{"id":13858,"date":"2025-09-19T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:49:52","slug":"fire-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13858","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
\nHere are the before and after photos.
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\nThis 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.
\nSometime 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.
\nI slept through the excitement. In 2010 (?) a fire \u00bd mile SE of me burnt a drug house \u2013 a single wide trailer with additions, I think. I missed that episode also. I must sleep deeply at certain times.
\n[The “before” photo is from the Street View on Google Earth, dated July of this year.]<\/p>\n

I got a flu shot on Monday. No issues. Thursday evening, I went to a presentation about wolves, coyotes, dogs, etc., \u2013 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. <\/p>\n

I called the vision clinic to check on my glasses \u2013 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. <\/p>\n

Keeping Track
\non the Naneum Fan
\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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