These pictures were taken by me. Most of these pictures were taken in the meadow near CALM.
This was taken at the first small fire of the gathering on July 2. It never got
bigger than the lower part of a single tree. This one got put out by
people climbing nearby trees and dumping water on the buring tree from
above!
The bucket line started at the water pipe outlet near CALM. You can
see how high the flames were.
We also dug out the little creek near the water line for more
water. This was pretty close to the pipe, so we'd pass buckets into
the rest of the line from both sources.
This was the first slurry run, out of two. A dry run was made first so
everone on at the fire scene would know what was coming. Many people
got splattered with the slurry.
Here's several pictures of the bomber making approaches. I'm not sure
why I out so many of these pictures here, mostly I guess cause it was
an interesting site to see a bomber over the teepees.
We figured by the time the bomber got there, we had the fire
contained, and about 90% out. We asked that it be sent back, since we
didn't need it, but they dedided to drop two loads on the edge of the
fire.
This one is the bomber over some of the folks that had been evacuated
into the low spots in the meadow. The scrub brush smolders, more than
burns, and the low spots near the creek kept everyone below the
smoke. This is where most of the folks by Kiddie Village went. They
waited out the fire with many of the kids. It had been determined
earlier that evacuating folks through the woods was not safe due to
the winds and extremely dry conditions.
