Utterly Mad

There was a fire near our house today. Thankfully there was no wind and it stayed in one property. It was frightening seeing the dark plumes of smoke in the distance though. Here is a post of the fire lazily copy pasted and edited from our fire department's facebook page.

Scary fire today in Sandy Valley! A mobile home, several trailers and vehicles on fire, ammunition going off, 5 gallon propane tanks exploding and a 200 gallon tank venting off (you know it bad when the first in unit is reporting the ammunition going off and you can hear what sounds like automatic gun fire in the background!) The fire spread into the surrounding trees and brush. A total of 56 personnel responded to the fire. Water supply became a problem and firefighting operations had to be suspended at times. Crews were on scene for about 6 hours. Then when it was time to leave several vehicles got stuck in the soft sand and had to be pulled put by a large loader. A great job was done by everyone and there were no injuries.

Pretty scary.

Anyways speaking of Facebook, did you know John Romero has a Facebook? Not only that but he has hit the maximum number of friends on it, so I follow him on it.