Here's just a few last photos of the clean-up after the fire was considered controlled. There is still a skeleton crew around making sure things are safe for us, but the hoses and foil and all the people have been stripped away and tidied up. What an amazing experience to witness and take part in. Again, we humbly thank our protectors for our continued ability to reside in this beautiful forest world.
Tuseday, October 6.
What the fire looked like from our deck as we peered over Dick's house to check the fire's status.
Zoom-back view, with the shine of Dick's car to show perspective re: the fire's location.
Cookies for the crews and for us locals.
The morning crew at Tobin watches the fire get close to the Buck's Powerhouse penstock.
Jeffery frolickling friskily at the Tobin Dump, with the fire in the background.
Another view of the fire. The penstock is just to the left of the smoke plumes' origins.
The helicopters started dumping water on the fire seriously. This was Attack the Fire Day.
The highway was opened to controlled traffic, so we took a ride to see the Buck's Powerhouse status.
Coming back towards Storrie and home, we get to watch the helicopter dip and dump water.
Love the helicopters!
Saturday October 10
The fire was "controlled" before the crew got the porto-pots. We'd opened a cabin for restrooms.
This is the remote-controlled Chipper that helps clean those forests.
Our heroes!
Sunday, October 11
The foil is being removed and the hoses are getting wound up and hauled away.
All the work of putting it up, and now, they have to remove it all. So impressive.
Nick Oman, owner of the Maple Leaf Tavern, with a firefighter and Jeffery.
I add these photos of Trucks so that you can see how many crews assisted in this wildfire protection. This wasn't even all of them.
Mike Morstad waves from his front porch as he talks with a firefighter.
The Maple Leaf Tavern and Little Indian Creek Resort.
You can't read this easily, but this truck is from Oakland CA
Monday, October 12
I add this series of photos of this young man winding up the hoses. Isn't it so interesting? He was a master at it, and was patient with us curious locals.
Grover learns about this young man's life as he lays out the hose flat, pre-rolling-up.
And there you go. Even today - October 18 - we still have a few guardians here, but the fire event is over!!! We can travel freely, we can enjoy the spectacular foliage colors and the bluest blue skies, and we can visit our wider world (social distancing included, of course). To think that Plumas County just had a COUNTY-WIDE wild fire, where people in Greenhorn Creek or Sloat were just as beleagured as we were way down in the canyon, is a terrible reality, but these fire crews KEPT US SAFE.
WE LOVE OUR FIGHTFIGHTING HEROES AND THE GENEROUS SOULS THAT KEEP THEM HEALTHY, FED, AND READY TO PROTECT US.
Now, back to "regular" life.
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