Backyard forest fires

[gimmie birdies]

We have a forest fire 20 miles from my house, so there were many firefighters near by our area, and we have many helicopters in the area using our lake for air drops. Yesterday I heard sirens in our area, I said to my husband I want to go see if I can tell where they are headed (north or south of the valley) and when I walked over to the coop and looked at the hill beyond, I saw billowing smoke. We had the phones turned off and didn't know it was level 3. (The fire was less than 1 mile away.) We packed all our things in the van and were ready to flee, but all forces came and put out the fire, with in an hr. They had someone stay overnight to make sure. I would not have been able to pack all the chicken since they were running the yard. The only one packed was my white NN/Frizzle.

I am not going to give lessons on how to survive, you can look up better tips I can give. But my advice, be more prepared than me.
(house below is neighbor 2 houses away.)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We had a similar scare last year (god, it was last year, feels like it was just a few months ago.... ). Large animals were taken pictures of and the birds were all counted and we were ready to grab the special ones (mainly my pets out of the groups) and open the pens to the rest if the fire came to our road

 

[gimmie birdies]

Nespelem a town on the Colville tribes had a fire go through, I think you can look it up, not our area, but horses running down the street from the fire, someone opened the gate.