Brush Fire written Sunday, April 12, 2009

A couple of weeks ago we got a call late Sunday afternoon, there was a fire on Co. road 102. I didn't remember where that was. I was so proud to get dressed and out of the house and pass Kent's drive as he was headed out, too. We got to the Fire House about the same time and both got in the last truck and headed south on 80. We saw smoke and then the trucks on the side of the road just past Willie's place, my neighbor to the south. We parked the truck since it was a tanker and too big to get back in the brush and headed down the dirt road. Mike Turk, the local DPS officer, was headed out and stopped to say howdy to Kent. By then we could smell the fire and see the smoke. They put us in one of the smaller trucks with Bob and we headed out and back into my place along the south fence line looking for the fire which was supposedly crossing the fence line. We didn't see any fire so we cut the fence and headed toward the where it was crossing the fence line. That truck had 2 hoses and we sprayed and got shovels and shoveled dirt on little fires. There wasn't much fuel to burn so it was just a bunch of little fires. A log here, a dead tree there, a piece of cow poop over there. The smoke did get a little thick at one point. We had it pretty much put out in 3 hours. We weren't entirely sure we wouldn't have to come back cause the wind kept picking up, but we didn't.