1:09am - phone call from Maureen's husband. I ignore it. Then I see he texted me too. I check the message and it's something about "look out your window and check out Horsetooth, there's a fire - it's huge!"
Blah. I'm sleepy and I've seen a fire before. But I know that he's going to ask me about the fire later, so I better go look. I climb out of bed and head to the window.
Holy forest fire.
I couldn't see the entire thing in the mountains; the neighbor's roof was in the way, but I could see enough to know I needed to see more. So like the good wife I am, I jumped on William and said/yelled "Wake up! There's a fire!"
I'm always very cautious about blowing things out of proportion.
After a few minutes of pestering, I convinced him to come take pictures with me. We packed up my new camera bag and jumped in the car.
Oh, and the wind was gusting a bazillion miles an hour. Perfect fire fighting weather. No?
1:53am - back in bed.
So much for the early morning productivity.
I saw it coming home from old town around 1:30 am. I live in the res on the southwest side (up the hill from the back side of canyon grill). Huge red clouds surrounded it. Now the whole res area is extremely smokey looking around from my deck. This thing seems CLOSE! About to go check it out in the car. It's been amazingly windy and pretty dry up here so that thing could have spread a few miles in a night I'm guessing. I hope this does not get out of hand and that everyone is safe!
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