The Town's On Fire

Eagle Mountain caught on fire.  It was caused by some rednecks who were target shooting at the dump.  So it was appropriately named The Dump Fire.  On Thursday, it was just a little blaze on the side of the hill.  But on Friday, it was a different story.  It came within 1000 yards of some of our friend's homes in Saratoga Springs.  Our friend, Brian and his family were evacuated.  Several of our friends and their families found themselves at the High School.  It was scary.

Here is the view of the fire from the back door of my store

Here is the view from the back door of our bedroom

This is what it looked like at night minus the lines because I don't have a clue how to operate the SLR that Raleigh bought for me three Christmas' ago.  Whatever, you get the point.  It was close to our house and raging.

Raleigh pulled out the binoculars and Peyton jumped out of the bathtub and put on her "evacuation backpack" just in case

And our eyes were burning from the smoke

But we were happy anyway

Some of us were happy and weird and in their underwear...

And what event would be complete without the iPad?  Raleigh turned on his police scanner app so that we could hear all the incidents that were going on and how close it was to us and when we'd be evacuated.

This morning, we are still here.  And it looks so much better outside.  Thanks to all of our friends who offered their homes to us.  Luckily for YOU we didn't have to take you up on your offer.