Thursday, September 23, 2010

The canyon fire didn't stay in the canyon long. It moved quickly towards our house. They had evacuations a mile away from us, we packed a few irreplaceable things, just in case. Luckily they had several hundred firefighters on the fire to keep all but one structure safe. I think they said they had like 11 helicopters on it and they would fly over our house after filling with water from the lake, dripping over our house the whole time. The smoke and ash was pretty bad for the week and they ended up having to cancel football practice one night because of it. I wish I had a better camera because at night from our deck you could see the entire mountainside lit up with embers. On Tuesday when the fire hit the ridge you could see 200 foot flames break the ridge. Scary but neat. Glad it's out and over.


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