California reportedly has 1400 fires burning..... er, make that 1401. Usually we don't pay much attention until the second emergency vehicle goes past the house. More than that went up toward the mountain so I walked out into the heat and this was the scene from the end of the driveway. Every few minutes another fire truck goes past: 7, 10, 13, now 17 (I better quit counting or I won't finish getting the pix up). One has to feel sorry for the firefighters. I'm writing this at 2:20 PM and it is 109°. My guess is the fire is about 2.5 - 3 miles from us. We see water dropping helecopters working our side and there is no wind, which is good. The smoke is going mostly up. I don't sense any threat to us.
Our daughters will probably remember the Sunday afternoon hike up to the little forebay reservoir on the top of that ridge.
As of 6 PM it is looking like they have the upper hand on the fire. We've seen a number of aircraft dropping retardant on the flanks, and the amount of smoke is greatly diminished.
5 comments:
wow, that's close! be safe...
Nope don't remember that hike, but I do remember the hill behind the house burning and Mom and I freaking out!! Glad there's no danger to you guys now. Love ya, e
The fire looks out this morning. E you might have been too little to go along. That was a hot Sunday afternoon and we did a steep climb up a fire break.
i remember (nanny nanny to E) im pretty sure she was there. cause i think you carried her for a bit and the rest of us were like, how come she still gets to be carried??
hoping that by now everything is safe again...does Alaska have so many fires?...hmm....
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