About 3PM I was reading on the sofa and Mom was napping. She got up, came into the family room, and shouted "The Park is on fire!" It had just started and was coming up the hill fast. I called 911 and got the fire department going. For the next three hours the fire guys were all over the hill. It was out by 5pm, and a couple guys hung around to see it didn't start up again. Very exciting!
Fortunately the wind began from the west (left) and then changed to the east so the fire worked to the right, away from our wall. It did come close to Jim's wall near Virginia Street, where a bunch of sage brush went up with a roar.
We both mow the park out about 20 feet a couple times a year, and I'm sure it will be 40 feet from now on!
Last year I posted pictures of the Fire Department practice exercises in exactly the same place!
There is a big fire in the Stansburys, west of Tooele, and the air here is full of smoke today. I keep checking to be sure it isnt the park again!
Popperton Park fire
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Grampa & Gramma
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Popperton Park fire
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- I took this just as we first noticed the fire. Notice the clump of brush.
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- Fire hits the oak brush. Two black stmps are all that's left.
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- A little later. Note the quail family at the edge of our garden. Our yard is a "safe Haven" for quail.
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- The firemen arrive.
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- The fire reached the sage brush just behind Jim's wall but didnt get beyond Virginia Street.
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- Two trucks on Virginia, several below the park on 11th Ave. and several smaller trucks out on the hillside.
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- Getting it under controll on the east end.
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- More trucks came, including the "Big Squirt", which set up below on 11th.
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- We had a ringside seat for the whole thing. These guys are just making sure everything is out.
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- Here is a picture of the practice session behind our fence in 2012.
Russ & Judy
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sarah
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