On New Year’s Day 2009 a huge fire deforested much of the area in which we walk dogs.

Almost 12 years later, in October 2020, another fire raged through.

Fortunately, many of the trees survived this time.

14 months after the last fire, last week, another big fire.

And yesterday on the dog walk we see this:

Wind from east northeast. The others came from the southwest. No sign of any activity. Around an hour later, Syd heard a helicopter (we leave from his house to walk), and this morning it appears to be out.

Almost 12 years between fires, then 14 months, then just over a week. Following that progression, we could have expected the next fire in 3-½ hours. Glad it didn’t happen.