fire outside

A small town in Wise county got scorched yesterday, due to someone burning
trash. It took out several homes, barns, sheds, vehicles.

My father-in-law just called me and said that the little town of Cross
Plains (12 miles south of him), is burning. The fire has already destroyed
15 homes, several businesses, a church and more, with 1 death so far. Last
he heard, it was still burning and spreading.

What I want to know is, what part of "burn ban", do people not understand?
Everything is extremely dry, the grass and trees are tender boxes, waiting
to ignite and I find it hard to believe, that there are people unaware of
this fact.

Sorry about you being sick over the holidays. I hope you're better now.

--
Sunny, IRPK (PK Riders), ISRA #7123
Texas Veterans Assoc., Chapter 3
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'02 XVS650A "Deerslayer"
'99 XVS650A - Joe's "Deerslayer Too"

 

Sounds like a bad situation down there. Maybe a prayer or two for rain
is in order.

We have our share of fire problems here during our short summer and I
can empathize with you and your neighbours. Sometimes the air is so
thick with smoke it gets hard to breath, even though the fires are
hundreds of miles away.

Are the majority of the fires down there started by "man" or from more
natural sources like lightening?
--


Don
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Prayers, rain dance, whatever. We'd appreciate that.

We got smoke from fires in Mexicao, a few years back, so I know what you're
talking about.

We'd have to have storm clouds to get any lightning and there hasn't been
any rain. I think we've had a tenth of an inch of rain, since August and
that hasn't been recently!

One fire was started by a spark from a train, just east of Cisco. It burned
thousands of acres, before it was finally put out last week. I hear another
one is burning in that same vicinity. There is a gas fire 20 miles to the
east of us, on Hwy 180. It was started by an oil rig that drilled into a
gas pocket in the earth. The gas fire was started over 2 weeks ago and it's
still burning! A lot of fires are started by welding sparks, vehicle
electrical shorts, house fires and of course the main cause, trash burning.

Joe needs to do some plowing but is afraid that if he hit a rock with the
plow and caused a spark, our hay field would go up like kerosene, taking the
house and outbuildings with it. To top that off, we have a gas injection
well in the corner of our property. Not a nice thought...

--
Sunny - IRPK, ISRA #7123
Texas Veterans Assoc., Chapter 3
http://www.pkriders.org/txvets.htm
'02 XVS650A "Deerslayer"
'99 XVS650A - Joe's "Deerslayer Too"

 

Well take care and be careful.

While up at my sister's cabin on Lac Sante it actually poured rain on
Christmas night. I can guarantee you rain is a very rare occurrence
this far north this time of year. If I could I'd send a little your
way.
--


Don
RCOS# 7
No Riding Today

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No, some goof burning a heap of trash. I'm sure his neighbors appreciate
his genius.
There was also another fire caused by a welder, working on a fence.
And a couple, caused by a spark from a train, on the tracks near Cisco.

--
Sunny - IRPK, ISRA #7123
Texas Veterans Assoc., Chapter 3
http://www.pkriders.org/txvets.htm
'02 XVS650A "Deerslayer"
'99 XVS650A - Joe's "Deerslayer Too"

 

lease. There were a report that 113 homes were burnt to the ground and I
believe it to be so. There were alot of homes we saw that only the slab and
the fireplace were standing. It burnt most of them to the ground and one
church was burnt down that we could see. We went to the hunting lease on
Tuesday and when we took our exit on 206, there were two cops that had the
road blocked and wouldnt let us thru because of the fires. Bad deal down
there.

Redshad

 

I was wondering where you got off to.. lol.. I imagine all the deer kind of
headed west, didn't they ? <chuckle> Just goes to show, those critters are
smarter than we are.. they get the hell outta Dodge when something like this
happens..

Glad you didn't get caught in there while it was burning up, Redshad..
Regards..

Bill Walker
Irving

 

Yeah, I saw on the news that over 100 buildings burned, plus Joe's Dad has
kept me posted. Luckily, he lives a good ways out of town but he knows
quite a few of the folks in town.
What has happened to that Cross Plains, is terrible. For a town with a
population of 1000, this is total devastation.

--
Sunny - IRPK, ISRA #7123
Texas Veterans Assoc., Chapter 3
http://www.pkriders.org/txvets.htm
'02 XVS650A "Deerslayer"
'99 XVS650A - Joe's "Deerslayer Too"