I don't want to bore you with my hose lay and smoke pictures, so if you're not into MORE, then you may think you want to skip, but I've laced the post with photos of really cool people and accomplishments, and views, so I think you'll at least wish to browse quickly. (grin) I continue to feel so grateful and admiring of this whole mobilized army of fire folk, with their logistics and knowledge and skill and endurance and cheerfulness. So, here's more.
Sept. 30
Our house view. We're packed in all vehicles, and ready, but not yet perturbed enough to go
Dick's house view with hoses.
The map of the fire and some details of the places where they talk about stopping the fire.
Supplies in front of Susans and Bob's little craftwork shop.
The morning meeting of the management heads at Chambers Creek.
Jeffery goes to ask certain questions.
October 2
Up behind the Millers and on up the hill, protections all along the way.
This is up above our house and the Tobin Heights neighborhood.
View of the Tobin Dump across the river from us from the White Cliffs
On down towards Mary's and the railroad tracks, which is the east (north) end of Tobin village.
The Tobin Bridge from the railroad bridge looking toward the fire zone in the distance
Artful angle of the Tobin Bridge.
See the white hose running along the hill below Mary's and Kim's houses?
And then it discretely runs back up the hill towards our property, making a circle of the hoses
We headed out of the PG&E camp and walked back to Tobin along the highway.
Helicopters and planes began to bombard the penstock running down to the Bucks Creek Powerhouse from Grizzly Forebay with retardant, in preparation for the fire's arrival, to serve as a fire break. Can you see the plane in the sky above the retardant drop?
There's a helicopter in the photo doing the drop this time.
Hose art
This one catches a touch of the actual orange color that one sees when watching fires.
Later, the wind blows just smoke; luckily to the west, way from us.
Seen from my yard
Walking down to do the Flag Raising (already posted previously) this is the view of the fire.
Hose protection
Night view of the Tobin Lodge. The white light at the left side is our Frosty the Snowman, who glows every night of the year until midnight.
What it looks like to watch the guardians in our village at night.
Update on the map of the Grizzly Bay to Buck's Creek Powerhouse intended fire line, with the fire's approach changed some from the previous day.
Here's your reward!!! The official map of the firehose lay around Tobin, with appropriate legend. Isn't that super cool?
Daytime shot of the foiled Post Office wood shed.
Foiled telephone pole, and someone changed the hoses in my art shot arrangement.
As you walk around Tobin, you may get sprayed by the numerous sprinklers lurking in unexpected places. I'd just dodged one sprinkler, when I got touched by spray from the one on Nick's roof.
I heard voices and noises behind my house, and looked out to see the crew clearing more debris and small trees from my back hillside. These are the Canadian crew, who wear red shirts and work hard.
Some of our regular day crew fellows talk with Jeffery on their way down the hill with big coils of hose. I'm picking apples for my next pie.
This is the Canadian Hotshot Wildfire team, who really made another safe zone for us, since it looks like we may actually have fire come to us. We thank these wonderful women and men for their brave efforts on our behalf. We hope the fire gets stopped at the penstock fire-break being constructed, but if it doesn't, we feel certain that all this work will keep us safe. Thank you, everyone.
New sign at the east pump intake. They have to haul gas cans down there for the engine!
A new Tobin sign, which is duplicated at the other end of town for the eastbound traffic.
View of Jackass Creek with tech and safety included.
Art shot of hoses and roadway.
Better photo of our beautiful Jackass Creek waterfall and the Feather River.
I put a few Tobin Trail shots onto the Trail's Facebook page, but I'm including a few here, too.
Brenda and I walked the perimeter hose lay for our hiking day, plus more, shown later.
There will be the reward of a MAP of the hose lay later in the post, to show what we're hiking.
Still on the Tobin Trail, but crossing the lower end dry creek bed.
I love the way the hose follows a path through the forest, with sprinkler-spur hoses at intervals.
Kathy's house is surrounded by hand hoses and sprinklers as the main line comes around the back.
The cup ditch catches any rolling fire.
Continuing to move along the back side of Kathy's house and beyond.
Running behind the maintenance workshop.
Around the water tanks and onn towards the White Cliffs of Tobin
We took a moment to brush off the headstones of our loved ones, and to share a moment with them.
Mary's house, and a wee glimpse of the hoses that go down the bank below her property
We continued down the railroad tracks to Rock Crest, which we found all wrapped, too.
Tonight, for the first time, we actually get a glimpse of fire over Dick's house. (3 tiny dots)
What fire looks like in the dark when it first breasts the rise. We could see flaring with our eyes.
Oct. 3rd
The fire has burned down the mountainside a ways, we see this morning.
Every vent on every cabin, and other fire-risk zones like the fire wood shed, got wrapped in foil.
October 4th
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