The fire season around here has been pretty tame the last couple of years. It is hot today though. So I guess it's no surprise to see that familiar plume in the sky.
I had to get some stuff done by 1:00 and figured if the fire was still burning by the time I was done - I'd chase it down. From experience fires are much further away than you think they are.
They seemed to have it pretty much knocked down, but they still had a lot of air resources in the sky. And I kinda like taking pictures of that.
From my vantage point the fire was just over a ridge. You can see they were still dropping fire retardant. It's that pink line at the horizon.
I was about to try and find the spot where the chopper was sucking water, when I see this whole knew plume on the other side of town.
So I hustle over there. Which turned out to be a very involved car fire on the freeway.
This was all that was left of the car.
Was one of these around 3:30pm? I saw a bunch of smoke was I was getting off BART. Fortunately none close to the freeway, so traffic wasn't affected.
ReplyDelete...as I was getting off BART. (And I could have sworn I hit "Preview," not "Publish." Meh. :P)
ReplyDeleteIf it was off toward windmill grade, that would have been it. My time stamp is 3:45, and it would have only taken me a few minutes to get to the house and download.
ReplyDeleteThey had it stamped down super quick.