Going up in Flames

Not sure if anyone has heard about the fires up here in Idaho but last night they burned around 40,000 acres in one day. In total the Beaver Creek fire has burned more than 145 square miles. We live in the area affected by the fire so last night we had quite an adventure.

Yesterday my family and I were out of town having a very mini vacation. My mom had a presentation the night before and we just thought that we would stay an extra night for some fun; and to get out of the smoke. We had a nice day and got everything done. On our way back we didn't even get but maybe ten minutes away until we got a phone call from my aunt saying that we got a pre evacuation notice for our neighborhood. The rest of the drive home was kind of a blur. When we were about half an hour away from home we got then got another call saying we need to evacuate. We bombed home as fast as possible.

When we finally got home we started packing stuff and getting all the animals in crates as fast as possible. We got everything done within twenty minutes, good timing. We then headed over to my aunt's. Only a few hours later we found out that we could return home... So, we did.

When we went home we decided to go see if we could see any flames. And boy could we!

We went to bed (at like one in the morning, so late!) but had things ready to go, just in case.

Only two hours later we heard our neighbor pounding on our door and telling us it is time to evacuate, now! I hurriedly got out of bed and looked out my window. The whole mountain side was on fire and quickly heading our way. I was freaking scared out of my mind, the wind was pushing it our way too. Quickly we packed everything and left.

My view after being woken up at 3am

Made it's way to the bottom of the mountain

Burning the mountains face

After we were settled we went back to watch the flames. It was burning up fast. What an amazing site to see.

It wasn't till 5 in the morning till I actually got back in bed and didn't fall asleep for a long time. Anyways later we went out to look at the now burned mountain, still had some flames and of course tons of smoke.

We are now back on pre evacuation but are going to stay in our "safe zone" for another night, just in case.

Firefighters are true heroes and I am lucky to know that we have such people to risk their lives for everyone else. What amazing people!