SWA
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Some have asked if I took photos of the recent forest fires here in Paisley. Initially, in the earliest hours of the first day it started, I only took one photo. This is the photo I took of it, from my front porch. It was very small, but still quite alarming in not knowing where the winds were going with it at first. It was only a few acres at this point.
From there, though, VERY FAST, it grew in size, to where I was just way too busy to stop for any pictures, with trying to make preparations with all our horses, our dogs and any important household stuff I could pack, hitch up and load. I was here all by myself, as hubby was way down in Cape Canaveral with our friend, and my daughter in law was away all week in Texas for her cousin's wedding.
It wasn't until hours later after hubby was home, and we got word that the winds direction kept it going away from us, thankfully. After knowing that, we knew we were "ok", and all the homes in front of us were no longer under immediate threat, so then we took a couple more photos of the helicopters going over the top of us as they took water from our lake behind us and from another just to the west of us. By then, it had grown to over 1000 acres.
Then, on Saturday, we took these...
Everyday since last Wednesday, when it started, the helicopters have been out all day, every day, from morning to night, still fighting it. It has been held back in the Federally protected zones where they are limited as to what vehicles can be permitted on the grounds, so the county fire services are no longer able to assist. Only federal and state services can access the area so they are limited to the air crews over top of us and a few ground crews. It's still burning, but they are gaining containment at least, according to the state forestry guy we spoke to today out there. Thank heavens. At night, the smoke seems to hover low down on us still, with the dampness of dew points, but hopefully as dawn nears it'll lift off us again for through the day tomorrow.
All day today, the helicopters were out in force NON-STOP again, so we are hoping it's been greatly minimized as of today, but I guess as tomorrow comes, we'll know if it's still going in threat of the forest or not....if we have the helicoptors over top of us again tomorrow. Hopefully they were able to get it distinguished today though.
From there, though, VERY FAST, it grew in size, to where I was just way too busy to stop for any pictures, with trying to make preparations with all our horses, our dogs and any important household stuff I could pack, hitch up and load. I was here all by myself, as hubby was way down in Cape Canaveral with our friend, and my daughter in law was away all week in Texas for her cousin's wedding.
It wasn't until hours later after hubby was home, and we got word that the winds direction kept it going away from us, thankfully. After knowing that, we knew we were "ok", and all the homes in front of us were no longer under immediate threat, so then we took a couple more photos of the helicopters going over the top of us as they took water from our lake behind us and from another just to the west of us. By then, it had grown to over 1000 acres.
Then, on Saturday, we took these...
Everyday since last Wednesday, when it started, the helicopters have been out all day, every day, from morning to night, still fighting it. It has been held back in the Federally protected zones where they are limited as to what vehicles can be permitted on the grounds, so the county fire services are no longer able to assist. Only federal and state services can access the area so they are limited to the air crews over top of us and a few ground crews. It's still burning, but they are gaining containment at least, according to the state forestry guy we spoke to today out there. Thank heavens. At night, the smoke seems to hover low down on us still, with the dampness of dew points, but hopefully as dawn nears it'll lift off us again for through the day tomorrow.
All day today, the helicopters were out in force NON-STOP again, so we are hoping it's been greatly minimized as of today, but I guess as tomorrow comes, we'll know if it's still going in threat of the forest or not....if we have the helicoptors over top of us again tomorrow. Hopefully they were able to get it distinguished today though.
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