We took this photo yesterday from our window. See anything weird?
Even the professionals who are good with colors like graphic designers, illustrators and architects who stay in our village do not notice the subtle change in the sky. But we are going to fix that.
Pay attention on that white and grey color layer, just above the mountains. On the blue sky 32 degrees September day with a light wind that white layer looks like a normal cloud is actually the wildfire in the distance.
When we connect this warm day context with a subtle changes in the sky it could mean that a nearby territory is burning.
OK, let's see another example. This same possible fire one hour later:
Check this photo. A lot of people here also don't find nothing strange on this photo too. They just think it's a normal city pollution. But we don't live in a city and we don' get this kind of sky unless is a big wildfire in the distance.
One way to spot fires is to match it with pantone color codes. But no need to do that. There is actually much easier way to check if there are widlfires and their location.
Almost every country or region which is troubled with fires has a website to check on real time fires.
In our case, when we look over these mountains from the window we are looking to Portugal. So we are going to check Portuguese website called fogos.pt to see the exact location of the fire:
In this video from fogos.pt page we can see the location of the wildfires, then how many firefighters, trucks, and planes are deployed. Then we see even photos from the scenes. This can give us quite accurate picture of the current situation.
incendiosespaña.es is equivalent website to the Portuguese one but for Spain. Not sure how good it is, as today these kind of sites appear everywhere because they look like they are made with AI, and they often don't last long. This one seems accurate and updated at the moment:
Another way to check on wildfires is via Google maps:
And this is one more way to spot a wildfire in the village. When we spot a firefighting helicopter with bucket, but we cannot see or feel the smoke, then we can go to the Flightradar24.com and find this helicopter. Then we follow this helicopter on the map to see where it makes turns. We should be able to see the route of helicopter, where it goes to refill the water in the nearby lake or a pool and then when it goes back to the wildfire location.
So many villages are fighting with wildfires here in Galicia, in Portugal, in Greece and all over the world. When we hear about fires on the news it means that wildfires are huge or that they are near the cities. However, there are hundreds of wildfires that you won't hear about because they impact villages and unless it's your village, people often don't care about it. We believe it is important to speak about this issue, especially because the most of the fires are caused by a man and they are preventable.
Thanks @soshizo for the help.
