Well, it is day 2 of The Great Watertown Tire Fire, and all is well. The tire fire is still smoking, but the giant plumes of black smoke billowing into sky are gone. Now, there are just pillows of steam and smoke that just look like clouds above the trees.
Luckily, the weather has cooperated. None of the smoke really drifted into town, so it doesn't smell like burning rubber or anything. Rather, it all went up into the atmosphere and drifted east to pollute areas that are already stinky, like Milwaukee.
AAMOF, I wouldn't even really know there was a fire near by if it wasn't for the news shows and the fact that we live about a block from the water tower that is closest to the fire. It has been nothing but a constant line of pumper trucks getting water. They even have people out there directing traffic near the water tower. These narrow country roads were not really designed for that sort of traffic. Oh well. At least at night they turn the sirens off...
I just feel sorry for these poor fire fighters, though. Fire departments from several surrounding communities are here. Watertown has a mix of full timers and volunteers, but a lot of these communities only have volunteers.
3 comments:
Poor Milwaukee.
We had a tire fire a few miles from the city about ten years ago. Yuck!
You people are really close though.
Nice clear pictures.
We're having forest fires now. July usually brings us this. There have been years that it's been horrible. We're all praying for Emily to toss some of that rain up here.
I hope and pray that everything works out well for you. Forest fires are terrible. At least the tire fire here is pretty well contained and isn't going to be spreading.
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