Farmington Fire

This picture was taken Sunday morning by the mayor of Farmington. My friend is on the city council and sent it out. Our house is directly below the house on the left of the picture that is being framed and right behind the house with the big overhang. These pictures made it look a whole lot closer than it felt.

While Jocelyn was here we had a fire on the hill behind us. She said now I get to take some pictures of a fire! We stayed up most of the night watching its progress as it crested the hill and started moving down. Some people were very worried but I was pretty calm, being as we have easy access out and the wind was blowing against it. However I did go over in my head where everything was if we needed to leave. The street above us was put on voluntary evacuation not to minimize the concern from the fire officials, but compared to California this seemed pretty mild. It was kind of wierd to think that all I really needed to worry about was if my family was safe and then to realize that the big fires in El Cajon had taught me that. I will always be grateful to have learned that a house is not important.
The firefighters to the rescue. On Monday we were at a neighborhood Barbeque and everyone started to clap and cheer as they went down. They had been here for three days and we were all grateful for our "heroes".
Helicopters and planes made drops on Sunday morning when they could get back in the air. It had come to within 574 yards of our home.

We know how many yards because of Doug's handy dandy binoculars with a range finder in them. Jon liked to look through the extra pair and was always wanting to look through his "knockers" with papa. That was just to cute not to mention. I am sure he will be bored next time he comes and will be looking for another fire like his daddy works on.