April 07, 2008

Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires

Or: Big Excitement at the Groovy House today.

Husband was outside this afternoon and noticed someone on the neighboring piece of property (vacant, owned by someone in Akron) burning garbage on a breezy day like this has been, on dead grass.

Real smart.

Well, the fire got away from the dumba$$ and he drove away. I know because I was watching him with the binoculars.

Luckily neighbors of ours got the guy's license plate number and called 911. Husband, a former volunteer fireman and country boy, loaded a shovel into La Tahoe and proceeded to go over and try to keep things under control. Luckily two of the local fire companies showed up when they did.

Daughter and I walked to the end of our driveway to check progress and essentially wait for the bus to bring Son home, and my goodness, what a mess that was. I looked over and there was La Tahoe, right in the middle of the smoke and blackened grass, Husband not far behind.

Long story short, the deputy sheriff just pulled away from the house. Husband gave his statement, we told the deputy all we knew and saw...law and order every time, that's us.

Now we all smell like smoke, but we're all okay.

UPDATE: On our way home from taking our recyclables to the recycling center and grabbing some Chinese food, we noticed fire trucks back at the scene of the fire. One of the two campers that the property owner left there apparently must have sparked and is now a total loss.

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