That's my brother, and the other guy on the hose is part of the family whose place the fire was on when I took this. Water was sometimes hard to come by (they ran all the cisterns on this ranch dry).
We topped the hill to this sight - flames around six feet tall. Unfortunately this grader was pushing the dirt the wrong way, you want the pile to the outside of the flames, but he still slowed things down. There were multiple blades and dozers on this fire to help contain it.
There goes our neighbor in a county six-by-six. We followed him across the fire line and went to work spraying water on the flames.
The guy you see here is another member of the family whose place was on fire. While the majority of the outside help was problematic and unhelpful, our local/county fire fighters and ranchers attacked the flames whole heartedly, as they have been doing all week on dozens of fires across the county.
A heat cyclone.
A flame being sucked up in the heat cyclone.
We topped the hill to this sight - flames around six feet tall. Unfortunately this grader was pushing the dirt the wrong way, you want the pile to the outside of the flames, but he still slowed things down. There were multiple blades and dozers on this fire to help contain it.
There goes our neighbor in a county six-by-six. We followed him across the fire line and went to work spraying water on the flames.
The guy you see here is another member of the family whose place was on fire. While the majority of the outside help was problematic and unhelpful, our local/county fire fighters and ranchers attacked the flames whole heartedly, as they have been doing all week on dozens of fires across the county.
A heat cyclone.
A flame being sucked up in the heat cyclone.
Great photos - and scary at the same time! I love our soap boxes :)
ReplyDeletewow, I love those shots of the heat being sucked into the cyclone! Scary... hope everyone is okay? And the animals, property as well?
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