As some of you know, we live on 45 acres out in the sticks 8 miles NW of bristow. The back/North side of the property is pretty heavily wooded and thick with brush, tangles and everything else you could imagine. It's where I hunt during deer season. I have a main house seperated by about 200 yards of native pasture and trees. North of the mobile home is about 1/4 mile of the thick stuff where I hunt. Fire burned most of what was north of the mobile home and everythign between the homes. I've got a good cushion of pasture and manicured lawn around the main house, luckily.
Jackwagon trust fund neighbor who owns about 7-800 acres that borders us on the North side and east and west of our property deciede to burn a 160 acres of his land on Saturday when the weather was calm. Just like he did last year when he decided to burn a 320 acres pasture, the wind picked up the next day. Well, last Sunday the wind picke up coming from the N/W. The fire reignited and blew onto our property burning about 25 acres of our 45. Luckily the crew at Shamrock Volunteer FD did an awesome job and saved our trailer house compound area . Took about 6 hours with about 10 guys and 4 trucks and a tanker. I'm exceptionally impressed with what they did. Can't thank them enough. Also, our homes each have their own water well. They suck for water pressure or maybe it was the 300' of garden hose I was using to wet down the structures while the fire crew took care of the brush. They also had one truck standing by our trailer house and detactched garage in case any embers got on them.
I'll tell ya, it was a bit nerve racking when I was in Tulsa with my family and got a call from my neighbor telling me his pasture was on fire along with our property. I'm now on the hunt for a good 500 gallong water trailer setup to keep on standby just incase.
Jackwagon trust fund neighbor who owns about 7-800 acres that borders us on the North side and east and west of our property deciede to burn a 160 acres of his land on Saturday when the weather was calm. Just like he did last year when he decided to burn a 320 acres pasture, the wind picked up the next day. Well, last Sunday the wind picke up coming from the N/W. The fire reignited and blew onto our property burning about 25 acres of our 45. Luckily the crew at Shamrock Volunteer FD did an awesome job and saved our trailer house compound area . Took about 6 hours with about 10 guys and 4 trucks and a tanker. I'm exceptionally impressed with what they did. Can't thank them enough. Also, our homes each have their own water well. They suck for water pressure or maybe it was the 300' of garden hose I was using to wet down the structures while the fire crew took care of the brush. They also had one truck standing by our trailer house and detactched garage in case any embers got on them.
I'll tell ya, it was a bit nerve racking when I was in Tulsa with my family and got a call from my neighbor telling me his pasture was on fire along with our property. I'm now on the hunt for a good 500 gallong water trailer setup to keep on standby just incase.