What a week last week as far as fires goes (we had 3 fires going by Father's Day). On Father's Day, we decided to go out and try the Lava Tubes with the kids and I look to my left (as we are about to leave the neighborhood) by the mountain that is nearby us and it looks like an explosion of smoke. I then ask Daryl if that was the one downtown that started the day before..he just looked at me in disbelief (obviously it wasn't..it was fire number 4). So we go and explore it (this was at 1pm). Apparently, another fire had broken out at 11am by some campers who didn't put out there fire and the winds were just out of control and really got it going. It is now 4 days later and the fire is finally 10% contained, but still going. We had neighbors knocking on our door telling us to pack our necessities because we'll probably get evacuated it was that bad. Later that night we went across to Baderville with some of our neighbors and looked on top of the mountain with telescopes and could really see the flames going. I have some more pictures on my camera of that, but haven't had a chance to download them.
Site from Flagstaff Medical Center.
In our neighborhood.
On the other side of the mountain. The smoke was pretty heavy.
They blocked off the street because of the fire and smoke.
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