FIRE!!!

So our September which is normally pretty slow and easy (which allows us to catch our breath, before October), was not so. The Forest Service in this area, has 10,000 acres saved for a prescribed burn over the next three years, and 2010 was the first year. We were dishing out breakfast and lunches for an average of 21 Firefighters a day, with a surprise dinner as well. In our small Cafe and minimal staff this is not an easy feet. However it does benefit us to a great extent!

The fire reviews are mixed in the local community, for or against it, frankly in the eyes of a business owner it boosts the local economy and I can not complain. We were tired after the fact though, and weekends were anticipated and needed.

The pictures are amazing and frankly take my breath away. After the first "out of control" where they brought a total of 5 helicopters, 2 airplanes, and around 280 Fighters, we were surrounded, running out of everything in the store from Copenhagen to instant mashed potatoes.

I just pray for the next two years they decide to prescribe burn in September again, and keep my usual low month exciting and tiring!

The pictures posted are from the "big burn", there were many smaller burns, of fire lines and back burns before this one, but this is the most exciting. If you drove into North Fork at several different times, it almost looked like they were fighting Godzilla not a fire. See below.