Yesterday morning, son comes in and says someone whacked our mail box...long story short ....But, ended up with us calling the sheriff to send out a deputy...long story short....Anywho, while talking to her I notice smoke in the distance. I stare at it and think what was in that direction. One of our kids lives in the direction and SIL has a forge for making knives and has occasionally caught things on fire..i interrupt the conversation and point out the fire. We all look and deputy says, "Oh yeah, I saw that but I think its on the other side of the highway." I look over at it again and in my head I said, Nope, that's closer but we all know that fires in the distance can be deceiving. I texted my SIL just to make sure and he said all was ok there so I forgot about it. 6 hours later i'm in my glass room minding my own business and son burst in, doenst say a word and motions me to come out. He's on the phone, so he stops talking to tell me to follow him on the gator and points to some smoke....
We have not found a cause for the fire outside this plot, but decided the storms the day and 1/2 ago started it. Lightning must have hit a tree and it smoldered (what we were seeing that morning from the house) and fell. Luckily, it was in a tall trees so the damage was not too bad, but it was inches from getting into younger trees which would have been very bad. Husband, son, one fire truck with the chief and i fought it.
This is a very isolated field and the closest dwelling and humans is over a mile away as the crow flies, maybe more. There are no deer camps and was nowhere near any fireworks, although, we arent ruling that out... But the last bit of storms that blew through had a lot of lightning and burning trees are pretty common around here after storms.... 30 acres burned.
This is what I drove up to...
We have not found a cause for the fire outside this plot, but decided the storms the day and 1/2 ago started it. Lightning must have hit a tree and it smoldered (what we were seeing that morning from the house) and fell. Luckily, it was in a tall trees so the damage was not too bad, but it was inches from getting into younger trees which would have been very bad. Husband, son, one fire truck with the chief and i fought it.
This is a very isolated field and the closest dwelling and humans is over a mile away as the crow flies, maybe more. There are no deer camps and was nowhere near any fireworks, although, we arent ruling that out... But the last bit of storms that blew through had a lot of lightning and burning trees are pretty common around here after storms.... 30 acres burned.
This is what I drove up to...
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