{"id":9100,"date":"2016-04-07T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2016-04-08T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T02:01:23","slug":"february-grass-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=9100","title":{"rendered":"February Grass Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, unbelievably, we warmed up into the 70`s and some thought spring had arrived early, and decided to burn their fields and leaves….this one was out north of town one day…I saw the smoke on the way back from supper and drove out to check it out, arriving ahead of the fire department once again. This was the first fire I shot with the video function of my newer camera….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Onyx and I sat up on the hill above the fire on Brewer Road and watched these two guys work around it with a water can sprayer, as the flames raced to the west….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…then the FD arrived with brush trucks and a pumper, which remained out on Erhardt Road and the manpower walked into the scene….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…as another brush truck arrived, one took the north side and one took the south side and they slowly made their way up each side, hitting the fire with water and making sure to extinguish the fire as they moved up the fire lines….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…the fire grew exponentially as the wind increased….moving up the hill didn`t help either….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and even though you can`t see it in the photo above, the fire reached the neighbor`s driveway on the other side of those cedars, yet Brush Unit 818 was there to stop the fire, obscured by the smoke…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and here is what it looked like from my view, without the zoom lens….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…soon forces from the other side met up with forces on the south side, and then soon after, the fire was snuffed out….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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