Thursday, July 21, 2005
The Druz, the Druz, the Druz is on fire
Well, not really, but the hills were on fire Tuesday and I couldn't have been more stoked. I'm very excited about covering wildfires this summer and Tuesday kind of kicked off the season in the Boise area with a 225 acre fire just outside of town.
No homes were burned, no one was hurt, just good clean fun sweating my balls off in 100 degree heat while wearing synthetic fire-retardent (read: stifling) clothing and standing next a wall of flames. It sounds awful but it was a blast. The prospect of covering these fires keeps me sane after moving from a town with a murder a week to one that had NO murders last year.
Joeja and I are on the fire team together so we both got to go out to this one and it just whet our apetite for the likely forest fires to come (a grass fire is like the undercard to the title fight of a big forest fire in the mountains).
Check out Joeja's sight for more insight (ha!) and unflattering pictures of both of us.
No homes were burned, no one was hurt, just good clean fun sweating my balls off in 100 degree heat while wearing synthetic fire-retardent (read: stifling) clothing and standing next a wall of flames. It sounds awful but it was a blast. The prospect of covering these fires keeps me sane after moving from a town with a murder a week to one that had NO murders last year.
Joeja and I are on the fire team together so we both got to go out to this one and it just whet our apetite for the likely forest fires to come (a grass fire is like the undercard to the title fight of a big forest fire in the mountains).
Check out Joeja's sight for more insight (ha!) and unflattering pictures of both of us.
# posted by Druz @ 1:54 AM 
