My town almost burned

[bigpiney]

posted this in the cycling section, but figured no one in their right mind reads that anyway so thought I would put it here:

Originally Posted by bluegoose

Piney, isn't there a big fire down in your neck of the woods right now?

Yes there is and it got a little too close for comfort. Scary stuff. http://www.inciweb.org/incident/767/

Luckily the weather has cooperated the last couple of days and they have it well under control and there is no longer a threat to structures or people.

this was saturday afternoon down my street at the local park where they have set up the fire operations and are housing the 800 plus firefighters:




and this is from friday night a 2 night lookingn up into the mountians (too bad I dont have a tripod or a cool camera)