4:20 am. Just came in from watchin' the neighbors. Nothing goin' on so he sent me home.
One from yesterday flared up and jumped hi-way 34 and went on north another 5 to 6 miles. Got pretty close to Tumbleweeds place and I think it might have burned some of his pasture.
Don't know how many acres, but a lot for sure.
Saw something today I've never seen before. While we were fighting it, a small twister or dust devil came thru' the blackened part of the fire. Sure was glad it didn't come along the fire line or it would have caused a lot of problems.
Thanks all for the prayers. Grass will grow back with a little rain, but people can't come back.
Saddest was probably the hay that was in stacks. Heard tonight a neighbor to the southwest of me lost over 700 bales and the one east of me had huge stack the was burning. Hope they had insurance on it.
Got real close to several houses in the last 2 days, but they got them stopped.
One little girl was home alone and had a fire start in their shelter belt. She had the smarts to call someone and a neighbor to the north was up flying and reporting, so he landed and got the house hose going and made a big difference.
I don't know about the rest of the people in other states, but around here we are sure grateful for all the good neighbors who all drop what they are doing and head to the fire. We had people from 50 to 70 miles in every direction coming in. They had slurry bombers out of Rapid City on these fires, yesterday and today.
The ones down in the ceder breaks are the hardest ones to control. The fire gets down in the bottoms of them canyons and draws and you can't get to them and have to wait for them to come to you. Then you have to knock it down, before it gets to the other side. I'm talkin' places where you can't go a horseback! Then them trees smolder for days. We'll be watching the one to the east for a long time.
And more dry lightning predicted for a few more days.
Ahh, it's a wonderful country to live in!
If you ever wanted to fight fire, come visit for the next week or 2 months! :wink: