I turned on the swamp cooler and let the wet filters clean out the worst of the smoke. We thought about leaving – bugging out – but without any information, we could well be driving into the fire. I read it.Ĭalistoga is over an hour away by car. There was a bit of information on Google about the Tubbs Fire. I could not see the fire, but it had to be near. I got dressed and went outside to see if I could see the fire.
It was thick in the house and I grabbed the flashlight and went to see what was burning. Such small concerns in a world that was about to come unraveled.Īt 4 ish in the morning, I work up coughing on the smoke. It had already been a long day and I figured that in the morning there would be a mess to clean up and maybe or maybe not the power would be on. The lights flickered and I figured the power would go soon.Īt 9 pm I went to bed not wanting to risk damaging the computer or anything else. It growled outside like a tornado and then hit the house and shook it. The evening of the fire, the wind started. 43 people dead and on Octo– 21 days later -the fire report states only 98% contained. In the aftermath, 6,957 structures were destroyed and another 486 were damaged. Octo– The cause of this fire is still unknown. The aim here is to move past what fire does so that in the future we can look with a keen eye and find a place where home is best positioned. Luck plays a role in the survival of all organisms – even man. It does not, however, mean that the strongest always survive.
Survival of the fittest is part of the laws of biology that make an organism an organism. The first rule of fire preparedness is to understand that some catastrophic events you cannot prep for – try as we may. This is not a blog about “I told you so” or a means of casting blame. I’d like to start this process by saying that what is in the past, is in the past and nothing that you do today is going to change the past. Second, in this blog, I am going to talk about fire safety and preparedness and I am going to try to be frank about what this means.
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