Almost exactly as carolelaine just described. We've only gotten .02 of an inch of rain so far this month with none in sight for the next few days. Burn bans have been in effect for weeks. Even so, there have been several wild fires - one 200-acre one sparked by a tractor engine as a farmer was combining his corn, another 1,000-acre one (don't know how it started), two more immense ones yesterday. One of those was caused by a spark from a welder a farmer was using to fix some equipment in a barn.
Sure could use some of that rain the folks north of us are getting too much of.