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We had a wild fire a mile south of my place today. This is the first report of it at noon. When I saw the aircraft I went to see what Trisha had to report. She's our fire watcher, not the only one on Twitter, but for our area the best one.



An hour later she posted this report:



Then this report at not long after that:



Followed by this final report around 2 PM. This is the good news report they have it contained.



However that does not mean they have the fire out. We've been having high winds so we're kind of keeping one eye open tonight. We're also making sure that our phones are on, and charged up. If a fire like that gets away from them in the middle of the night we would get a robot call from the sheriffs office. We'd get a call to every phone in the house, and they will ring until they get answered.

We've had those calls before, and we trust them to call us again if need be. There will be a couple deputies assigned to watch over the fire tonight all night long and day long tomorrow if they follow procedure. If they see a problem they will activate the automatic phone warning system for the areas where people might need to evacuate.

I feel confident that they will follow procedure. The sheriff we have is a good one. So I will sleep well with one eye open and one ear cocked for the phone to ring.