Duncan Grass Fire

Yesterday was a "shadow" day, one that was not so great.  First we went to a town north of us to buy an advertised treadmill only to find out that it had been sold and the fellow had not removed the ad from the website it appeared on.  This was the second time a potential treadmill purchase has not worked out for me so I am going to take it that I am not supposed to have a treadmill..

On the way home, approaching the town where we live, I could suddenly smell smoke and then you could see it in the air.  We turned and drove down the highway where the smoke was coming from and there were people stopped and looking, trying to find out what it was.  A little closer to the fire area, we were forced to turn off as the fire department had blocked the road.  This was about 3:30pm..  we drove down another road and found that it was blocked also. From the second angle we could see that it was a lot of smoke covering a good-sized area.  I was worried about some cows in a field a little south of the fire which appeared to be from the location of a golf course.  That evening on the 5:00pm news they showed a rather large area of flames and said that it had jumped the road and was heading for a local mountain.  It was very windy and that's why the fire was spreading so fast.



They called in a helicopter that dropped water on the fire and thank the Lord,  it was extinguished before any serious damage occurred.  Today we drove down the highway where the fire was and I took a few photos.

First is where it had jumped the highway, everything is very dry so had it gone any further down this area, which has a lot of isolated houses, hydro lines and a cable tower, that would have been a disaster.

 

Next is on the side of the road where the golf course is.  You can see someone golfing today, I am sure he realizes how lucky he is that the fire department did such a good job.

 

Last is further down the highway on the same side as the golf course.  The news said the fire traveled a distance of 1.2 km. In this area it looked like it could have gotten away from them as the fire had spread quite a bit farther into the grassy area.

 

God bless the Duncan fire department that did such a wonderful job.  I have been concerned about fire breaking out on the mountain not far from where live, but I am sure, having seen how fast this fire was controlled, that they would do the same amazing job they did on this fire.