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Fire Detour
Sep. 8th, 2018 09:16 pmToday, instead of working on the various home-improvement projects that have piled up, we decided to use our Feather River Rail Society memberships and go visit the Western Pacific Railway Museum at Portola. However, I'm not going to write about that tonight, because on the way back, when we stopped to have dinner in Reno, we saw a lot of smoke to the east, and a bit of investigation showed that a fire was burning in the area south of Interstate 80, west of the Patrick exit and east of USA Parkway. The fire was well to the south of the Truckee River and it was safe to stop and take a look, so we did.
( Fire Call )
According to news reports, several hundred acres burned, and the fire was not yet out when we left, but it did appear that the sustained air attack was knocking it down.
When we got home, Lisa handed me the video footage from the camera. It took me a couple of hours to extract the footage you see above and to upload it to YouTube. Our upload speed here at Fernley House is awful. A two-minute clip took about 40 minutes to upload. Someday we'll update our internet service.
Lisa was worn out from spending much of the day hauling that heavy camera around and went to bed early. I don't blame her. I'm a bit worn myself, and all I did was stand around in the sun. Glad I remembered to put on sunscreen.
( Fire Call )
According to news reports, several hundred acres burned, and the fire was not yet out when we left, but it did appear that the sustained air attack was knocking it down.
When we got home, Lisa handed me the video footage from the camera. It took me a couple of hours to extract the footage you see above and to upload it to YouTube. Our upload speed here at Fernley House is awful. A two-minute clip took about 40 minutes to upload. Someday we'll update our internet service.
Lisa was worn out from spending much of the day hauling that heavy camera around and went to bed early. I don't blame her. I'm a bit worn myself, and all I did was stand around in the sun. Glad I remembered to put on sunscreen.
