cruppelt
Will always be FJR rider at heart
My family was evacuated from our home yesterday because this happened:
tanker fire
Right at the beginning you can see mounds of gravel for winter time; my drive way is exactly on the opposite side of that on the other side of the road.
The train with all the logs had cars derail which then hit the stationary tanker cars on a secondary track.
To start out with nobody knew what was in the tankers, or once it was clear it was Ethanol, if it was pure or if there was other stuff in there as well.
The fire crew let the first two cars burn out completely, but was able to keep the others from catching. They also fell a lot of the surrounding trees for a fire break. The Ethanol burned for over 4 hours. Although we have most important documents in only two locations, it seems it was not quite enough preparation to get out of the house in a quick manner. We will need to work on that.
I am just so glad this happened now and not in August, I'm pretty sure I would NOT have had a house to go back to otherwise. The whole area is zoned commercial forest, but since it's all private parcels now has not been logged for 40 years. Plenty of fuel for a big area fire...
I left work early and rode my FJR through absolute and utter traffic chaos (because of all the road closures) to meet my wife, kids and dog at a local restaurant, where we had dinner and hung out for a while. It is rather frustrating that although I was able to get through the news feeds that the fire had been put out, I could not get any updates anywhere on when the evacuees were allowed back to their homes. We finally just tried for it at 7pm and got through all the way, and then called all the neighbors we had cell phone numbers for and let them know to come back as well.
Makes you wonder, and I am glad everybody was ok.
tanker fire
Right at the beginning you can see mounds of gravel for winter time; my drive way is exactly on the opposite side of that on the other side of the road.
The train with all the logs had cars derail which then hit the stationary tanker cars on a secondary track.
To start out with nobody knew what was in the tankers, or once it was clear it was Ethanol, if it was pure or if there was other stuff in there as well.
The fire crew let the first two cars burn out completely, but was able to keep the others from catching. They also fell a lot of the surrounding trees for a fire break. The Ethanol burned for over 4 hours. Although we have most important documents in only two locations, it seems it was not quite enough preparation to get out of the house in a quick manner. We will need to work on that.
I am just so glad this happened now and not in August, I'm pretty sure I would NOT have had a house to go back to otherwise. The whole area is zoned commercial forest, but since it's all private parcels now has not been logged for 40 years. Plenty of fuel for a big area fire...
I left work early and rode my FJR through absolute and utter traffic chaos (because of all the road closures) to meet my wife, kids and dog at a local restaurant, where we had dinner and hung out for a while. It is rather frustrating that although I was able to get through the news feeds that the fire had been put out, I could not get any updates anywhere on when the evacuees were allowed back to their homes. We finally just tried for it at 7pm and got through all the way, and then called all the neighbors we had cell phone numbers for and let them know to come back as well.
Makes you wonder, and I am glad everybody was ok.
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Frito, that sucks!!! Hopefully the water hasn't gotten to anything.
