Too close for comfort.

"Brush fire in Santee knocked down
Firefighters have knocked down a brush fire in the San Diego River bed near Magnolia Avenue and Chubb Lane in Santee this afternoon, according to a Heartland fire dispatcher.
Firefighters were called just before 4 p.m. and knocked down the flames about a half-hour later, the dispatcher said. Crews are expected to spend some time taking care of hot spots and making sure flames don't start by a nearby mobile home park.
An estimate on how much acreage was burned was not immediately available. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Temperatures in the area reached 100 degrees today, according to the National Weather Service."

Above is a news report I copied from the website is about a fire just about 130 feet from our home. We live in the mobile home park it is talking about. We were about to leave to watch Nathans baseball game and as we started to pull out of our garage we see red flames shooting up over the brick retainer wall onto the trees. Sirens are all around us and neighbors are gathering.

We got out of the car and watched the helicopter dropping the flame retardant over and over again until the fire was in control. On the other side of that retainer wall is a river bed full of trees and bushes. The wind, dry hot wind, was blowing in a way to direct the fire in the path of that bed. It was close enough to our mobile home park that one roof caught fire along the edge and was quickly put out by the fire department.

It is now three hours later from when the fire trucks first got here and there are still about six out there checking the area for hot spots.

Fires is always a definite scare around here and now with the degree of heat rising into the 100's and the dry wind ...................well this was just too close for comfort.
I thank God for watching over us today.