Interesting weekend

Pharmseller

Pharmseller

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I had an interesting weekend.

Wildfire got about 1/4 mile from my house. Had to evac Friday late afternoon.

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Priceboro fire.

Serious efforts by dedicated professionals saved the community. We had three helicopters, three spotters, and at least three heavy movers dropping retardant. Impressive as hell. Over 200 firefighters on the ground.

Got back in the house Sunday afternoon. Ash everywhere but no one was harmed and no structures lost. They figure 310 acres, cause still under investigation.

We’re blessed. Could have gone the other way, easy.




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It was exciting, sure, but not the kind of excitement you’re looking for.
 
They think some dumbass tossed a cigarette butt next to the neighbors field for this one, shit happens fast.
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Glad everything came out well for you! It’s no doubt a stressful situation when there isn’t much you can do.

Went through the same deal in 2020 with the Holiday Farm fire. I live at Greenwood, between Leaburg and Vida. That fire came down the river (valley) and split right around our place. Never felt so lucky in my life. Had a lot of crap to clean off the roof, but at least we still had a roof.
 
One of my worst fears ---> fires.

So glad things turned out well.

Donuts are welcomed I bet!
 
Sittin’ at Bar Run Golf Course RV Park on Saturday night…seen smoke… 2-3 acres quickly turned into 25 acres. Watched the DFPA put it out PDQ with a spotter plane, helicopter bucket drops (dipping into the N Umpqua), and some ground crews.

Saturday was a busy day…as an elderly couple drove off new a bridge abutment over the S Umpqua (Melrose Rd) and landed on it side…~15-20’ drop. Seems the barricades weren’t put back into place to warn drivers.
 
Chad D. said:
Glad everything came out well for you! It’s no doubt a stressful situation when there isn’t much you can do.

Went through the same deal in 2020 with the Holiday Farm fire. I live at Greenwood, between Leaburg and Vida. That fire came down the river (valley) and split right around our place. Never felt so lucky in my life. Had a lot of crap to clean off the roof, but at least we still had a roof.
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Driving 126 from Eugene to Bend was a heartbreaker after that fire. All the homes destroyed, all that was left was a brick fireplace.




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Pharmseller said:
Driving 126 from Eugene to Bend was a heartbreaker after that fire. All the homes destroyed, all that was left was a brick fireplace.

No kidding. My mom had sold her place just past Blue River a few years before, but that was a rough one to see gone. Spent a lot of Sundays there with my kids and other family.

The hardest for me wasn’t till after the fire was done and the air cleared. I spent so much time (two weeks straight) up there working the fire, but you couldn’t see the extent of the damage till it cleared out.
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Wife and two of the daughters went with me to Waldo in late October for a day of paddling, and we backsides it home via Aufterheide. That whole drive had tears in my eyes because it was the first time I’d gone into the burn area since the fire. That was harder than being in Rainbow the night it started, knowing there wasn’t a damn thing we could do at the time.
 
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One of my favorites from the fire. Certainly not because of the destruction, but everything else in it.

The night before this photo, we were saving the house in the background from the house I’m standing in. On night two, we saved the same house from the neighbor on the other side….

I thought that the fire in the fireplace was a nice adder…
 
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Once the resources started piling in, we could concentrate some more effort on community work. Since EWEB dumped the lake, there was no fresh water getting to the sturgeon at the hatchery. Another fella and I blasted the pond with 4 or 5 2,700 gallon loads of fresh water to give the old fish a boost with some fresh oxygenated water.
 
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