I only saw a bit of news while at the main FOB for maintenance I heard the fires were bad this year all around th states, any truth to this?
Thanks bro 
Texas and most of the country to the North and East of Texas is experiencing a very dry drought right now. The severe drought is unusual to most parts and setting many drought and heat related records (however the West's drought ended this year and because of the late spring the reservoirs are still full. Also, Lake Mead finaly went up last month in water elevation for the first time since I think '97 or '94 (I'd have to look the article back up, but I think they were looking at an increase of ~10% when all is said and done this annual season)). It's also been unusually hot this summer for most the country, compounding the drought, the wild fires are just a side-effect of no rain and tinder-dry brush. Hopefuly they get lots of rain in the near to imediate future, all around it'd solve a lot of the torubles they're having. The fire season hasn't even started here in Southern Cali yet but is dawning upon us as we speak. The prolonged spring/winter weather is simply pushing it back, so as our fire season is just kicking into gear we're hoping the summer and our fire season doesn't last too long and this mild weather keeps up (*knocks on wood* mid August and still not a day of the gale-force Santa Anna winds that blow hot and strong in from the desert).
