Fire on the Hill

A vegetation fire broke out last evening across the road.   Our awesome CDF crews had it contained before dark with several trucks, crews, 2 planes, 1 helicopter, a few road graders, and several people with cameras.  Okay, so I didn't actually help contain the fire, but I took over 200 photos.   Wildfires are so scary and can travel so quickly with our windy conditions.   The winds pushed it up the hill which is away from the houses, so that was fortunate.   And they stopped it at the ridge so they didn't have to fight down the other side, from what I could see.  Today's winds were swirling and stronger, which could have made a similar fire much worse.   Thankfully no homes were destroyed and nobody was injured.

I love this photo at the very end of the day.   Saturday night on a holiday weekend and you know where the firefighters are....they're on duty!!!