Dejavu. It is like it is happening all over again. FIRE
In just 10 days past the 4 year anniversary of the Slave Lake fire it is all coming back to me again.
There are 2 forest fires burning near our town and about 6 in our area. Lots of bad memories of May 15 2011 coming back to the surface.
One of the fires is right across the road from my Son’s place (23 KM from town)
It started from a dry lightning strike. Stephen saw the smoke plume and went inside and called 310-fire. By the time he came back outside the fire was 10 hectors in size.
My son and his family were evacuated to town along with all the people in a 15 KM radius from his place. Stephen’s place is right in the middle of it all.
They bought their camping trailer to town and are staying in it for now, the kids are in my house in their room.
By supper time the fire was 200 hectors. The water bombers had been flying steady at the rate of 2 every five minutes. (They shut down at 9:30PM as it gets too dark to scoop water out of the lake) As well as 30 pieces of heavy equipment were on the ground building fire guards. (Ground crews typically work through the night.
By 8:00 PM the fire was classified as still being out of control but being held.
So far no structures have been lost to the fire or to the fire fighting activities.
I am awaiting the reports to start coming in, in about an hours time.
Please pray that the get this put out ASAP.
Kimberley