Fire on my land

[Carlton]

I got a call today that my land up by Maynard was on fire. When I got there I found the ditch in front of the land had caught on fire and that the fire had began to spread into the woods and brush on my land. It was a scary situation for awhile due to being in the 90s today with a brisk wind out of the south pushing the fire deeper into the land. Thank god for a good samaritan calling it in, the Maynard volunteer fire department and the fire crew from the Arkansas Dept of Forestry. I got really fortunate and it just burned around an acre of land and did not do any real damage besides doing a good job of underbrushing for me. The cause of the fire was determined to be burning debris from a hay trailer that had caught fire while traveling down the highway in front of the property. My computer here at work doesnt want to let the pictures in my gallery upload to my post but if you are interested you can view them in my gallery.

[thecfarm]

I will help you,just because you have a Ford tractor.   :D



 





 

You was some lucky. Had a fire next to mine about 20 years ago. We had not cut our land than. There was nothing for fuel,so the fire went out.

[Magicman]

An uncontrolled fire is a scarey thing for any landowner and it's good to hear that yours was contained.   

[Warbird]

Yikes.  You definitely dodged a bullet there.  Glad you got it under control so quickly.

[Burlkraft]

Glad it wasn't any worse.

Fire is scary...

[ely]

heres a funny story about fire, last year when it was so dry and fire was on everyone mind we had a bad fire near here. an old rancher was relating how embarrasing the fire was by how it was a raging enferno as it approched his property..... only to have it die out at his fence line from lack of fuel. :D apparently his cattle had eaten anything big enough to burn.

[Carlton]

Thanks for the help cfarm. I keep praying the hurricane would track a tad west of the Texas Louisiana state line so it could drop some rain on this area on its way through.