Posted on 08/29/2016 7:14:34 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Flaming mice on the run.
That’s fire Chief Larry Hector’s best guess at what happened Saturday evening as flames rekindled from the Frog Hollow fire that began earlier in the day.
“Mice come out of the fire, on fire, and run into the unburned stuff. And start the fire all over again,” Hector explained.
Hector heads Walla Walla County Fire District 6 out of Touchet and was incident commander for three separate fires that scorched about 300 acres of mostly alfalfa stubble in the Touchet area. The original fire was started by a combine, the second started under a power line and the third was caused when a hawk struck a different power line and brought it down, he said.
A fourth burn was a restart of the original Frog Hollow Road blaze, he said, and that came under control at about 5 p.m.
The situation forced the evacuation of one family in the 6000 block of Frog Hollow Road for a few hours, and other residents left nearby homes as a precaution, said Liz Jessee, director of Walla Walla County Emergency Management. Another family in the evacuation zone chose to stay in place with the help of sprinklers, she added.
Fighting flames exacerbated by high winds was a collaborative effort that brought about two dozen firefighters from five fire stations, Hector said.
The main fire began at Frog Hollow and Short roads just before noon, closing several roads in the area, including part of Highway 12, Jessee said.
The fires were contained by 4 p.m., with the rekindle blaze coming under control by about 5 p.m.. she noted. Residents of the community were allowed to return home at 3:30 p.m.
It's a conspiracy!
“Flaming mice a factor in Frog Hollow fire near Walla Walla”
This should be a contender for “Headline Of The Week”.
““Mice come out of the fire, on fire, and run into the unburned stuff.”
Of course. That sounds reasonable and logical. A mouse that came out of the fire. Is it a mouse from hell?
Flaming mice? LOL!
Walla Walla County Fire District 6 needs to get a new Chief and a training officer that will drill into the heads of firefighters regarding the no no’s of rekindles.
Sexually ambiguous, maybe, but flaming?
"Here I come to save the daaaay!"
Samson used foxes. The Philistines might have handled flaming mice, but the foxes were too much.
I always wanted to be a fire investigator...
In feudal Japan one warlord tied torches to the horns of Bulls and drove them into the enemy
Is there a moose involved?
Squeaking up
J.Frank Dobbie wrote of his youth during the Texas droughts. They would bring out flame throwers to burn the spines off cactus for the cattle to eat. Eagles and hawks would gather to feast on the burning jackrabbits that ran out.
I hate when that happens.
On a side note, a Chinese migrant, Ting Tang,
in Walla Walla was trying to use the Bing search engine when his computer exploded. This became known locally as
the Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.
Good one.
It is an oldie, alright. ;)
If I ever get into another band, THIS is going to be the name of the band: “Flaming mice a factor in Frog Hollow”
Mark
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