Everything started off as a plain old, boring, Friday.
Then... "Are those sirens?" followed by "I smell smoke..."
Being that I work summers as a wildland firefighter, I started to get excited. Maybe I'll finally get some money this summer!
So, I ran outside to have a look around. Imagine my surprise when the fire's only 2 hills over from my parents' house.
In the end, I spent about 3 hours standing on the roof watching it burn while a helicopter flew back and forth over my house to drop water on it. Alas, it wasn't big enough to have my crew called in to put it out. No money for me yet...
I did pull out my camera and get a few pictures and a bit of video though. Figured someone might enjoy watching a helicopter dump water on a fire.
I haven't gone over to check it out closely yet (it's been out for about 2 hours now) but from the smoke I could see over the hill, it looked like it started as a house fire, then spread into the brush and trees nearby.
Did anybody else have an interesting Friday afternoon?
Everything started off as a plain old, boring, Friday.
Then... "Are those sirens?" followed by "I smell smoke..."
Being that I work summers as a wildland firefighter, I started to get excited. Maybe I'll finally get some money this summer!
So, I ran outside to have a look around. Imagine my surprise when the fire's only 2 hills over from my parents' house.
In the end, I spent about 3 hours standing on the roof watching it burn while a helicopter flew back and forth over my house to drop water on it. Alas, it wasn't big enough to have my crew called in to put it out. No money for me yet...
I did pull out my camera and get a few pictures and a bit of video though. Figured someone might enjoy watching a helicopter dump water on a fire.
I haven't gone over to check it out closely yet (it's been out for about 2 hours now) but from the smoke I could see over the hill, it looked like it started as a house fire, then spread into the brush and trees nearby.
Did anybody else have an interesting Friday afternoon?
@Telthalion: Go
My Friday has been exceedingly boring.
so your parents house burned yesterday? Man that sucks. Maybe they will need to move back in with you? Usually it's the other way around lol.
I'm confused, so was it or wasn't it your/your parents house? If it was, I'm sorry.