Today a fire started in Pocatello and it is still burning. The kids and I went up to Century High School to look at it. These pictures really don't show the full magnitude of the fire. It was MASSIVE!!! We drove down and ate by Ross Park and watched fire trucks speed past from Shelley and the INL. We also watched countless people evacuating. It really was a surreal fealing.
The kids thought the helicopters with buckets and the air tankers were pretty cool. About an hour after we ate-we drove back down to Ross Park but that was now blocked off and the pool actually closed. Tonight on the 9:30pm news--the fire is only 20%contained, people are still being evacuated, and 15+ homes have been lost. How crazy!!! It really makes you think, "what would we do?" Being close to a mountain area and empty/dry fields--I think I will get all our important documents and papers, maybe even photo albums, and extra clothes--in one specific area so it would take seconds to pick up on the way of the house.
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| This was only about 3 hours into the fire---the fire has stretched far to the left and over the hill on the right--going down into residential areas. |
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| This is a photo of the other side of the hill--the fire beginning to go down the hill. |
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| One of the many roads closed off--only emergency vehicles and evacuating people aloud thru the barricades. |
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