February is now FIRE TIME out here in the west. I can remember a time when fires were reserved for summer… but the environment *and* the people have decided, ah, screw it, let’s torch the joint. The past few days have seen a number of farm fires, and I heard about at least one wildfire on the radio news. Such as:
And on the way home from some travels today, I saw smoke rising from not-far-from-my-house, which is always an attention getter:
Upon getting closer (this was just a mile or so down the road from my house) this turned out to be a field fire… and a stack of *big* tractor tires merrily burning away. I don’t know if this was intentional or the field fire got away from ’em:
Very shortly after I got home a fire truck went scooting by, so, what the hell, I followed.
Summer is going to be a blast.