Scary views from our yard

Today no friday findings as we had a very scary day. A fire in the mountains suddenly spread so fast that our town was in panic. These pictures where taken from our yard, as you can see the fire was very close.

'Luckily' the wind was on our side and didn't brought the flames too close. From many other places firemen, helicopters and firetrucks came to extinguish the fire before the neighborhood would have to evacuate. One very big hotel was right next to the fire and the guests had to leave the hotel.

The helicopters have a 'bag' they fill with water from the sea, fly to the fire and then drop the water on the fire. It is a pretty lousy system as normal water is usually not enough and the amount of water is very little.

And of course the 'result' a dark dry place where used to be green green trees...