A neighbor came by about 10 AM to ask what I knew about the fire. What fire? He has a poor sense of direction, so although the place is just 300 yards north of me, he pointed way to the west. I guess my curved driveway is confusing. After we got that figured out, we got in his truck and went to have a look.
Here are the before and after photos.
This building is quite old. It has a shake roof and a fireplace with an old chimney. It probably didn’t have a metal mesh screen and hadn’t been cleaned in 50 years. No one knows. Being old, it was not well built nor insulated. Last night I did not need to have the heat on. The renter- resident, a middle-aged woman, did.
Sometime after 11:00 a fire started and she and another neighbor with a fire extinguisher hadn’t a prayer. The nearest fire station is 5.5 miles away but not staffed. A major County facility is 10 miles south. I don’t know who or what the 911 call brought. In any case, Fire & Rescue put the fire out before it spread. The house is rubble. After the resident has a look for anything salvageable, all the rubble will be sent to a landfill.
I slept through the excitement. In 2010 (?) a fire ½ mile SE of me burnt a drug house – a single wide trailer with additions, I think. I missed that episode also. I must sleep deeply at certain times.
[The “before” photo is from the Street View on Google Earth, dated July of this year.]
I got a flu shot on Monday. No issues. Thursday evening, I went to a presentation about wolves, coyotes, dogs, etc., – members of the Canidae family. This was at the Audubon meeting, but the speaker was Dr. Celine Cortes from CWU. New to campus two years ago.
I called the vision clinic to check on my glasses – ordered August 22nd. I was expecting them 2 weeks ago. It appears a text message was sent to my land-line phone. It appears their system doesn’t have an alert for a non-message. Oddly, before my original appointment, I did get a phone call (automated) on the land-line. There are a few glitches to be worked out before modern technology becomes trustworthy.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John