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Fire Call

For a couple week Dustin has been telling us that his friend was going to have a bonfire at her house and that we'd all be invited. That sounded like fun, and we said we'd go. Yesterday we found out that it would be Saturday night at 7 PM. He said that they would light the bonfire at 6 PM, which sounded a bit early to me, but I thought it's not to hard to keep a fire going, so we won't miss anything. We arrived to see that the fire had just been lit, and that the bonfire was a pile of tree branches, with some brown leaves on some. Before long, the flames were over ten feet tall, and there was a plume of grey smoke high in the sky! It was huge. This was in the middle of a large field, with a hose right there, so I wasn't too concerned.

Somebody else was though, and before long there were about three fire trucks in front of the house, and about eight firemen standing in the driveway, checking it all out. The family had a burn permit, but they were supposed to be burning before sunset, and they were a little late. I think too that the fire was a little larger than it should have been. Well, they didn't get a fine, and were told to hose it down a little bit, to get it smaller. We did, and it was dying down quickly anyway. Later, when it wasn't too hot anymore to stand in front of it, we made some smores and enjoyed hanging out and talking by the fire in the cool fall air.

Posted by David at October 21, 2005 05:59 PM