Fire!!!

So, I'm cooking outside, preparing a wonderful Cuban picadillo and I smell smoke.  So I thought, damn, I bet that Millennial kid up the street who just leased or bought a lot, has a camp fire going. (We are under a complete burn ban.) And this kid lives out of his car and it’s a long story but they are trying to have him removed. Well, I was half right. It was that damn kid but it was worse than a camp fire. He was burning trash!!! The next thing you know, the whole side of the road is burning and more!

 

 

 

Well before you know it, a couple of acres are now burning!!! Yikes! Time for total panic because it is just down our drive and we don’t think we can get out!!! Lucky for us, our neighbor, Curly, is a sheriff form Arizona and he drove to the club house while his wife, Tanya, called 911. Curly sounded the alarm and the Rimrock volunteer fire department came to the rescue!!!

 

 

Jose putting the water down

(Jose is one of the staff here at Rimrock, and a friend of ours. He is the best!)

 

 

I ran down to the road with my trusty rake and asked how I could help. Before I knew it, Curly gave me a hose and told me what to do!!! (Of course I got the limp leaky hose).

 

 

 

 

Pretty soon, with good directions, I got the hang of it and became a firefighter!!! Well, the mop up guy anyway!!! It took us about 55 to 60 minutes of work with shovels, hoses, and rakes, but we got it beat down!!!

 

 

Fireman Bill!!!

 

 

And of course, when we had it almost out, who shows up?

 

 

Grant County Fire Department!!!

Just kidding, I was sure glad to see them! They have a long drive to reach us and

 got here very quickly. Sure glad the are around!

 

 

 

They made it look easy!!!

 

I was glad they came and finished with those trucks. They had made quick work of it

and they dumped plenty of water to make sure it was out. Then they stayed for a couple of hours to make sure it was completely out. We were so lucky with this one. The wind had dropped from 14 mph, an hour earlier, to almost no wind at all. If he had started his fire earlier, we would have all been in trouble.

 

It's all good in the end. I'm so thankful for my neighbors and all the folks in the volunteer fire dept.