This year's wildfire season has come earlier than usual, and has been alarmingly active. Fires have burned buildings in Los Alamos, N.M., and the Colorado Rockies. Firefighters have strained to battle these in addition to major fires in Arizona, California and Florida.
Experts say a building boom along the frontier is making matters worse.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has called this fire season the worst in the United States since 1996. And it's still early. He'll answer your questions this afternoon. Yes, but watch out for bands of marauding tourists. Seriously, the current fire conditions there, and through most of Colorado, are normal conditions.