Scareeee Fire at DaHouse...

Let me start off by saying it was 106 degrees here in DaHo and then this weird storm came up in the afternoon.

Then, we had a really scary fire here in DaHo. It almost burned DaHouse... Pam and I were in town getting her checked up at the hospital, due to a little Honda Mini-Trail 'event'. I had gone to get some dinner when I got a phone call from her that the neighborhood was on fire. I guess one of our neighbors was also there at the hospital and had broken an ankle trying to warn other neighbors about the fire. Anyway, I had just been served and got the call and had to take off.

The police had all the roads blocked off, but I was finally able to get home using some little known side roads. The main fire had already been past DaHouse and burnt everything around it on all sides. It was probably saved, or at least saved much more damage, by Pam's two month effort at eradicating all the surrounding weeds. On the only area where the weeds were not cut down, on the neighbor's land in back of the house, it burned into our little 'garden' which is about 10 feet from the back of the house.

The winds must have been unbelievable during the fire from all the damage to our house and all around the neighborhood. I will point it out with the pictures below...

Front Side of House...
This shows all the area that was burnt on the front side of the house.


Rear View of House...
Here is the back side. Notice one of our lawn chairs out there in the field. They, along with all the outdoor 'stuff' is mostly gone.


Back Yard View...
Here is the back yard with all the tables destroyed and stuff all around.


Driveway with Cleanup Firetruck...
Here is the driveway view with a fire crew doing hot spot cleanup hours after the fire.


Garden...
This is really weird... That park bench that is inside of the 'garden' use to be outside of the fence and in front of the three large planters. It somehow was lifted up by the wind and placed inside of the fence. O, and did I say three planters, well, the other one I found melted about 200 feet away...


Roof Damage...
Almost every ridge on the roof has been pretty much stripped of shingles along with other areas.


Neighbor's House...
This is the neighbor's house right across the driveway. Their dog pens and antennas and roof have been really trashed. They had a sod 'floor' on the dog pens and was ripped up and moved along with the pens. Their roof was lifted up, there above where the pens were.


Other Neighbor's Garage Door...
Here is another neighbor's garage door that has been destroyed by the winds.


And, I hear that on the upper side of the subdivision, by the freeway, there were three houses lost to the fire. When I took these pictures, the place was pretty locked down so I am sure there will be a lot more to see today. A whole bunch of our drip sprinkler lines got melted and I am sure there are other currently unknown problems that will fill up our day... Well, I must go get to it.