Brush Fire (March 2025)

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Late in the afternoon on Monday March 24, 2025 a tree fell onto the power line coming up from Miller’s Run to Robin’s place and ignited a leaf fire that started running up towards our ridge due to high winds. The first we knew of it was when our very good boy Toby started barking and frantically running up and down our access road. By that time the fire was a few hundred yards below what we call ‘Four Corners’ (about 1/4 mile from our house) and had already been reported by someone on Oak Drive (a high point on the other end of Spence) who thought Bogg’s airfield was on fire.

Three local fire departments responded, mostly from the Miller’s Run end of the fire, but also a few who cam in via our access road. They worked with leaf blowers and rakes and had put it out by 9PM when the wind died down.

But it wasn’t quite out. Toby started barking again after midnight. Spencer VFD was on the scene again by around 3AM, this time with a water truck since the fire was then nearing our road. They managed to stop it before it could get to the Shedalow or jump the road to Robin’s place our ours.

Pictures below are all from late morning to mid afternoon the day after the fire. A firewoman who came out to look at it Tuesday morning said it was likely to smolder for days. Since the wind seemed likely to pick up again, we and our neighbors spent a good part of the day using watering cans, gallon jugs and garden sprayers to extinguish umpteen hot spots, a few of which still had small flames.

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