The First Fires

On September 5, Carey, Brooklyn and I decided to drive around and see how bad the fires were.  Little did we know that things were about to get alot worse.  Pictures of the fire damage closest to us at the time:

White Oak Rd., close to East Mountain

A little later we saw a plume of smoke and thought it looked close our friend's house, Darrel and Elba Moseley.  And it was!  We found out that they had been fighting that fire all weekend and it came within 10 feet of their house.  We couldn't go down their road since it was blocked off.  Thankfully, they were able to get it out and their home was saved - thanks to many volunteers and the New Diana Volunteer Fire Department.  We were able to celebrate Darrel's 50th birthday the next weekend and were able to see first hand how close it came.  Very scary.