Grays River resident warns of fire danger

To The Eagle:

Friday was a very educational day for me. After breakfast, we were going out to fix some fence along Covered Bridge Road that was grown over with weeds and brush. Since it was nice and dry, I thought it would be a good time to burn to make the fence-fixing easier. My thoughts went in the wrong direction since we have had a lot of dry weather for January. I didn’t realize what I was getting into.

The fire got into the dry tall grass and really took off. It wasn’t too long before I knew my thinking was wrong. My day was saved when our Third District fire trucks showed up and stayed till everything was soaking wet and the fire was out. We are very fortunate to have a great fire department and a good group of volunteers that know what they doing.

My suggestion is don’t start any fire in tall dry grass. If you look around, there is a lot of it in the area. I didn’t lose any buildings but I found a lot of junk under the tall grass. Thanks to all who came to my rescue, which was very educational.

Robert Larson, Grays River