almost had a fire on our property this week

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

so my family has 70 acres in fairplay by antero res. My brother annd I had smelled smoke on the 4th in the morning and we just figured it was waldo canon and we didnt think to much of it. durring our lunch about 4 hours later our cousin starts yelling FIRE and we come out of the rv and we see a pretty large plume of smoke only 100 feet away from us just below a 15 or 20 foot cliff right next to a 50ft blue spruce. We are lucky because we have a swiming pool we put up just in case of a fire and we also have a well. So we start grabing 5 gallon buckets of water out of the pool and run down the mountain and below the tree there is tons of dead pine cones and pine needles when we got there the fire was 15ft circle and was starting to creep up the tree. Once we got the fire out I rode my dirtbike down to the neighbors to see if they had a fire or if they were shooting off fireworks but they were just working on there cabin. So we were baffled so we called the FD just to be safe and they determined the cause of the fire was a lightning strike to the spruce a few days prior and what they told us was when lightning hits a tree the fire starts at the roots and it can smolder for days before a fire starts which is pretty scary. I can belive how lucky we got thank god we were there

[Danimal]

Wow that is crazy.

[Ronin13]

Glad you're alright and were able to get to it before it got out of hand... That mother nature, she sure is a ruthless bitch.

[Sharpienads]

Dang. Glad you guys were able to put it out.


Glad you're alright and were able to get to it before it got out of hand... That mother nature, she sure is a ruthless bitch.

Mother nature doesn't give a f**k. (you have to say it out loud in the gay honey badger narrator voice)

[Larry Ashcraft]

Pretty scary, isn't it?

Happened to us back in 2006. Lightning struck a tree on the river bottom and it smoldered and then caught fire. The fire dept came and put it out, then five days later it started again. Took out about an acre and a half of trees on our river bottom. The fire dept really appreciated the fact that we had a road right to the fire site.

[pickenup]

Good to hear you took care of it.

[revor]

I've seen fire tunnel 75 feet under pine needles and forest floor debris then pop out and start a fire.

[sniper7]

wow, glad you were there to catch it, that could have been real ugly

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

wow, glad you were there to catch it, that could have been real ugly

Oh yeah it was in the worst part of the property as far as fire danger goes because there is all kinds of dead trees and pine cones all over down there. this winter we are gona have to clean it up down there and burn all the dead shit

[sniper7]

Oh yeah it was in the worst part of the property as far as fire danger goes because there is all kinds of dead trees and pine cones all over down there. this winter we are gona have to clean it up down there and burn all the dead shit

If im bored and around pick me up! We can cut sown some trees and ice fish!

[birddog]

That's a good plan to clean it up. One of these days there will be a fire there and the more you do now the better. I burn every year and it's fun, have a couple buddies over for a BBQ and bonfire. You will get plenty of free labor, heck let me know and I might help

[argonstrom]

they told us was when lightning hits a tree the fire starts at the roots and it can smolder for days before a fire starts

I never knew that. Damn. Glad it worked out.

[birddog]

I never knew that. Damn. Glad it worked out.

Not at all uncommon. Some fires will smolder a week or so before they get going. i think the Four Mile Fire in Boulder was about three days before it took off.

[josh7328]

That's a good plan to clean it up. One of these days there will be a fire there and the more you do now the better. I burn every year and it's fun, have a couple buddies over for a BBQ and bonfire. You will get plenty of free labor, heck let me know and I might help
that sounds like a good time. If I was on yall's side of the planet I'd be glad to help as well.