Mountain Fire

So just above my parents house they had a fire. It was from some teenagers shooting up there and it bounced off a rock and sparked a fire. We could watch the helicopter get water from the reservoir above their house. We also watched the airplane drop the fire retardant. The cool thing was my dad was the first on the scene, for those who don't know my Dad is the Deputy Chief for South Davis Metro Fire. He was on his way back from a meeting when he saw the smoke. He said the kids came running when he pulled up, "we're sorry we tried to put it out with our water bottles." My dad said it was only about 45 foot square when he got there. He could of put it out if he had about 10 gallons of water. Thankfully the mountains are still green here, and the wind was pretty calm. There was one point when the wind picked up and the flames got really big. I'm mad I didn't have my camera out than. Thankfully the winds calmed down if not it could of been a lot worse, it ended up burning 55,000 acres.

Below is a really blurry but you can make out the forest fire fighters. My dad said they just marched up the mountain like a little train, they probably got wet some of the time. Which I'm sure wasn't too bad. But they where busy all night too. I was bummed my camera didn't take good pictures at night, but the top was still burning at night so you could see it only night. And than you could see all the workers head lamps. Kind of fun.