A huge swath of our dog walk area became scorched earth during the fire. It will be interesting to watch what grows next.
Meanwhile, while there were still spot fires burning, someone rode through on a bicycle. Go figure.
After the fire
Tag: fire
Walking into wildfire – video
Surreal: walking into the wildfire a week ago.
Yesterday this was a house
A bit before 10:00 last night, at the corner where Syd and I unleash dogs before wandering 170 hectares of scrub land, thee was a roaring fire, and explosion, and the end of a small, neat wooden house.
The explosion would have been the garafa, or 13-kg “supergas” tank. Interesting that it shows just this small tear.
Anyway, no one was home, and perhaps — some people here speak in a very garbled manner, and the neighbor is one of them — someone untied the Boxer dog in the yard before the explosion, though that’s a little hard to imagine. And he said that two guys on motorcycles had essentially firebombed the house.
The bomberos arrived in a fire truck 50 minutes later.
I think I know how I’ll decline to donate to them when they next come around begging for donations.
Where there’s smoke
I watered the yard today for the first time in a little while. I was surprised how dry everything was. I gave it all a good soaking.
Alas, the same can’t be said for the wooded areas east of here….
Still smoldering
Far as I can tell, all the houses near this fire remain completely unoccupied (seasonal). My best guess is the gardeners who maintain the yards dumped the trimmings there, lit them on fire, and left.
Fortunately, there’s little chance of it spreading, and aside from an occasional thatch roof, little in the way of structures that are flammable.
Some days less is more.
A smoldering fire of damp vegetation unattended on the side of the road,
an old tree caught in late afternoon light.