Thank you, firefighters

I went out to the garden yesterday afternoon and saw a helicopter flying in the not too far distance with a bucket attached. I watched him dump the bucket and then immediately fly back down to the gravel pit at the base of the road for a refill. This fire he was fighting was dangerously close to our neighborhood.

We got in the car and drove down the main road to see if we could spot exactly where the fire was burning. We could see it very easily from our deck, but couldn't judge the distance. Once we got down the road, we could see it was on Forest Service land.

We later found out the woman in the fire lookout tower spotted the smoke and reported the fire. Fortunately, the firefighters were able to get on it right away and this morning they were mopping it up and there wasn't any smoke.