Rarely, if ever have we seen such a display of Keystone Copishness to the approach taken by these people to fight a simple and small fire, yet some 20 hours later the fire still burns way out of control.

We sat helplessly and watched as the seat of the fire, some 300 meters from our house was left unchecked until it re-ignited and blazed its way up the mountain until it took such a hold that the fire itself is now some 1.5kms UPWIND from where it stared.

Utter disbelief that no one has been killed and not more property has been raised to the ground.

And why? Why did this happen? Cutting down sap filled trees on the hottest days of the year, not clearing away the fallen debris and then, are you ready for this…..SMOKING IN THE TINDER DRY ground!!!!!!! A group of whooping and yeharring cowboys chopping down trees whilst yelling and thumping their chests, it was incredible and shocking to watch

These are just some of the images I managed to take before it got really dangerous and night fell.

http://www.lazyblueskies.com/wp/wpg2-2?g2_itemId=8786

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