Day nine and Marmaris is still on fire

Progression of the fires around Marmaris

 The sky is completely smoke filled.  You can see little patches of the blue sky every now and then but for the most part it is all smoke.  There are now fewer helicopters here but that is only because they have been diverted east of Marmaris where the need was more urgent.  A fire near the town of Milas was approaching a coal power plant there.  All the resources have been diverted to try and stop the coal from catching on fire.  50 helicopters and 20 planes all trying to douse that fire!  Its amazing they did not have any collisions with everyone in the air at the same time and in the same airspace!  Apparently, now the fire near the power plant is extinguished but it was put out once before and then re-ignited.  So... we will see if its really out this time.  In the meantime, the entire town was evacuated via Naval ships.

Smoke filled sky

Yesterday we saw flames on the mountains again but not in the same area, it has jumped to another mountain.  There was only one helicopter dousing the fire with water as all the others were diverted.  There are fires all around us but so far the mountain closest to the marina has not caught on fire.  There is a lot of smoke but some of the smoke is being carried to us from nearby towns that are burning.  The wind has been blowing maybe 15 knots or more.  Enough to really fan the flames.

Smoky sunset

On a positive note, Uluç is putting the primer coat on Talaria today.  The painting portion of the work is going quickly so we are hopeful that it will all wrap up in another week or so and we can depart.  We will be leaving just as quickly as we can as it is so difficult to breath here.  Not so worried about the fire reaching the center of town now as most everything around us has already burned.  But the air quality is very, very bad.  We are still spending most of our time indoors to avoid the smoke but we do get out and check on the boat work progress every evening.  This tiny house is a little bigger than a "cell" but not by much!  I have never been a "prisoner" but am getting some idea of what that would be like😲.