went up like matches!

The whole hillside behind the freeway went up too!

Farther down the freeway, near Vacaville, another fire burn scar.