Oh, there's FOUR fires up the street?!?

One of the roofing guys might be late returning from lunch

due to roads blocked by CHP

'cause this is a 1/4 mile down the street:

My neighbor told me about a fire, so I drove to see where it was

so I could evaluate whether or not I needed to evacuate

(with 3 chickens & 2 cats, this takes some planning).

Drove to it, it looked small, and there were already people hosing it down. YAY!

View out the truck window.

So, PHEW, and thank you fire people.

There was a plane, a helicopter already flying around, etc.

They were ON it.

I return to our house (getting out of fire folks' way), greatly relieved,

& the first roofer returns & says, or so I thought, "that's horrible."

No, apparently he said "there's four of them."

Whaaaaat?

He'd spoken to a CHP guy (to be allowed back down the road to return here)

and he said that there were 4 fires (they believe set) down the same road,

and apparently there are now police crawling all over

trying to find the fire bug.

Ah, delightful.

And I must say that thinking about an arsonist who may have set these,

the first image that came to mind was my foot kicking them in the face.

Not a very nice thought,

but apparently summarizes my (most) basic feelings about this.

You endanger me,

I endanger you back.

That's probably why there's a justice system. =)

I guess I'll just try to think happy thoughts

and hope that they get all of these fires out.

I'll leave you with a blurry but I-kinda-like-it shot.

xobb