More Fire Pictures

The planes flew over our house and dropped retardant to keep the blaze from reaching the structures. The house, shed, garage, all the outbuilding etc, were covered with red goo. The one picture show a friend who was helping fight fire running down the driveway. The fire crews wanted everyone to evacuate the "hot spot" areas. I evacuated the pets, and valuables and most of the vehicles down the road to the park. Terry and Steve stayed behind to water things down but when it got hot we had to run...The guys ended up on the deck when the planes dumped retardant and that pretty much cooled things down. We spent the night at the house yet, though the pasture was still flaming in spots but mostly downed trees etc that were left to burn. We struggled with this fire for 5 days as it ate it's way down the canyon to my mother's house, my grandmothers house, my sisters house and on down past Homestead where some family friend live. Each of us taking turns with hoses, fire lines and evacuation. Then when the fire passes our home, we breath a sigh of relief and start the process of getting things back up and running. We were without power (some of us) for about 4 days. It kinda plays havoc with your refrigerated and frozen stuff!! We had to replace melted irrigation and water lines and wait for new wooden power poles etc. It was quite the ordeal. But no structures were lost and no one was seriously injured.