Friday 27 June 2008

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...

16 comments:

  1. Glad to hear you're save again.

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  2. Oh no! How scary! Glad you are okay and hopefully no other people where harmed.

    It's sorry enough to see the burned forest :(

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  3. Boy that was close! Very scary.
    It is a bad sight such a burned forest, but also part of th cycle of life. Forests need fire now and then to stay strong and viable.

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  4. Scary - and I bet you feel so useless just looking at it without being able to help! Thank goodness things are OK now!

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  5. OMG - that is a litle too close for comfort! glad you are both OK!!!!!!

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  6. Oh no , Star, thatlooks terrible, so close to your home!!
    You must have had moments of panic!
    So good it's under control now!

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  7. How frightening! So glad it didn't get any closer to your house!

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  8. This dry and hot weather...
    I hope it was the only one this summer in the whole Turkey!

    Glad it was over pretty soon. These are awful things :/

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  9. woww... what a scary adventure... and how frightening should have been!... so sorry for the burned forest!... glad you haven't any damages!!!

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  10. so scary! hope no people or animals was hurt.

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  11. Scary! And how sad the trees are gone! Lucky it didn't come any closer!

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  12. oh Star, i'm so relieved you are okay! It looks very scary!

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  13. Oh my, how close and scary! I'm glad things are OK now, Star!

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  14. How frightening! We have wildfires here in the mountains near Albuquerque - but I've never seen anything so CLOSE. I'm grateful that the wind was in your favor.

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  15. Awful! I hope it ends soon, take care!

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