Strength (Home Gym) 1:00:00 [2]
Workout #2 + some leg work.
Cycling 1:30:00 [4]
I was having a nice long ride in Albion when my phone rang, and Bash advised me not to take the trails back as the forest's on fire. She was packing up our dogs and some possessions into the Bullfrog van as she spoke.
I hammered back home ASAP, towards a big column of smoke. Not a nice feeling at all.
I managed to skid out on a paved corner in my haste and torqued my knee pretty well.
In the end the fire only burnt the back 5-10% of our property, but the neighboring farm and forest look pretty bad. It seems to have been started by our neighbours to the West when a fire went out of control- on a very windy hot day.
Misc (Firefighting) 1:00:00 [1]
Spent a few hours running around with a pack full of water bladders and the Treehugger dogwash sprayer putting out smaller fires on our property, watching the big flames heading towards us. Luckily they got a pumper up on our neighbour's trails with the help of a huge front end loader, and they got it put out before it hit our hardwood forest.
Looks like the orienteering map of Palgrave will need some work!
Luckily, only an old barn was destroyed and nobody hurt, but there are hundreds of acres of woods that were torched. All in all 9 fire stations were involved. I guess I'll be driving to work tomorrow.