Day Fire
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My old neighborhood!! Thankfully, the fire just missed the ranch where John, my youngest, lives!

I've driven down the street where the news crew was. I can see the glow of the fire from my front door now. It's been raining ashes for a few days now. My best friend lives in the hills in the back ground; I lived right behind her. My family fought a similar fire in 1994. The fireman says that they have crews ready to fight the fire?? YEAH RIGHT!! Maybe right in town, but forget it if you are up one of the canyons! We had to fight our own fire with the help of our neighbors while the fire trucks sat idle on the road and the men watched. When the fire started coming down our hill, I got in my car and drove down to where the nearest fire truck was and told the man that the fire was coming towards and the barns and our house. His response? "Lady, we were supposed to be out of hear half an hour ago!!"

Men don't earn any Brownie points with me when they tell me they are fire fighters!

Anyway... just a short chapter in my life...