Spokane Fires !

[Wittmann]

Well,  just got my internet back.  I watched the 2 airdrops of red fire retardant from planes Sat afternoon,  about 7-800 yards from my back deck.  Was very impressive, stopped the fire in it's tracks in my area.   got told to evacuate,  unfortunately some real tools on city planning allowed developers to put a bunch of houses on a hill above me, they had to come down my road.  I watched a truck take an hour to go from 1 side of my house to the next.   They arrested the degenerate fuck that started the fire,   yup,   arson guys  not global warming like all the idiots are claiming.  Still in an evacuation zone,  but I never left after I saw the drop stop the fire.   If I drive out,   they wont let you drive back in.   

[Butzzell]

Glad to hear you are OK.  Such a bad situation and all because of a sick individual.

[Wittmann]

True,  made  all the more dangerous   by some serious wind that day.   I was keeping an eye on the smoke  rushing  ENE  just south of me.   I  was ready to load up into car if house   caught   but I kept the roof wet   and an eye out .  Really couldn't have "evacuated, all the cars in front of m house in street  apparently took like 3 hours to get out of the "fire zone"    Had a fire North of me, like 2 or 2.5 miles away.   All the "evacuees  would have had to go noth, that wat toward the lil spokane river.  It's a windy, slow rode,  I take my NRS up that road all the time,  very badass for a bike.  SO it's slow,   the fire north was close to it.  As slow as people were inching I'm sure more than 1 ran out of gas.  you there you have it.   I said a prayer, cooked up 3 lbs of bacon for me and my dogs,  and we ate like kings and waited.  Well,  4 kings, 1 queen.   Fila Brasiliero Samson( he outweighs me by 60-70 lbs)   Cooper, a chiweenie,  Brutus and Zoe, french bulldogs.   Milo and Oscar, my cats.   I went up on my roof everal times,  actually sat up there for awhile.  Lo and behold, some sketchers   are walking around.   Well, they saw me on the roof,    I was not unarmed,  the gtf  out of dodge after I yelled at them asking them wtf they were doing.  Thing like this is a prime op for looters.  I had my gigantic pines cut down a few years ago.  Have 1, at edge of prop.  Any trees close are maples, x2,   and a cherr and apple tree,  those dont fire up as well in wind fire like this.  This house  is right behind me.  If you zoom this pic good  and see that pink,  that is where the 2 planes started there red FR chem drops.  An interesting side note,   I was on the phone with my buddy in post falls idaho.   I described the planes and the black tails,   he said he just saw those 2 planes take off from post falls headed west   a few minutes before.  pf is 30 miles from me