Support Your Local Fire Department

North River Fire Department cookout rocks. $9 bucks for a huge meal to support the team. So cool.

Garnet Lake VFD has pig roast Sunday afternoon of Labor Day weekend. Support your local folks is always a good thing. They have pig roast calms tons of salads desserts. All for a donation. Also a raffle of hunting rifles. I go with my daughter and son in law who lived on Garnet Lake road as a kid. It’s kinda like a home coming for him.  

A pretty dramatic shot from the front page of our local news.  40 thousand acres burning about 45 minutes north of us.



No hazard in my vicinity yet, but there is still six weeks of prime fire season yet to come.  We had one blow through town at the end of June that burned down 30 houses.  2 large spot fires started about a mile away from where this shot was taken and torched a bunch of warehouses in the center of town.  It took out a multi-million dollar chunk of our of agriculture processing infrastructure... Created a toxic cloud of ammonia gas above town... the entire place was on lock down for about 8 hours.  It was crazy.  



3 seasons ago, we were evacuated from our house for about 2 weeks.  No houses were lost, just a huge inconvenience.  It was a joyous ending to the ordeal with an early October storm that dropped 15 inches at my house and 30+ inches in the basins just North and West of me.


Think Snow!  

That's one crazy shot with the DC10..You don't see a lot of low level drops from a wide body..

I am glad I live in the Asbestos Forrest, it can burn - but not like that.

Harvey wrote

North River Fire Department cookout rocks. $9 bucks for a huge meal to support the team. So cool.

I have a "Barton Mines Fire Department" helmet in my basement that a Barton Mines old-timer gave me 25+ years ago.  It's very cool, and looks identical to the one you can see just behind the driver's seat in the photo above.  When Chuck Barton told me about the restored fire engine a year or two ago, I told him about my helmet and offered to give him the helmet so it could be reunited with the fire engine.  Your photo is a reminder that I still have to get that helmet to Chuck.