doctoral candidate in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication
fire
The threat of fire is so pervasive that a siren sounds and we all cringe, wondering if it’s in our part of town.
Today one of my co-workers came into my office and told me she thought there was a fire in my part of town. I was worried. My dog was home alone and I was 40 minutes away. I called the fire department to verify. Luckily, there wasn’t a fire. However, the dispatcher said that we are welcome to call anytime because people are worried and if it helps, call.
There were 4 fires in town today – and the one in Sedona still burns.
This fire, behind my office, was started by a man who wanted to cook some lunch. He started his lunch fire and then threw the match into a trash can – which promptly burst into flames, creating 2 different fires.
Everything is kindling right now. And we have to watch what we’re doing or we could burn down the whole town.
wow … i can’t even imagine that kind of constant threat of fire, fire scares me so much! we have had so much rain that there is no real worries right now which is nice – when our forests get going, it is crazy!