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On February 23, 2007, there was a strong smell of smoke around 5:00 in the evening. I looked out into the back yard to see large plumes of smoke. It turnes out there was a 10 acre brush fire on the land just behind our property. We were in the middle of a drought. The grass and underbrush was bone dry. Since we lived in a semi-rural area, there were no fire hydrants nearby.
The Fire Department came with two tanker trucks. The firefighters were on the ground fighting the fire with shovels and bobcats. It took about an hour an a half to finally put the fire out. These pictures were taken from the back corner of our property. We were lucky...we didn't suffer any damage from the fire.